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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
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
Their smell made Christopher want to retch: it was like meat left in the sun for too long.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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
Dumbfounded, she stalks away and retches in a trash bin.
From New York Times ● Jul. 1, 2014
When Tenorman learns of his error, he retches and begins to sob.
From Newsweek ● Feb. 19, 2013
It rises, a thrashing of wings, up through her trachea—until Yo retches.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
She said her dog, Maggie, has even retched alongside her.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 16, 2024
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
He retched at the stink of the beast.
From "Beowulf: A New Telling" by Robert Nye
The smell was so overwhelming that workers started retching.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026
While his long-time rivals move into the next phase of their lives, Djokovic was retching at the side of a court in an attempt to summon the energy to beat a teenager.
From BBC ● May 29, 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
Imagining this phone conversation, and my role in the events leading up to it, I fell to my knees with dry heaves, retching over and over as the icy wind blasted against my back.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
