expectorating
- present participle of expectorate.
Example Sentences
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Which could mean the golden era of spitting, slobbering, gleaking, glanding, hawking, hocking, venoming and expectorating is about to dry up.
From Washington Times ● May 10, 2020
You must replace this habit with drinking water or snapping a rubber band on your wrist or perhaps expectorating into a nearby spittoon.
From New York Times ● Dec. 14, 2018
“A land of expectorating cowpokes!” he cries when Jefferson identifies himself as the country’s former president.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 5, 2016
By the end of their sojourn they would be, ideally, clearing their noses without hankies, expectorating on to the pampas, and cleaning their teeth with very big knives, while cursing in idiomatic Spanish.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 1, 2014
I hear him in the basement, expectorating back to a vuvv language soundtrack.
From "Landscape with Invisible Hand" by M.T. Anderson
