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The heat lingered around 100 degrees, and while Young danced and sang, she began to visibly gag and retch before running off the stage and asking for a bucket.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 31, 2026
Rittenhouse tried to keep going, gesticulating with his arms but speaking in a vomitous retch.
From New York Times ● Feb. 8, 2022
His mum Dawn Kafi, from Liverpool, said food made him retch and gag.
From BBC ● Jan. 18, 2022
We retch, say “yuck”, and back off to protect ourselves from exposure to them and their disease-laden possibilities.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 19, 2019
I retch and vomit like I'm a tap that can't turn off.
From "Born Behind Bars" by Padma Venkatraman
Diana’s wardrobe becomes a gorgeous prison, from the string of pearls that repeatedly tightens around her neck to the stunning Chanel gown she wears as she retches into a toilet.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2021
With a flourish, almost with dedication, with loud retches.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 7, 2019
When Tenorman learns of his error, he retches and begins to sob.
From Newsweek ● Feb. 19, 2013
While a fellow student retches, the teacher exalts his genius.
From New York Times ● Sep. 27, 2012
It rises, a thrashing of wings, up through her trachea—until Yo retches.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
They retched when he complained, “I know you’re upset. We’re upset. Our building burned down.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
As we walked along 12th Avenue East toward my car at 3 a.m., we passed a man rubbing another man’s back as he retched on a dirt sidewalk strip.
From Seattle Times ● May 7, 2023
McDonald spoke of the usual chicken and spaghetti at that hour, and no one retched, at least not audibly.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 25, 2021
As her husband tried to gather their belongings, the woman clutched her stomach and retched.
From New York Times ● Aug. 23, 2021
I retched until my throat burned, an iron band of pain cinched tight around my windpipe.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
The smell was so overwhelming that workers started retching.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026
When she wasn’t retching, she lay her head in her boyfriend’s lap.
From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2024
“Pepper” follows the overlapping pursuits of a handful of pepper enthusiasts, whose interests lie in the hottest of the hots, peppers that induce sweating, crying and retching within minutes.
From New York Times ● Jan. 25, 2024
Instead she found two of her co-workers vomiting, with one retching into her bowl.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2023
Mal moved away, Gelifen in her arms, making retching noises.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
