expectorate
Example Sentences
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Monday night’s miracle expectorate didn’t have any second spitter.
From Washington Times • Nov. 19, 2019
Yet these are the 2019 Nats, and they look at external expectations — and, well, expectorate on them.
From Washington Post • Oct. 27, 2019
Third Game, For a pitcher to expectorate on a baseball to give it an eccentric curve, became illegal in 1920.
From Time Magazine Archive
Eight months ago Florence was already reading, writing, and using such words as "expectorate."
From Time Magazine Archive
“Though, Lloyd, why you can’t spell expectorate when it’s spelled just like it sounds, I cannot fathom.”
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
