Example Sentences
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I had just finished brushing my teeth and was about to gargle, so I went ahead and gargled.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 13, 2023
It found people who gargled and cleared their nose with a salt water solution reported fewer coughs, less congestion and seemed to recover quicker.
From BBC • Jun. 24, 2020
It’s a fun, loose record stuffed with twisting and vibrating electronics that shifts tonally from pop-heavy melodies to erratic heavy clangs, as Smith’s voice wriggles around from gargled snarl to smoothed-out croon.
From The Guardian • Mar. 25, 2020
So rancid did his night scenarios become that Seamie Ferris stumbled from the bed to the bathroom and gargled with Listerine.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 8, 2018
My mouth felt like I’d gargled used urinal cakes, and my cracked lips stung.
From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson
