Example Sentences

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"I will cough up whatever I need to," says Prof Smith.

From BBC • Dec. 3, 2025

Spend enough time on YouTube and eventually the algorithm will cough up something that looks like a point-of-view shot of a nightmare — at once frustratingly mundane and compellingly inexplicable.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 12, 2023

Young will cough for the doctor at Inter today, before moving to the Serie A side for £1.5m.

From The Guardian • Jan. 17, 2020

"My granddaughter — he sleeps with the grandbabies when they come over. He's a pet. I will cough up a loogie and he will eat it from my mouth. I'm his mother."

From Fox News • May 9, 2019

The patient, on inhaling the fumes, will fall asleep, and, when it awakes, it will cough up and spit out all the membranous matter, and diphtheria will pass off.

From The Little Gleaner, Vol. X. A Monthly Magazine for the Young by Various