How to Use puke in a Sentence

puke

1 of 2 verb

• There’s strong waves of desire to puke.
  — Rachel Raposas, PEOPLE, 10 Apr. 2026
• Dance, drink, make out with DJs and puke in your purse in Ubers.
  — Carly Tagen-Dye, People.com, 11 Apr. 2025
• If a cop cannot tolerate being puked on, spat upon, cursed at, etc.
  — Mara H. Gottfried, Twin Cities, 4 May 2017
• There’s the drawing of the curtains, the curling up in bed, the dash to the toilet to puke my guts out.
  — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 19 Sep. 2023
• One day our positions were going crazy and a young lady who worked with me puked into the trash can.
  — Robert Levine, Billboard, 22 Jan. 2018
• Patty has to excuse herself to puke after Kravitz thanks her.
  — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 7 May 2025
• The mewling, puking newborn that is the e-book market has few contenders.
  — Charlie Sorrel, WIRED, 12 May 2008
• Why dwell on the possibility of getting sick and puking all over the place?
  — Lori D. Johnson, The Root, 3 June 2018
• Megan couldn't choke down a single sip of the chicken smoothie and almost puked in the sink after trying it.
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Oct. 2025
• And show me an athlete, even in high school, who didn’t puke during an especially tough workout.
  — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 18 May 2021
• Dina investigates the nearby trees and returns to puke her guts out.
  — EW.com, 28 Apr. 2025
• For more about staying fit in orbit and some pro tips for puking in microgravity, check out the video above.
  — Wired, 15 Oct. 2019
• But instead of ejecting evil spirits from their body, the creatures puke their guts out as a defense mechanism.
  — Corryn Wetzel, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Oct. 2020
• There’s no better time for a boozy popsicle than after a long day of dealing with teenagers puking on themselves, right?
  — Shelbie Lynn Bostedt, RedEye Chicago, 2 Aug. 2017
• Put another way, our dizzy brains think we’re being poisoned and force us to puke to expel the offending substance.
  — Popular Science, 20 July 2023
• Those that made this list checked off all our experts’ must-haves, actually tasted decent, and didn’t leave me puking on the side of the course.
  — Jennifer Heimlich, SELF, 26 June 2025
• When quirkily melodious new wave tried to make punk cute, the Bowery gobbled it all up and puked up atonal filth-art no wave.
  — Jonathan Rowe, Spin, 11 Aug. 2023
• Like 29-year-old Sean Stackpole, who leans against a wall, looking not unlike a man at risk of puking.
  — Jen Kirby, Daily Intelligencer, 21 July 2017
• Then, in the following season, Houser puked in the first inning against the Texas Rangers.
  — Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 9 July 2025
• Bart O’Kavanaugh, who pukes in someone’s car—in a friend’s book about high school drunkenness and hookups probably makes that list.
  — Wendy Naugle, Glamour, 19 Sep. 2018
• The trailer shows black-eyed demons puking into people’s mouths, while the title implies some marauding monster.
  — Josephine Livingstone, New Republic, 16 June 2017
• Gross things can happen at parties, from beer spilling literally everywhere to people puking from drinking too much said beer.
  — Rachel Torgerson, Cosmopolitan, 5 Sep. 2017
• Maybe a fighter will suddenly puke right in the middle of the cage, or the ring announcer will botch his declaration of the winner not once but twice.
  — Dan Gartland, SI.com, 2 July 2018
• There are, inevitably and perhaps predictably, dire consequences here, as signaled when I-Ann has to run to the street to puke during her shift.
  — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 15 May 2025
• Even the sophisticated ones probably puked up in somebody’s garden.
  — Melinda Newman, Billboard, 1 Aug. 2017
• The second-year cornerback picked off Tom Brady twice despite puking on the sidelines of Monday night’s game.
  — Adam H. Beasley, miamiherald, 17 Dec. 2017
• At one point, Rink was shouting encouragement to some paddlers from his perch on the front of the boat while the race photographer was hanging off the back, puking.
  — Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2023
• Annabelle wants souls, demons possess you by puking into your mouth, and no powers of darkness are stronger than the love between spooky mom and dad, Ed and Lorraine Warren.
  — Emily Palmer Heller, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025
• Eventually, obsession over the joke drives Cartman to puke incessantly.
  — Kevin Dolak, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
• Betty runs out and pukes in the bathroom, where Cheryl tries to comfort her but is rebuffed, and Veronica theorizes with Archie that her father was involved somehow.
  — Jessica MacLeish, Teen Vogue, 8 Feb. 2018

puke

2 of 2 noun

• The smell of puke lingered for the rest of the day and didn't end their friendship.
  — Timothy Fanning, San Antonio Express-News, 7 Sep. 2022
• Apparently there was a lot of puke we thankfully weren't shown!
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 30 July 2020
• The boy is stupefied, snot intermingling with the puke dripping from his mouth to his navel.
  — Matthew Shen Goodman, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
• For the cherry on top, Raz must produce ingredients for a final dish by fishing them out of the puke.
  — Washington Post, 24 May 2021
• The more conservative voter may turn it off halfway through during one of the finest orchestrated puke and poop scenes in years.
  — Clayton Davis, Variety, 23 May 2022
• Behind-the-scenes footage shows the special effects team testing out different kinds of vomit apparatuses to see just where the puke would land.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 7 Aug. 2023
• The contestants were welcomed to the game, said their pleasantries, and Yam Yam offered to hold anyone's puke should there be a reason to do that.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 2 Mar. 2023
• There’s a debate over the ship’s loudspeakers about capitalism and communism the whole time those rich guests are flooding the dining room and hallways with puke.
  — Aaron Matz, The New York Review of Books, 4 Apr. 2026
• Amina is reluctantly recruited into the band despite her square tendency to wear muted pastels and puke from stage fright.
  — Los Angeles Times, 27 May 2021
• Fontanilla said inducing vomiting and testing the puke is the only way to know what poison a dog has ingested, a procedure her facility has performed.
  — Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 21 Aug. 2022
• Viewers could see two production team members behind Don Draper (Jon Hamm), controlling the stream of fake puke coming out of the side of Roger’s face.
  — Daniel S. Levine, PEOPLE, 3 Dec. 2025
• The best movies extract emotions from us, and watching the most objectionable material in Waters’ masterpiece from 1972 can feel like trying to hold puke back behind your eyeballs.
  — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 3 Oct. 2025
• Woodall reciprocates with his own sweet snaps of Campbell on his Instagram account, including an October 2019 Halloween pic of the couple holding a jack-o-lantern with pumpkin seeds as pretend puke.
  — Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 15 Aug. 2023
• That includes in particular, Don Rickles as an oily floor manager, Dick Smothers as a hypocritical politico, James Woods as a puke-ish parasite and, once again, Scorsese’s mother, Catherine Scorsese, as a take-no-guff, see-no-evil mama familias.
  — Duane Byrge, HollywoodReporter, 22 Nov. 2025