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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’ve had hiccups several times since then and have discovered that a quick gargle with water absolutely stops them.

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

Anti-vaccine advocates have promoted Betadine, a povidone-iodine antiseptic used to clean cuts or as a gargle for sore throats.

From Salon ● Dec. 9, 2021

Peach cleared his throat in a great gargle.

From Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles

Perplexity advised rest and fluids, while Claude also recommended zinc lozenges and saltwater gargles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 4, 2026

“My preciousssssss,” Adam Heyes gargles in a high-pitched voice as he crouches on the linoleum checkerboard floor.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 29, 2023

Listen to how well the recording captures Mr. Hutcherson’s muted clangs and chiming overtones — along with the bleats, harrumphs and gargles of Mr. Dolphy’s bass clarinet, and the deep gravitas of Richard Davis’s bass.

From New York Times ● Aug. 26, 2016

Rahm Emanuel gargles with soap every morning, but it doesn’t help.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 2, 2016

He gargles with camomile tea, coats the roof of his mouth with a tincture of myrrh and rubs Mentholatum over, his chest, nose, gums and tongue.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank

I had just finished brushing my teeth and was about to gargle, so I went ahead and gargled.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 13, 2023

Then his gaze fell on my wife, and he gargled out the word “beautiful” before smiling boyishly.

From New York Times ● Dec. 25, 2020

It found people who gargled and cleared their nose with a salt water solution reported fewer coughs, less congestion and seemed to recover quicker.

From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2020

So rancid did his night scenarios become that Seamie Ferris stumbled from the bed to the bathroom and gargled with Listerine.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 8, 2018

I was crouched and still upon the floor; not moving except to heave my breaths, which gargled in the mess I had coughed into the mask.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson

As I was gargling in the bathroom, she appeared at the doorway to snidely say, “Don’t drink it.”

From Salon ● Feb. 17, 2026

First, internet healers falsely suggested that gargling salt water and vinegar could prevent a coronavirus infection.

From Salon ● Apr. 27, 2024

A health official explained pandemic responses on state TV, while state newspapers have churned out articles on how to deal with fever, including gargling with saltwater and drinking honey or willow leaf tea.

From Seattle Times ● May 27, 2022

Some studies suggest gargling and nasal rinses with salt water combat viruses that cause the common cold.

From BBC ● May 19, 2022

“He sounds like he’s gargling with words,” she made fun.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez