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[bahrf] / bɑrf /




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“They were going around fanning people, handing out barf bags left and right,” she said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

Honestly, I felt like I wanted to barf.

From New York Times ● Feb. 22, 2023

Rehearsals would have been punishing even for someone who wasn’t presumably trying to navigate them while clutching a first-trimester barf bag.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 13, 2023

Or like I can’t imagine not experiencing — and don’t barf — but not experiencing the Scholastic Book Fair.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 15, 2022

I was trying not to barf on his picnic table.

From "Lawn Boy Returns" by Gary Paulsen

The exhibition’s pneumatic tube busting through digital walls is its own such raucous canal, although here it backs up and barfs with a decidedly cynical edge.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 29, 2022

Then a chubby fellow wearing sunglasses and a red sleeveless Q-Anon T-Shirt barfs brown liquid all over a picnic table.

From Washington Times ● Feb. 23, 2022

These are not polite, quiet pukes, though, but rather booming, bellowing barfs.

From Newsweek ● Mar. 23, 2015

"But what she really likes is the way he barfs."

From The Guardian ● Apr. 7, 2013

I chomp my sandwich and it barfs mustard on my shirt.

From "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson

Then Holland got up to snap a photo with Bernthal and Evans and barfed on the floor.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026

I think the zeitgeist barfed all this stuff up at the same time.

From New York Times ● Aug. 18, 2020

“We were in Cabo once and we went deep-sea fishing. You remember that? How I barfed all over the deck?”

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 24, 2019

A buffoon who barfed in the lap of the Japanese prime minister during a state dinner.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 2, 2018

“Hunh! You, uh, look like a planktonburger that’s been, uh, barfed up by a seagull and, uh, left out in the sun,” said Ton-Ton in an unusual flight of poetry.

From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer

One reason I can confidently assert that she's not as dumb as she acts is she's undeniably swift when barfing up bad faith retorts, usually to innocent questions she's just pretending are "attacks."

From Salon ● Jun. 23, 2025

You can’t shower, and microgravity prevents digestive gases from rising out of the stew of other juices in your stomach and intestines, making it hard to belch without barfing.

From New York Times ● Nov. 12, 2023

After that game, Hawkins revealed the components of his final meal before the barfing began: steak, macaroni and cheese, mashed potatoes and calamari.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 7, 2023

This isn’t world building; it’s more like world barfing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2023

I felt so bad for you, especially since you’d been barfing all morning.

From "P.S. I Miss You" by Jen Petro-Roy




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