How to Use barf in a Sentence

barf

verb
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  • The movie was so disgusting that it made me want to barf.
  • Your pulse speeds up, you get flushed, have a headache, feel weak and dizzy, then barf.
    — Popular Science, 11 Mar. 2020
  • Your pulse speeds up, you get flushed, have a headache, feel weak and dizzy, then barf.
    — Popular Science, 11 Mar. 2020
  • Mike has to barf at the violent movie, and Jacob owns him for it.
    — Emma Specter, Vogue, 30 July 2021
  • Triathletes crap and barf all over themselves all the time and nobody waits.
    — Marc Peruzzi, Outside Online, 15 May 2018
  • Once a derelict came staggering toward us and then collapsed and barfed onto the curb.
    — Tal Rosenberg, Chicago Reader, 6 Sep. 2017
  • The movie version is a shrieking CGI carnival full of poop jokes and barfing pumpkins.
    — Tasha Robinson, The Verge, 23 Sep. 2018
  • Karl Marx is barfing in the street, but Friedrich Engels—cool as a German pastry under his blonde haircut and expensive hat—is fine.
    — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 2 Mar. 2018
  • For the rest of us, wiping kid barf off our clothes and taking the bus to work, the disparity between these influencers’ lifestyles and ours is overwhelming.
    — Abby Langer, SELF, 2 Oct. 2018
  • Some people have tapped out and others are trying not to barf in their water bucket, but the serious eaters are often bouncing around, Thriller-in-Manila-style.
    — Aj Willingham, CNN, 4 July 2019
  • Even in the land of normals, being this openly, barf-inducingly cute on Instagram isn’t really allowed.
    — Rebecca Farley, refinery29.com, 1 June 2018
  • The inventory caters to health-conscious, affluent millennials rushing to their next meeting and could leave the stoner-slacker crowd searching aimlessly for the machine that barfs out chili and cheese with the push of a button.
    — Spencer Soper, Houston Chronicle, 21 Jan. 2018
  • Instead of erupting explosively and filling the sky with ash, Hawaiian volcanoes tend to simply barf up lava flows—which can generally be escaped at a brisk walking pace.
    — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 11 May 2018

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