vomit
verb (used without object)
to eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; regurgitate; throw up.
had vomited
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past perfectof vomit.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Within a few minutes, he had vomited, collapsed and was unable to get up, she said.
From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2026
"The smell is terrible," she complained, noting that the birds had vomited fish guts all over her lawn.
From Salon ● Feb. 20, 2023
One Air Force spouse told leaders at a town hall streamed online over the weekend that her infant had vomited for days and that her dog, whose health rapidly deteriorated, had to be euthanized.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 7, 2021
A tacky chair in a trailer park looks “like a clown had vomited on it”; a small-time crook is “as slick as two eels in a bucketful of snot.”
From New York Times ● Jul. 17, 2020
The gasping pools were choked with ash and crawling muds, sickly white and grey, as if the mountains had vomited the filth of their entrails upon the lands about.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
