Example Sentences

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Others freely hissed, booed, cheered, stamped, applauded, threw things, ate, talked and expectorated their way through performances.

From Salon • Dec. 25, 2021

No one wanted to follow him after he expectorated barbs.

From Washington Post • May 24, 2016

In 1871, when the last Prussian troops marched out of Paris, crowds of bourgeois housewives expectorated lustily.

From Time Magazine Archive

In The Electric Horseman, he simply leaned back, squinted, expectorated a few down-home aphorisms and stole a scene or two from Robert Redford.

From Time Magazine Archive

For one thing that admirable seaman expectorated again into the kitchen fire, but that apart, the note of primeval extravagance in his outward aspect hardly commended itself to Mother.

From The Sailor by Snaith, J. C.