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barf, gag, heave, hurl, puke, retch, spew, spit up, throw up, upchuck
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The dog vomited on the floor. The patient was vomiting blood.Recent Examples on the Web: Verb
Other symptoms include loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, weight loss and very uncomfortable cramping or bloating. — Forum News Service, Twin Cities, "Contaminated basil sickens 35 at restaurants in Rochester, Duluth," 26 July 2019 The patient was a 26-year-old woman with a history of headaches, nausea, and vomiting since childhood. — Katherine Foxhall, Time, "How A Nurse With a Hole in Her Skull Changed The Medical History of Migraines," 18 June 2019 The 2020 Olympics could be the ugliest American visit to Tokyo since former President George H.W. Bush vomited in the lap of Japanese prime minister Kiichi Miyazawa. — SI.com, "One Year Out: What to Watch Ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics," 24 July 2019 Instead, what Youngblood does is campy, frenetic, and fast: a montage of reactions, from the girls vomiting to high-fiving to cackling in their thick Texan accents above their enemy's corpse. — Julie Muncy, WIRED, "Wolfenstein: Youngblood Is a Rare Game About Sisterhood," 30 July 2019 For about eight hours until the nurse returned to work, Wippel had been vomiting blood, groaning and complaining of not feeling well. — oregonlive.com, "Two Jefferson County jail deputies acquitted in inmate’s death file suit, alleging malicious prosecution," 26 July 2019 But Dadashev could not walk to the locker room on his own power and began vomiting as medical officials helped him onto a gurney. — Childs Walker, baltimoresun.com, "On eve of Gervonta Davis’ fight in Baltimore, this week’s boxing deaths offer stark reminder of sport’s risks," 26 July 2019 But some people with Powassan virus can start to experience symptoms like fever, weakness, headache, and vomiting a week to a month after infection, the CDC says. — Patia Braithwaite, SELF, "8 Tick-Borne Illnesses That Aren’t Lyme Disease," 26 July 2019 The boxer began vomiting while waiting for the stretcher. — Reuters, The Mercury News, "Boxer Maxim Dadashev dies after first loss of his career," 23 July 2019Recent Examples on the Web: Noun
While under the influence of the three substances, Skaggs choked on his vomit and died. — Emily Caron, SI.com, "Angels' Tyler Skaggs Choked to Death With Opioids, Alcohol in System," 30 Aug. 2019 Policemen who are there to retrieve the dolphin vomit from the idea that Einhorn was once a man. — Dan Kopf, Quartzy, "Before We Knew Better: Transphobia was at the very center of Ace Ventura," 31 May 2019 No, wait - there has been at least a lukewarm political plan of action, but Sen. Mitch McConnell is sitting on two bipartisan background check bills like a roll of Bounty on cat vomit. — J.d. Crowe | Jdcrowe@al.com, al, "Mitch McConnell: From my cold, dead butt," 7 Aug. 2019 The heat is on Employees, customers and vendors at the bargain store described sweat-box conditions that caused some to pass out and vomit from the heat. — Robert Anglen, azcentral, "Phoenix Family Dollar store gets air conditioning day after Republic story," 20 July 2019 Soon after, Walt discovers Jane choking on vomit in her sleep and does nothing to save her, a decision that made his character unredeemable in the eyes of some viewers. — Lisa Respers France, CNN, "Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul just kind of played us about 'Breaking Bad,' yo," 10 July 2019 The Twitter exchange quickly went viral, and the discourse ranged from people begging for Hidden Valley and Pop-Tart to make their snack dreams come true to people simply posting vomit emojis. — Htv National Desk, Houston Chronicle, "Pop-Tarts had the best response to the idea of a ranch-flavored Pop-Tart," 28 June 2019 In one particularly egregious case, records show a man died in a puddle of blood and vomit at the Arapahoe County jail after his untreated pneumonia turned into sepsis. — Keri Blakinger, Houston Chronicle, "Listen: Jail deaths, sinking submarines, and the woes of privatized correctional healthcare," 24 July 2019 There's the driver in California who neighbors found passed out half in his UPS truck, in a pool of blood and vomit. — NBC News, "In the hot seat: UPS delivery drivers at risk of heat-related illnesses," 18 July 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'vomit.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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