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Example Sentences

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The heat lingered around 100 degrees, and while Young danced and sang, she began to visibly gag and retch before running off the stage and asking for a bucket.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 31, 2026

Rittenhouse tried to keep going, gesticulating with his arms but speaking in a vomitous retch.

From New York Times • Feb. 8, 2022

His mum Dawn Kafi, from Liverpool, said food made him retch and gag.

From BBC • Jan. 18, 2022

She’s looks like she’s about to retch as she hoists a raw turkey from the sink where she was washing it.

From Washington Post • Aug. 10, 2021

And the dust made him cough and retch; in his turning the center of the whole earth shifted, making of space a sheer void and a mockery of order, and balance, and time.

From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin