gargle
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His mash-up feels fresh, just as the bombastic score by Juri Seppä and Tuomas Wäinölä boldly borrows Ennio Morricone’s soaring horns and wah-wah-waaah squawks while adding its own gargle of Finnish throat singing.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 20, 2025
I had just finished brushing my teeth and was about to gargle, so I went ahead and gargled.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 13, 2023
The senator was referring to a comment he made at a town-hall meeting in December suggesting that a “standard gargle, mouthwash, has been proven to kill the coronavirus.”
From New York Times • Oct. 28, 2022
A 0.5% solution is sold as a gargle for sore throats, but the manufacturer cautions people not to swallow it.
From Salon • Sep. 29, 2021
Again I assayed a response; this time, there was a low growl, a hideous, rasping gargle in the throat.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
Vocabulary lists containing gargle
"Dulce et Decorum Est," by Wilfred Owen
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