Example Sentences

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When Maresa throws a tantrum: “I am not baffled by this screaming girl, but my comprehension is no help. She is retching, she is shaking, she is spitting up bile.”

From Washington Times • Apr. 15, 2019

My lady is retching her soul away, if she has such a thing as a soul.

From Atlantis by Seltzer, Adele Szold