Example Sentences

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Ward-Vela’s aunt, Kimberly Ward, said Fortman told her he lost control of the truck because he had diarrhea and had been vomiting.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 18, 2022

The young child had been vomiting for days and was now at a Birmingham, Ala., hospital with yellowing eyes and a severely inflamed liver.

From Washington Post • May 17, 2022

He had been vomiting and excreting blood, but was given medication and sent home.

From The Guardian • Aug. 10, 2020

She had been vomiting, she said, and her spine hurt.

From New York Times • Mar. 5, 2019

I had been vomiting for more than forty-eight hours every drop that I drank.

From Fifteen Years in Hell by Benson, Luther