gargle

His mash-up feels fresh, just as the bombastic score by Juri Seppä and Tuomas Wäinölä boldly borrows Ennio Morricone’s soaring horns and wah-wah-waaah squawks while adding its own gargle of Finnish throat singing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 20, 2025

People swallow or gargle the brews to combat routine bacterial infections.

From Salon ● Nov. 20, 2024

I’ve had hiccups several times since then and have discovered that a quick gargle with water absolutely stops them.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 13, 2023

"I'm now going to go home and gargle some honey."

From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2023

Peach cleared his throat in a great gargle.

From Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles

Perplexity advised rest and fluids, while Claude also recommended zinc lozenges and saltwater gargles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 4, 2026

“My preciousssssss,” Adam Heyes gargles in a high-pitched voice as he crouches on the linoleum checkerboard floor.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 29, 2023

Listen to how well the recording captures Mr. Hutcherson’s muted clangs and chiming overtones — along with the bleats, harrumphs and gargles of Mr. Dolphy’s bass clarinet, and the deep gravitas of Richard Davis’s bass.

From New York Times ● Aug. 26, 2016

Rahm Emanuel gargles with soap every morning, but it doesn’t help.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 2, 2016

I shouted, “They were never your family,” but it sounded like gargles and whimpers.

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri

I had just finished brushing my teeth and was about to gargle, so I went ahead and gargled.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 13, 2023

It found people who gargled and cleared their nose with a salt water solution reported fewer coughs, less congestion and seemed to recover quicker.

From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2020

It’s a fun, loose record stuffed with twisting and vibrating electronics that shifts tonally from pop-heavy melodies to erratic heavy clangs, as Smith’s voice wriggles around from gargled snarl to smoothed-out croon.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 25, 2020

So rancid did his night scenarios become that Seamie Ferris stumbled from the bed to the bathroom and gargled with Listerine.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 8, 2018

My mouth felt like I’d gargled used urinal cakes, and my cracked lips stung.

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson

As I was gargling in the bathroom, she appeared at the doorway to snidely say, “Don’t drink it.”

From Salon ● Feb. 17, 2026

If you've been spitting, rinsing and gargling after every brush, you might want to rethink that last step.

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2025

That mentality, that medical fear, gives way to home remedies like chicken noodle soup, gargling with salt water, taking a nap and, yes, sipping on the syrupy, high fructose, food-colored ginger ale.

From Salon ● Jan. 27, 2023

If your sore throat is compounded by a cough, gargling with salt water might be helpful.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 31, 2022

Harry leapt over a low table and sprinted toward Slughorn’s open potion kit, pulling out jars and pouches, while the terrible sound of Ron’s gargling breath filled the room.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling