Sample Sentences for
retch
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  • Several miles passed in silence; then I heard him retching into the bowl.  (source)
  • I would lean up against the wall and wipe my face, then the retching and sickness would start again.  (source)
    retching = vomiting spasms
  • But I only retched a bit.  (source)
    retched = had vomiting spasms
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  • Certainly she had not spent the voyage groaning and retching like some of the passengers.†  (source)
  • There it was, galloping across a balcony, a flaming, fiery cow, screaming while a Jackboot behind it laughed and the flamethrower retched more fire until the cow plunged through the railing and sailed through the air, flames flapping like wings to the ground.  (source)
    retched = vomited (spewed or ejected)
  • Crouching on my hands and knees, I retch until there's nothing left to come up.†  (source)
  • "Go away," I gasped between retches.  (source)
    retches = vomiting spasms
  • In the gray twilight those retchings seemed to echo like the calls of some rude provisional species loosed upon that waste.†  (source)
  • He took advantage of Nicole's absence to cough hard and retchingly into his handkerchief, and to blow his nose loud.†  (source)
  • My mouth filled with saliva, a sign of the retching that was yet to come.†  (source)
  • He retched and ducked out of sight again.†  (source)
  • My stomach checked to see if it had anything left to retch.†  (source)
  • It rises, a thrashing of wings, up through her trachea-until Yo retches.†  (source)
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