puke
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It’s going to be a long, hot summer for getting COVID, the measles, and milk-borne puke diseases!
From Slate ● Apr. 26, 2025
I was telling my caddie Austin that I felt pretty calm coming down the stretch and he said he was about to puke on the 18th tee!
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2024
“Just remember if everything hurts and you want to puke, you’re doing it right,” an instructor helpfully tells him.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 17, 2024
The scene is bookended by puke and social/professional humiliation, as the extremely Americanized Audrey struggles to keep down Thousand Year Egg shots, nevermind her guilt about being unable to adequately assimilate into Chinese culture.
From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2023
With other students gathering around us, whispering, my stomach tightens, a little puke comes up, burning my throat.
From "Free Lunch" by Rex Ogle
The puteketeke, a bird that pukes, grunts, growls and has bizarre mating rituals, won New Zealand’s bird of the century title in a competition where American-British comedian John Oliver's involvement has ruffled some local feathers.
From Reuters ● Nov. 20, 2023
She aspires to be a newscaster but is so camera shy she spectacularly pukes when the red light goes on.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 1, 2023
“We were talking last night about how everything the baby does — even if it pukes everywhere — you say, ‘Good job!’”
From New York Times ● Jan. 2, 2019
“That’s two pukes per trip, three to four trips per year. He is a pro at using a gallon-sized Ziploc bag. No mess!”
From Slate ● May 16, 2018
“If anyone pukes, the other squadron wins,” Bull shouted above the din.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
“I about puked when I saw number 13,” Street said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2026
Nobody puked during one of the slasher films, and the eccentric local we refer to as “the velvet suit guy” behaved himself, for the most part.
From Salon ● Apr. 8, 2024
Some reports indicate that he puked more than once.
From New York Times ● Jul. 1, 2023
Remember when Lucius Fox puked on the field in April, perhaps sensing what was to come?
From Washington Post ● Oct. 5, 2022
He stood up and ran back to the front door, getting outside just before he puked.
From "We'll Fly Away" by Bryan Bliss
The sellers are winners taking profits at prices of $90,000-plus, not losers puking at the bottom.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 17, 2025
During their first conversation another lady starts puking everywhere.
From Salon ● Apr. 8, 2024
Uber and Lyft charge riders from $25 to $150 in cleaning fees for puking incidents, according to a driver writing on Harry Campbell’s the Rideshare Guy website.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2023
“If somebody is convulsing or puking in a congregate setting, it’s noticeable,” he said.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 11, 2023
Then I picture myself puking all over Trub in the cramped guardhouse.
From "Dragons in a Bag" by Zetta Elliott
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