How to Use vomit in a Sentence

vomit

1 of 2 verb
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Synonyms for vomitnext
  • The dog vomited on the floor.
  • The patient was vomiting blood.
  • Hank isn't gonna know whether to laugh or vomit about this news.
    — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 31 Jan. 2023
  • Police said the child vomited on the tray and the table.
    — Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 27 Apr. 2023
  • At one point, the suit reads, the man ran to the restroom on board and was heard vomiting.
    — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 31 July 2023
  • Kicking in the head of the kick drum and crawling through it, vomiting.
    — Jonathan Rowe, SPIN, 23 Jan. 2024
  • The man told police Smith-Fields became ill and went to the bathroom to vomit.
    — Meagan Jordan, Rolling Stone, 16 Jan. 2022
  • So there was no filter, and the words were just vomiting out.
    — Melissa Giannini, ELLE, 20 July 2023
  • Smith could also vomit instead the mask and choke to death, his lawyers said.
    — USA TODAY, 26 Jan. 2024
  • At the age of 15, though, Slaughter woke up one day and couldn’t stop vomiting.
    — Ryan Michaels, al, 18 June 2023
  • The monk had given some to a few pigs, who vomited at first but then grew healthy and fat.
    — Neima Jahromi, The New Yorker, 27 Dec. 2019
  • The fish thaws and revives in the dog’s stomach, where its wriggling causes the dog to vomit.
    — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Jan. 2023
  • People don’t like to be spit on, let alone vomited on in such a way.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 7 Aug. 2023
  • Yeong-han would get off a ride with his teammates, go vomit, then reset for the next ride.
    — Sean Collins, Dallas News, 24 May 2021
  • Another, afraid to call in sick, paused calls to vomit.
    — Ken Armstrong, ProPublica, 23 July 2021
  • But that wasn’t the first of the indignities to Tirov, who was also the first person to vomit in space.
    — Steven Levy, Wired, 21 July 2021
  • Quin Snyder thought maybe Donovan Mitchell had to go back to the locker room to vomit.
    — Eric Walden, The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 Dec. 2021
  • Sabally was briefly pulled from the game after having run off the court to vomit in the trash can.
    — Arianna Vedia, Dallas News, 23 Sep. 2021
  • Though no one asked for the close up, Ed got frisky with a flower, and Asuelu vomited on the sand beneath him.
    — Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 19 Sep. 2023
  • The little girl was sick often and vomited at least once a month.
    — Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 10 July 2023
  • Police said Prude appeared to spit and vomit while the device was over his head.
    — Anthony Leonardi, Washington Examiner, 3 Sep. 2020
  • Some species can even vomit toxins as a means of self-defense.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Even non-toxic plants can cause cats to vomit so keeping them out of easy reach is best.
    — oregonlive, 25 Oct. 2020
  • One day in fall 2018, Bo Gribbon began to vomit and couldn’t stop.
    — NBC News, 11 July 2021
  • Where did the idea of having Lisa Nova vomit kittens come from?
    — Shannon Carlin, Vulture, 31 Aug. 2021
  • The boat begins to move way too much, causing cruisers to vomit, some to poop, and others to fall down stairs.
    — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 9 Aug. 2022
  • Some of them come vomiting out, some are like tying knots.
    — Lawrence Jackson, Harper's Magazine, 10 July 2023
  • The track repairman had vomited and was out of it, according to the court records.
    — Topher Sanders, ProPublica, 16 Dec. 2023
  • Before the illness ran its course, her husband spiked a fever and started to vomit.
    — Jenna Carlesso, courant.com, 31 Aug. 2020
  • Green stood in a doorway while the man, who gagged and later vomited in a trash can, did so, the document says.
    — Phil Helsel, NBC News, 14 Mar. 2024
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vomit

2 of 2 noun
  • The acid stench of new vomit in a basin on her bed burned in his nose.
    — Lisa Sanders, M.d., New York Times, 16 Nov. 2022
  • And yes, a cat in Belgium had traces of the virus’s genome in its stool and vomit.
    — National Geographic, 9 Apr. 2020
  • His speech was slurred, his eyes were bloodshot and there was vomit on the floor and on the driver’s-side door.
    — J.p. Pelzman, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2021
  • Even in the midst of the crying, and the poop, and the vomit and the engorged breasts, and the hair loss, and my ever-changing body.
    — Andrea Lavinthal, PEOPLE.com, 19 Apr. 2022
  • The mass on the ground in the photo looks like dog vomit slime mold that is starting to dry up.
    — Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 3 Sep. 2023
  • First came a pain in her chest, then green vomit that rose up again and again in her throat.
    — Longreads, 8 Apr. 2021
  • The answer wasn’t so much a word as a growl and maybe a gallon of green, sticky vomit.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 7 Aug. 2023
  • There is vomit on John's jeans from last night's binge, and a urine stain that hasn't quite dried yet.
    — Meg Kissinger, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Aug. 2021
  • Also, Gates goes for a ride in zero-G on the vomit comet.
    — Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 8 Dec. 2020
  • The child was forced to use the spoon to eat the vomit and then clean up the rest with paper towels, police said.
    — Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 27 Apr. 2023
  • There was vomit on his clothes and in his car, which was parked nearby.
    — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 9 Dec. 2021
  • It’s in the basement of the fraternity, down a flight of stairs that reeks of vomit and cheap beer.
    — Brienne Walsh, Forbes, 28 Apr. 2021
  • Sarah's the first to spew vomit, with Danny not far behind.
    — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 15 Sep. 2022
  • At the bedside, there was no scent of alcohol on her breath, just the acrid smell of vomit.
    — New York Times, 3 Dec. 2020
  • The color of a dog's vomit can give some clues as to the underlying cause.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 17 Oct. 2022
  • And vomit is just one of the body fluids ride-hail drivers have to worry about.
    — Aarian Marshall, WIRED, 14 Aug. 2023
  • The car was shut off but the keys in the ignition, and police noticed vomit on the ground outside.
    — Thomas Jewell, cleveland, 12 Nov. 2022
  • Choking on your own vomit isn’t a way that anyone wants to die.
    — Brianna Carter, SPIN, 9 Feb. 2022
  • Then streets lined with vomit and food scraps and trash for days and good luck trying to keep the dog from trying to eat it all.
    — Elisa Albert, Longreads, 28 Apr. 2020
  • Someone's knees were gonna be weak with vomit on their sweater due to Mom's Spaghetti.
    — Andrew Hammond, Detroit Free Press, 18 Oct. 2021
  • Her pale face glistened, and her graying hair was dark with sweat and vomit.
    — Lisa Sanders, M.d., New York Times, 16 Nov. 2022
  • Yesterday, my wife put a large pile of dog vomit on my desk.
    — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 8 Jan. 2022
  • One staffer sent me the vomit emoji while recounting this portion of the talk.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 14 May 2021
  • See a highly edited, vomit-free video of my flight above.
    — Mike Miller, EW.com, 23 Aug. 2022
  • His spectacles had fallen off and now lay in a pool of vomit.
    — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 June 2023
  • The dog vomit slime mold will not harm your plants, pets or family so there is no need to try to control it.
    — Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 3 Sep. 2023
  • The dog vomit slime mold will not harm your plants, pets or family, so there is no need to try to control it.
    — Tim Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 25 July 2021
  • The next morning at around 9 a.m., Zabel entered the victim’s room to ask her to move her car and was overpowered by the stench of vomit.
    — Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News, 29 Nov. 2022
  • But all that changed the day my dad visited me after work and found me in my crib covered in vomit.
    — Rebekah Sager, Washington Post, 16 Oct. 2020
  • The morning-afters look more brutal still, as in one scene when Cole comes to with vomit crusted all down the front of his shirt.
    — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Feb. 2022

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