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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

In the middle of a conversation, he will often expectorate noisily into a handy spittoon.

From Time Magazine Archive

Third Game, For a pitcher to expectorate on a baseball to give it an eccentric curve, became illegal in 1920.

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

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 Fitzwater Wray

It usually commences with, and can scarcely be distinguished from, catarrh, except that it is attended by cough more violent and painful, and the dog expectorates considerably.

From The Dog by William Youatt

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

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

The smells of raw horsepower, burned rubber and expectorated snuff are cooked by a wicked sun.

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

The hectic fever has in several instances been considerably abated, and the matter expectorated has become less offensive, and better digested.

From Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air by Joseph Priestley

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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