puke
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It’s going to be a long, hot summer for getting COVID, the measles, and milk-borne puke diseases!
From Slate ● Apr. 26, 2025
I was telling my caddie Austin that I felt pretty calm coming down the stretch and he said he was about to puke on the 18th tee!
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2024
Cleaning up after the birds is an awful job: “Two to 3 inches of guano, these birds puke a lot, you get your flies, maggots — it makes you gag,” McFadden said.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 21, 2024
Guy ran flat-out for 200 yards, so full of primal terror that a fountain of puke started erupting out of his guts all over the fairway as he was running.
From Salon ● Nov. 13, 2023
I don’t know if I wanna puke or run into that studio.
From "On the Come Up" by Angie Thomas
The puteketeke, a bird that pukes, grunts, growls and has bizarre mating rituals, won New Zealand’s bird of the century title in a competition where American-British comedian John Oliver's involvement has ruffled some local feathers.
From Reuters ● Nov. 20, 2023
She aspires to be a newscaster but is so camera shy she spectacularly pukes when the red light goes on.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 1, 2023
She quickly passes out again when she refuses to swallow this bizarre blue glowing ball that John pukes into her mouth—it’s presumably the fake-scientific thing that transforms her into a part-fish like him.
From Slate ● Apr. 8, 2021
A scene or two later, the woman has come down with a sudden case of the pukes.
From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2019
“If anyone pukes, the other squadron wins,” Bull shouted above the din.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
“I about puked when I saw number 13,” Street said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2026
Nobody puked during one of the slasher films, and the eccentric local we refer to as “the velvet suit guy” behaved himself, for the most part.
From Salon ● Apr. 8, 2024
“Even a couple days after, he grabbed his head and said it was too full of thoughts. And then he puked everywhere.”
From Washington Post ● Apr. 1, 2023
That’s when I caught a case of severe norovirus and puked so hard that my water broke.
From Slate ● Jan. 13, 2022
He felt so small here, puked up on a remote forgotten shore and left to die.
From "Touching Spirit Bear" by Ben Mikaelsen
She asks her daughter to call her, even if she is "puking up every warning that I gave you," and asks her to "never let shame stop you reaching for your phone".
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
They overlaid effects onto their selfies, transforming their faces into cute dogs and even puking rainbows.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 26, 2025
“The breadth collapse you saw wasn’t just retail puking or hedge funds panicking. It was multiple systematic flows all hitting the sell button at roughly the same time, each one amplifying the others,” McGraw wrote.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 14, 2025
During their first conversation another lady starts puking everywhere.
From Salon ● Apr. 8, 2024
But he knew how to keep everybody together and motivated, which could get hard when you're on the side puking your guts out.
From "Ghost" by Jason Reynolds
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