expectorated

past tense of expectorate

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for expectorated
Verb
  • At times, those on the margins get inside, if only briefly, and others, who were established, get spit out.
    Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 2 Feb. 2025
  • Sten Lennart Jakobsen/East Zealand Museum About 66 million years ago, just before the mass extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs, a fish chewed up and spit out some sea creatures.
    James Doubek, NPR, 29 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • The United States historically has expelled the majority of migrants without legal status to Mexico and other Central American countries.
    Mennatalla Ibrahim, Baltimore Sun, 24 Dec. 2024
  • Then there is the business of riddling—slowly turning the bottle at a precise angle over time to nudge the dead yeast into the bottle neck to be expelled (this in itself is yet another process, not to mention the addition of a final dosage).
    Katie Kelly Bell, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • The first is that when U.S. soldiers returned from the war there, protesters spat upon them in disdain.
    Jonathan Zimmerman, Foreign Affairs, 19 May 2016
  • The flare comes after nearly a week of flares and coronal plasma ejections spat toward the planet that threatened disruptions to power and communications systems on Earth.
    Greg Wehner, Fox News, 15 May 2024
Verb
  • The pigs were safely loaded, watered and fed while on the island.
    Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 18 Dec. 2024
  • Keep Plant Leaves Dry Houseplants can be watered using overhead watering or bottom watering.
    Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • This isn’t to say Vancouver’s window has already slammed shut or expired.
    Thomas Drance, The Athletic, 8 Jan. 2025
  • Graham’s contract with the Raiders expired after this season.
    Matt Barrows, The Athletic, 8 Jan. 2025
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“Expectorated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/expectorated. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.

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