puke
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
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
In the later part of this summer, there was an episode of the "AHS" spinoff, "American Horror Stories," titled "Milkmaids" that even made me literally puke.
From Salon ● Nov. 18, 2022
Nearby, as Arno recovered, someone pointed out that the cap hanging from his belt was covered with puke.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
![]()
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
She quickly passes out again when she refuses to swallow this bizarre blue glowing ball that John pukes into her mouth—it’s presumably the fake-scientific thing that transforms her into a part-fish like him.
From Slate ● Apr. 8, 2021
“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
“One dog puked up a shark toy. So if you have a dog who goes to the country for the weekend and eats horse poop, he’ll have diarrhea on Monday morning.”
From New York Times ● Jun. 14, 2021
“You puked all over the women’s restroom,” Lily said, giving him a look.
From "We'll Fly Away" by Bryan Bliss
![]()
They overlaid effects onto their selfies, transforming their faces into cute dogs and even puking rainbows.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 26, 2025
“The breadth collapse you saw wasn’t just retail puking or hedge funds panicking. It was multiple systematic flows all hitting the sell button at roughly the same time, each one amplifying the others,” McGraw wrote.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 14, 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
The other excuses he's been puking up are even lazier.
From Salon ● Jun. 29, 2023
I nodded, shoving away the sneaking reminder of this morning’s puking incident.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
![]()
Vocabulary lists containing puke
Random Word
Spin the wheel and learn a new word!
Get a word