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Example Sentences
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“For nearly 250 years, Mary has played a distinct role in our great American story,” Trump declared, offering a brief Catholic history of the United States that would’ve made this country’s Puritan forefathers retch.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 11, 2025
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
John Whaite confusing salt and sugar in a technical round, causing Paul Hollywood to retch over his rum babas!
From The Guardian • Aug. 26, 2019
Wedged between Meng and Eang, I hold my breath as people retch all around us.
From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.