Sentence examples for cough from inspiring English sources

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The word "cough" is correct and widely used in written English.
You can use it when referring to the act of coughing or when describing a sound. For example, "He heard a loud cough coming from the other room."

Dictionary

cough

noun

A sudden, usually noisy expulsion of air from the lungs, often involuntary.

  • Behind me, I heard a distinct, dry cough.

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If someone has had a cough for three days, so has chest pains from that, they will call us out.

It's marketed as a treat, the cherry on top once you finally acquiesce to the will of our corporate overlords and cough up for permanent next-day delivery.

If I can't afford it, no one's pressuring me to cough up, either.

At a time when whooping cough was killing almost 6,000 American children a year, the pair worked tirelessly to create the vaccine.

When I mention Marseille as the capital of culture, the smokers cough and splutter with laughter.

Müller thinks it means trouble: "the total cost of patent royalties that vendors will have to cough up per unit of an Android-based device will likely become substantial and could result in a cost disadvantage for Android as compared to Windows Phone, for which Microsoft provides a patent guarantee that gives vendors peace of mind and predictable licensing costs".

"When they cough, they grab their lower regions.

Symptoms of influenza include fever, muscle pain, sore throat, headache and cough and complications include pneumonia and ear infections.

The former president spent Christmas 2012 in intensive care at the same hospital while being treated for a bronchitis-related cough and other issues.

"Of course not!" Students who do not wish to pick cotton could cough up 300,000 Uzbek soms to buy themselves out, the letter said.

Unless you are a truly sociable soul, cough up for the single room supplement.

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