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Example Sentences

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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

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

But they’re also 4-3 against the three worst teams in the Eastern Conference, and if you didn’t retch a little during that double-digit loss in Atlanta, your stomach is stronger than mine.

From Washington Post • Jan. 18, 2018

Crouching on my hands and knees, I retch until there's nothing left to come up.

From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins