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expectorate

[ik-spek-tuh-reyt] / ɪkˈspɛk təˌreɪt /
VERB
cough up
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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

Eight months ago Florence was already reading, writing, and using such words as "expectorate."

From Time Magazine Archive

In the horse & buggy days, a fellow could chew and expectorate safely.

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

He is polite and refined, chews betel nut "to stimulate his meditative faculties," and expectorates on the floor with easy freedom.

From An Australian in China Being the Narrative of a Quiet Journey Across China to Burma by Morrison, George Ernest

The hotel official picks his teeth, and expectorates in dangerous proximity to your boots, while entering your name.

From The Truth About America by Money, Edward

In the middle of the street he oscillates the prosperous abdomen of which he is proprietor, and rocking on legs arched like basket-handles, he expectorates in wide abundance all around him.

From Under Fire: the story of a squad by Wray, Fitzwater

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

On the corner of 48th Street and Third Avenue, Manhattan, one Guillermo Collins expectorated on the trousers of one John Ballach.

From Time Magazine Archive

In The Electric Horseman, he simply leaned back, squinted, expectorated a few down-home aphorisms and stole a scene or two from Robert Redford.

From Time Magazine Archive

Snooks expectorated and gave a roar, which he intended for a laugh, but which made every pig jump off its feet and dive into the straw.

From The Humourous Story of Farmer Bumpkin's Lawsuit by Harris, Richard

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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