retching

Example Sentences

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When she wasn’t retching, she lay her head in her boyfriend’s lap.

From Salon • Nov. 1, 2024

Sixty Nigerian dwarf goats are taking turns crashing their horns against wooden stalls while unleashing a cacophony of bleats, groans, and retching wails that make it nearly impossible to hold a conversation.

From Science Magazine • Dec. 7, 2023

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

There was a noise behind him, a retching, breathless sound—it was Mal, trying to get to Christopher.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell