gargle
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His mash-up feels fresh, just as the bombastic score by Juri Seppä and Tuomas Wäinölä boldly borrows Ennio Morricone’s soaring horns and wah-wah-waaah squawks while adding its own gargle of Finnish throat singing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 20, 2025
People swallow or gargle the brews to combat routine bacterial infections.
From Salon ● Nov. 20, 2024
I had just finished brushing my teeth and was about to gargle, so I went ahead and gargled.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 13, 2023
And his voice, a heavily processed sweet gargle, sounded completely modern, yet also like a deeply imprinted memory.
From New York Times ● Jun. 7, 2022
He will jump On his food And gargle it down, Chirp once and fly Back into the wintry tree.
From "Neighborhood Odes" by Gary Soto
Perplexity advised rest and fluids, while Claude also recommended zinc lozenges and saltwater gargles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 4, 2026
“My preciousssssss,” Adam Heyes gargles in a high-pitched voice as he crouches on the linoleum checkerboard floor.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 29, 2023
Listen to how well the recording captures Mr. Hutcherson’s muted clangs and chiming overtones — along with the bleats, harrumphs and gargles of Mr. Dolphy’s bass clarinet, and the deep gravitas of Richard Davis’s bass.
From New York Times ● Aug. 26, 2016
Rahm Emanuel gargles with soap every morning, but it doesn’t help.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 2, 2016
“Self-care is important,” the monster responds in a voice that sounds like it brushes with charcoal and gargles with rocks each morning.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
I had just finished brushing my teeth and was about to gargle, so I went ahead and gargled.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 13, 2023
Then his gaze fell on my wife, and he gargled out the word “beautiful” before smiling boyishly.
From New York Times ● Dec. 25, 2020
It found people who gargled and cleared their nose with a salt water solution reported fewer coughs, less congestion and seemed to recover quicker.
From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2020
So rancid did his night scenarios become that Seamie Ferris stumbled from the bed to the bathroom and gargled with Listerine.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 8, 2018
One teenage girl at Hangyoreh School gargled with liquid fabric softener, mistaking it for mouthwash.
From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden
As I was gargling in the bathroom, she appeared at the doorway to snidely say, “Don’t drink it.”
From Salon ● Feb. 17, 2026
If you are gargling at the same time that you are hiccupping, you might aspirate water.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 13, 2023
That mentality, that medical fear, gives way to home remedies like chicken noodle soup, gargling with salt water, taking a nap and, yes, sipping on the syrupy, high fructose, food-colored ginger ale.
From Salon ● Jan. 27, 2023
State news reports have also advised gargling salt water to relieve symptoms.
From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2022
Her throat felt like she was constantly gargling with battery acid.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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"Dulce et Decorum Est," by Wilfred Owen
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