spit up
Example Sentences
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State TV aired infomercials showing animated characters advising people to see doctors if they have breathing problems, spit up blood or faint.
From Seattle Times • May 18, 2022
When they did eat, they gagged or spit up the food immediately afterward.
From Reuters • Dec. 22, 2021
Manufactured in 1904, it is a flask for tuberculosis patients to wear at the hip, so they could spit up infectious phlegm with relative discretion.
From New York Times • Sep. 1, 2021
This was 2003 and the doctor looked at my father as if he'd just spit up a hairball.
From Salon • Feb. 9, 2020
And it wasn’t even that babies cried or smelled or spit up or anything like that.
From "Far from the Tree" by Robin Benway
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
