Sentence examples for coughing from inspiring English sources

"If people are coughing and sneezing, you can easily catch the flu.

Note: the tendency of such outlets to shower their crêpes in icing sugar, so you end up wheezing and coughing over them like a terminally ill character in an ITV drama about a 1920s Welsh mining village, is far less pleasant.

I was asked to make a speech and as I was waiting, there was someone behind me coughing.

For Apple, losing might be a problem – though one that could be sorted out by coughing up to Nokia.

After coughing and spluttering her way through her semi-final, Williams had been too ill to practise on Friday and was even doubled-over at times when she had a gentle hit a couple of hours before the final.

The hard nut, who was coughing up blood after his collision with Ollie Wines, was taken to hospital for scans.

Another was met by a mumbled answer that morphed into a fit of coughing.

I dropped to the ground and I was blinded and I couldn't breathe … It was really painful and no amount of coughing or crying could get rid of it".

Although I'd been coughing up brown phlegm in the mornings for months, the decisive moment came when I overheard a fashion assistant discussing me with an actress I'd just interviewed.

Naturally, that meant coughing up.

But before coughing up bail-out funds, these creditors demand reforms and budget cuts to place the Greek economy on a sounder long-term footing.