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Example Sentences
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On the record she punctuates that line with an exaggerated retch.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 24, 2023
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
So far he had not lurched off to the woods to retch, but he had not so much as glanced at the dead men either.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
