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throwing up

adjective as in green around the gills

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Throwing up is an integral part of the ceremony, and shamans encourage it.

Flashing a smug grin while throwing up your collective shoulders in blithe befuddlement should convince absolutely no one.

They began throwing up any iteration of a talent competition they could think of—who remembers Celebrity Duets?

Perhaps throwing up your thumbs during a picnic lunch on Serengeti.

It is women like her who suffer most from the barriers to safe procedures that the anti-abortion movement is forever throwing up.

Throwing up his hands, he caught Clip about the throat, and the two rolled over and over, struggling desperately.

Throwing up the window, he saw his young son attempting to mount the groom's pony: the latter objecting.

Throwing up a nice snug little place at Moleseys and rushing himself on to the already overstocked labour market of the Colonies.

He had his coat off and was digging in the ground with a spade, throwing up shovelfuls of the hard clay.

He worked vigorously, throwing up spadefuls of the soil with quick, nervous jerks.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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