expectoration

Example Sentences

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In these times of COVID, social distancing and carefully guarded personal expectoration, this sort of spit-sharing is unthinkable.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 9, 2022

Going further, Sumner even mocked his opponent for “the loose expectoration of his speech,” alluding to a facial condition that caused Butler to lose saliva when he spoke.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

“Oh, you’re gonna spit on us now?” said an angry protester, looking up into what did appear to be a hail of expectoration.

From Slate • Mar. 20, 2016

Geronte’s death appears nearer with every revolting expectoration and race to purge his heaving bowels.

From New York Times • Apr. 10, 2014

He can no more study its deplorable and heartrending conditions than the mother can endure to have the expectoration of her child threatened with tuberculosis examined under the microscope.

From The Brothers' War by Reed, John Calvin