Sentence examples for the phlegm from inspiring English sources
noun
One of the four humors making up the body in ancient and mediaeval medicine; said to be cold and moist, and often identified with mucus.
Mr. Griffiths is the phlegm to Mr. DeVito's spleen.
The phlegm I cough is filled with blood and hard like bricks".
You've been smoking.' " She chuckled and loosened the phlegm in her chest, restarting her cough.
Because of a birth defect, his body cannot remove the phlegm on its own.
Two days in a metropolis, and I could feel the phlegm in my throat, the sting in my eyes.
Then, get round to the cemetery and let them have it, with all the phlegm you can muster.
The Logic gives me the most phlegm the next day as it's probably the worst for my lungs, but it also does the best impression of a cigarette.
Family tickets are available for £350 so ageing punks can give their children a taste of the phlegm-coated music of their youth.
The author of 18 novels including "Empire of the Sun," Ballard, who died in 2009, is more funny than preachy; there's a certain glee in his spite, as when he writes about the slain leader of these devoted shoppers, the talk-show host of the mall's cable channel: "Only his hair survived, a blond mane lying across the phlegm-soaked pillow".
The most common descriptions were abnormal sensation in the throat, phlegm and mucous in the throat, tickle and irritation in the throat and a tickle in the throat.
The Ancient Greeks based their medicine on the four humours of the body: Phlegm.
