expectorate
verb (used without object)
to eject or expel matter, as phlegm, from the throat or lungs by coughing or hawking and spitting; spit.
expectorates
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present tense formof expectorate (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
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
On the Slave Coast, for the same reason, whenever a king or chief expectorates, the saliva is scrupulously gathered up and hidden or buried.
From The Golden Bough by Sir James George Frazer
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 William Youatt
In the middle of the street he oscillates the prosperous abdomen of which he is proprietor, and rocking on legs arched like basket-handles, he expectorates in wide abundance all around him.
From Under Fire: the story of a squad by Fitzwater Wray
