Example Sentences

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That you married someone who expectorates brown, reeking spittle undermines your own case for just how disgusting you find this.

From Slate • Feb. 19, 2014

This squeezes tubercular secretions out into the windpipe, like toothpaste out of a tube; and the patient expectorates.

From Time Magazine Archive

It usually commences with, and can scarcely be distinguished from, catarrh, except that it is attended by cough more violent and painful, and the dog expectorates considerably.

From The Dog by Youatt, William

The clinical symptoms follow those of the auscultation; as the patient expectorates less he is less feeble, coughs less, gains strength, and regains his spirits; but the tubercle remains untouched.

From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Anshutz, Edward Pollock

The subject apparently languishes, but I know that it still occupies their sage meditations; and presently this is demonstrated by Hiram, who expectorates liberally by way of preface.

From The Fortune Hunter by Vance, Louis Joseph