puke
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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
My kids were far away, in Los Angeles, and I was missing them so much I wanted to puke.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 7, 2023
“Nothing like a good puke to make you feel alive again,” I said.
From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith
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
A scene or two later, the woman has come down with a sudden case of the pukes.
From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2019
“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
“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
“Yeah. Well. I puked all over my other clothes.”
From "We'll Fly Away" by Bryan Bliss
She asks her daughter to call her, even if she is "puking up every warning that I gave you," and asks her to "never let shame stop you reaching for your phone".
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
The sellers are winners taking profits at prices of $90,000-plus, not losers puking at the bottom.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 17, 2025
Oliver described pūteketeke, which number less than 1,000 in New Zealand and are also known as the Australasian crested grebe, as “weird, puking birds with colorful mullets.”
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 13, 2023
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
I cover my mouth to keep from puking.
From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas
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