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barf

[bahrf] / bɑrf /




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

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

Last Friday, Schlossberg held a rally at Manhattan’s Terminal 5, the city’s worst music venue, known primarily as a place to barf while electronic music plays on the dance floor.

From Slate Jun. 18, 2026

Honestly, I felt like I wanted to barf.

From New York Times Feb. 22, 2023

“Some barf bags are no more than a baggie with a twist tie, while other sickbags could win international design competitions. Are they art? I think so.”

From Washington Post Oct. 1, 2022

I try to keep breathing thru the coughs, forehead on the ground, dribbling spit and barf everywhere.

From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness

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

Jude barfs bright blue fluorescent barf all over the table, but I’m the only one who notices.

From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson

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

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 24, 2026

Thomas: I don’t think I’ve ever laughed during a movie as hard as when that puppet barfed for five minutes straight in Team America.

From The Guardian Sep. 11, 2020

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

From New York Times Aug. 18, 2020

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

From Washington Times Dec. 2, 2018

Mom looked like she’d been crying and Dad looked like he might have barfed, but at least they were next to each other.

From "Liar, Liar" by Gary Paulsen

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

Featuring jokes, photos, quizzes, and experiments, this book has everything you need to better understand your own walking, talking, barfing, breathing, pooping body of WOW!

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 12, 2021

The plastic bin ricochets off the back wall of the closet and tumbles out onto the floor, barfing clothes.

From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz




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