Examples of retch in a Sentence
the smell of rotten cabbage makes me retch
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The beat retched like Tin Man choking on his own silvery puke while Fraxiom called out NYU kids and threatened to pee on Zedd.
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Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 5 Mar. 2025
By a weird coincidence, the young woman loudly retching in the next bed had, too.
—Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024
Shortly afterward, he was seen retching in a field.
—Heidi Blake, The New Yorker, 29 July 2024
The Bachelorette: Meet the 25 contestants hoping to woo Jenn Tran
Graziadei ended up retching after trying the concoction during the episode, before eventually giving it a very generous four out of 10 star rating.
—EW.com, 29 June 2024
Friedel also points to a relevant source of inspiration for him and Glazer: the final scene of the documentary The Act of Killing, in which a war criminal — the genocidal Indonesian gangster Anwar Congo — also breaks into a fit of retching, as if finally overcome by what he’s done.
—A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 10 Mar. 2024
There’s one scene in particular that will have audiences buzzing, or retching, or both — suffice it to say this is not a film to be screened at Lamaze classes.
—Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Apr. 2024
By contrast, Garner and Helms are game for anything — including belching, farting and retching — but all their enthusiastic mugging can’t mask the fact that CC and Wyatt aren’t much more than a stereotypical surly teen and a stereotypical geek.
—Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
The camera then cut to the princess in the bathroom, retching.
—Louis Staples, Rolling Stone, 18 Nov. 2023
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Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 5 Mar. 2025
By a weird coincidence, the young woman loudly retching in the next bed had, too.
—Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024
Shortly afterward, he was seen retching in a field.
—Heidi Blake, The New Yorker, 29 July 2024
The Bachelorette: Meet the 25 contestants hoping to woo Jenn Tran
Graziadei ended up retching after trying the concoction during the episode, before eventually giving it a very generous four out of 10 star rating.
—EW.com, 29 June 2024
Friedel also points to a relevant source of inspiration for him and Glazer: the final scene of the documentary The Act of Killing, in which a war criminal — the genocidal Indonesian gangster Anwar Congo — also breaks into a fit of retching, as if finally overcome by what he’s done.
—A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 10 Mar. 2024
There’s one scene in particular that will have audiences buzzing, or retching, or both — suffice it to say this is not a film to be screened at Lamaze classes.
—Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Apr. 2024
By contrast, Garner and Helms are game for anything — including belching, farting and retching — but all their enthusiastic mugging can’t mask the fact that CC and Wyatt aren’t much more than a stereotypical surly teen and a stereotypical geek.
—Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
The camera then cut to the princess in the bathroom, retching.
—Louis Staples, Rolling Stone, 18 Nov. 2023
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“Retch.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/retch. Accessed 11 May. 2025.
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: to try to vomit
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