retch
Example Sentences
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On the record she punctuates that line with an exaggerated retch.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 24, 2023
His mum Dawn Kafi, from Liverpool, said food made him retch and gag.
From BBC • Jan. 18, 2022
She’s looks like she’s about to retch as she hoists a raw turkey from the sink where she was washing it.
From Washington Post • Aug. 10, 2021
Practice tai chi, yoga, meditation, anything that trains you to see fear arising — or the need to retch — and serenely let those feelings pass.
From New York Times • Jun. 30, 2016
And the first thing Will did was to hold his stomach and retch, heaving and heaving with a mortal horror.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
