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
She’d never danced in front of anyone since the bhangra puke fiasco.
From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon
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
I rake a mountain into the front yard and there are still more, like the earth pukes up leaf gunk when I’m not looking.
From "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson
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
During the “free fall,” I did a very-not-me, mini fist bump to the cameraman and then nearly puked when the parachute opened.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2022
That’s when I caught a case of severe norovirus and puked so hard that my water broke.
From Slate ● Jan. 13, 2022
“Last time I ate it, I puked my guts out.”
From New York Times ● Jun. 19, 2021
Just after we reached the bridge, Takumi stopped, said “uh-oh,” got on his hands and knees, and puked a volcano of yellow and pink.
From "Looking for Alaska" by John Green
The sellers are winners taking profits at prices of $90,000-plus, not losers puking at the bottom.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 17, 2025
Their top red-zone target was limited, and their defensive leader, Kamari Ramsey, was up all night puking.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2025
“They are weird puking birds with colorful mullets. What’s not to love here?”
From Salon ● Nov. 15, 2023
“If somebody is convulsing or puking in a congregate setting, it’s noticeable,” he said.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 11, 2023
I heard footsteps thunder, and soon saw my brother and sisters staggering through the door, gasping for air and puking all over the place.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
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