It can be chronic, as with a smoker's cough and attendant poor ability to expectorate excessive mucus. From LearnThat.org. [www.yourdictionary.com]
It just means you need to really stop and ask yourself whether you want to use the word 'expectorate' when what you mean is 'spit.'. From Wordnik.com. [seanan_mcguire: Write! Right? Fifty thoughts on writing.] Reference
He reached the futtock rigging, and stopped to expectorate. From Wordnik.com. [The Ghost Pirates] Reference
He must be careful, also, not to expectorate across the table. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter at Home] Reference
Hsi Jen expectorate, with a retch, a whole mouthful of phlegm. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
I agree… “If you expectorate on Groot again, mammal…” Heh. From Wordnik.com. [Annihilation Conquest: Star-Lord #2 & #3 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News] Reference
"Perhaps we should expectorate more on behalf of mutual relations.". From Wordnik.com. [Dirge]
Freeport: It is illegal to expectorate from any second-story window. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-01-01] Reference
We have seen this national agenda expectorate into the world of sports. From Wordnik.com. [Dave Zirin: The Summer of Our Sporting Discontent] Reference
They expectorate upon the floor of cars, hotels, and even private homes. From Wordnik.com. [Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics] Reference
Rarely has the urge to expectorate one's lunch been a feeling so sublime. From Wordnik.com. [31 Days of Zombie!, Day 18: Braindead (Peter Jackson, 1992)] Reference
Also, guys, the past tense of “spit” as in “expectorate” is “spat.”. From Wordnik.com. [Typo Crusaders Tour U.S. - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference
For a sore throat it is sufficient to expectorate in the fire three times, making a cross. From Wordnik.com. [Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America] Reference
You'd never know it unless you could see him sometimes, which was very seldom, expectorate. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with John Raymond Shute, June 25, 1982. Interview B-0054-1. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
The old smoker has usually some increase of this secretion, although he does not expectorate. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860] Reference
Gragelouth simply could not bring himself to do more than occasionally expectorate on the cell floor. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of Felix Gunderson] Reference
Switters was going to list some of the monsters, but his mouth was dry, and he feared he couldn't expectorate. From Wordnik.com. [Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates]
But as soon as he reached the side of her bed, he perceived Hsi Jen expectorate, with a retch, a whole mouthful of phlegm. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng] Reference
In Christiansburg, Va., it's illegal to "spit, expectorate or deposit any sputum, saliva or any form of saliva or sputum.". From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-01-01] Reference
A cuspidor, or basin, should be constantly kept at the side of the bed in which the patient may conveniently expectorate. From Wordnik.com. [The Eugenic Marriage, Volume IV. (of IV.) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference
Now, our schoolteacher was a big paan-and-spit man—and his expectorate made a sort of low, red wallpaper on three walls around us. From Wordnik.com. [THE WHITE TIGER] Reference
Sir George came hither yesterday, to expectorate with me, as he called it. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2] Reference
So, if I have, -- why the devil don't you say it at once, and expectorate your spleen?. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2] Reference
One habit of the men is disgusting; they expectorate freely over everything but the ocean. From Wordnik.com. [Le Petit Nord or, Annals of a Labrador Harbour] Reference
He stops of his own accord, however, to cough and expectorate -- he has advanced tuberculosis. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman Who Toils Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls] Reference
If any one or anything goes by, he must watch it while in sight and then comment and expectorate. From Wordnik.com. [Success with Small Fruits] Reference
It is barbarous to expectorate in the temple of your faith, but that doubtless is an extreme case. From Wordnik.com. [Italian Hours] Reference
There was a nauseating, rancid taste to the stuff, but I dared not even raise my head to expectorate. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Andes] Reference
In a very short time a profuse perspiration broke out over my whole body, and I began to expectorate freely. From Wordnik.com. [The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West] Reference
If none is forthcoming they will give a short, grim laugh, shake their heads, and, as likely as not, expectorate. From Wordnik.com. [A Tall Ship On Other Naval Occasions] Reference
"What's your name?" he said, and tried to expectorate between his front teeth as Gustav was in the habit of doing. From Wordnik.com. [Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 01] Reference
The pain was augmented during deglutition, and almost immediately afterward he commenced to expectorate great quantities of blood. From Wordnik.com. [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference
He began to expectorate blood -- no unusual thing for him -- but this time to such extent that he feared the return of hemorrhage. From Wordnik.com. [The Day of the Beast] Reference
The girls expectorate to such an extent that the floor is nauseous with it; the little girls practise spitting and are adepts at it. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman Who Toils Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls] Reference
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