retching

Example Sentences

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Earlier, while cleaning one resident's room, I found myself retching because of the smell, unable to stay for longer than 20 seconds.

From BBC • Sep. 30, 2025

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

The class, in the middle of a history lecture, broke down into a group of retching, spitting thirteen-year-old boys, with the girls retreating to the open windows for air.

From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers