retching

Example Sentences

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The smell was so overwhelming that workers started retching.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 16, 2026

Instead she found two of her co-workers vomiting, with one retching into her bowl.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 22, 2023

Ms Ormerod said her father came to the door saying: "I really don't feel very well," with him retching and screwing his face up.

From BBC • Nov. 7, 2023

My husband and I had hoped for this pregnancy, but at that point, part of me thought a miscarriage would at least end the retching.

From Salon • Jan. 18, 2023

We proceeded past it retching, Olakunde muttering prayers.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson