expectorate
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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
In the horse & buggy days, a fellow could chew and expectorate safely.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the middle of a conversation, he will often expectorate noisily into a handy spittoon.
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
That you married someone who expectorates brown, reeking spittle undermines your own case for just how disgusting you find this.
From Slate ● Feb. 19, 2014
This squeezes tubercular secretions out into the windpipe, like toothpaste out of a tube; and the patient expectorates.
From Time Magazine Archive
One of these straws is the man who expectorates in public places.
From A String of Amber Beads by Martha Everts Holden
On the Slave Coast, for the same reason, whenever a king or chief expectorates, the saliva is scrupulously gathered up and hidden or buried.
From The Golden Bough by Sir James George Frazer
The hotel official picks his teeth, and expectorates in dangerous proximity to your boots, while entering your name.
From The Truth About America by Edward Money
Others freely hissed, booed, cheered, stamped, applauded, threw things, ate, talked and expectorated their way through performances.
From Salon ● Dec. 25, 2021
No one wanted to follow him after he expectorated barbs.
From Washington Post ● May 24, 2016
One sniffed . . . another tapped . . . the third listened while I expectorated.
From Time Magazine Archive
In 1871, when the last Prussian troops marched out of Paris, crowds of bourgeois housewives expectorated lustily.
From Time Magazine Archive
Catching sight of the fireplace, he expectorated neatly into it.
From John Dene of Toronto A Comedy of Whitehall by Herbert George Jenkins
Which could mean the golden era of spitting, slobbering, gleaking, glanding, hawking, hocking, venoming and expectorating is about to dry up.
From Washington Times ● May 10, 2020
You must replace this habit with drinking water or snapping a rubber band on your wrist or perhaps expectorating into a nearby spittoon.
From New York Times ● Dec. 14, 2018
“A land of expectorating cowpokes!” he cries when Jefferson identifies himself as the country’s former president.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 5, 2016
By the end of their sojourn they would be, ideally, clearing their noses without hankies, expectorating on to the pampas, and cleaning their teeth with very big knives, while cursing in idiomatic Spanish.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 1, 2014
I hear him in the basement, expectorating back to a vuvv language soundtrack.
From "Landscape with Invisible Hand" by M.T. Anderson
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