Sentence examples for expectoration from inspiring English sources

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expectoration

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The action of expectorating, of ejecting phlegm or mucus from the throat or lungs by coughing, hawking, or spitting.

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Guaifenesin is widely used in cough preparations to help liquefy secretions and aid expectoration.

Along the way there's a meet-cute and a lot of campy gags about the peculiarities of life in modern China, including karaoke parties, social misunderstandings relating to stinky tofu and copious amounts of public expectoration.

Ricardo Carvalho was sent off in the final minutes for a flying elbow, and Ronaldo was involved in a mini-storm for a bit of wayward expectoration after the final whistle.

Between coughing jags and fits of expectoration, Woods, the fifth seed in his bracket, used the 12th-seeded Fernández-Castaño as an antibody for his ailing game by grinding out a 1-up victory at Dove Mountain.

"Love – that's what you're selling," he told Jesus before his blasphemous expectoration.

I thought I moved it … " I'm feeling stupidly reassured about all this, when the man in the seat next to me embarks on a terrible coughing fit, a real empurpled horror, with the kind of tense hiatus between grim expectoration and desperate, gurgled apology which has me looking around for a more responsible, perhaps medically trained, bystander.

Occasionally, drugs to suppress paroxysmal coughing may be necessary, but they must be used sparingly because they can be addictive and because expectoration is necessary.

"Good poetry," as Hughes's good friend Seamus Heaney once said, "is not just expectoration or self-regard or a semaphore for self's sake.

The biggest surprise was that, with the sport in question involving an inordinate amount of spitting, no one rhymed Matsui (the Yankee outfielder or the Met infielder, take your pick) with "ptui" -- this even though several poets did in fact mention expectoration.

Oscar Wilde observed that "America is one long expectoration".

Hospitals, universities, office complexes, railroad stations -- it is hard to find a public building spared the signature mementos of expectoration.

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