How to Use disgorge in a Sentence

disgorge

verb

• The river disgorges into the ocean just south of the city.
• The damaged ship disgorged thousands of gallons of oil into the bay.
• We watched the airplane disgorging its passengers at the gate.
• The committee agreed to disgorge $2,000 from the funds.
  — Stephanie Ebbert, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Nov. 2022
• The feeling was sucked out, the bare facts remaining, like the fibre disgorged by the juicer.
  — Kate Folk, The New Yorker, 16 Mar. 2020
• And, for perhaps the first time in his life, disgorging more lies won’t help him deflect the blame.
  — Mark Joseph Stern, Slate Magazine, 9 June 2017
• The last night of December brings lightning and thunder and rain to the desert, the sky disgorging the remnants of the year.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Oct. 2022
• The ceiling of the downstairs loo had flapped open and disgorged a pint of rainwater.
  — Jo Rodgers, Vogue, 14 Feb. 2018
• Homan declined to comment on calls to disgorge those funds.
  — Joseph Morton, Dallas News, 17 Apr. 2023
• Baumhefner took the bottles off Ployez’s hands and disgorged and finished the wines himself.
  — Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Dec. 2017
• But on the south, a deep, wide ditch just outside the city’s wall kept the siege towers from closing to disgorge their cargoes of armed men.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 24 July 2019
• This wine spends 44 months on lees and was just disgorged a few months back, giving some lovely brioche toastiness.
  — Jeanne O'Brien Coffey, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2024
• There may be pricier truffles and treats in this world, covered in gold flakes or disgorged from a goose's belly.
  — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 28 Oct. 2018
• Its restaurant, which serves dim sum and rice porridge, looks out over trucks disgorging cargo on the pier.
  — Peter S. Goodman Ulet Ifansasti, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2023
• Three times a day, the shift changes swallowed and disgorged meninto the archipelago of bars and sandwich shops outside the gates.
  — Tara Bahrampour, Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2017
• The buyer will then decide when to disgorge (between 3 and 10 years after the harvest) and how much dosage (sugar) should be added.
  — Per and Britt Karlsson, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2021
• Hundreds of buses flow off the Bay Bridge onto the bus deck, disgorging tens of thousands of passengers in the morning and taking them home in the evening.
  — Michael Cabanatuan, SFChronicle.com, 23 Dec. 2019
• Vehicles with cracked windshields and bullet holes line the roadside, their contents disgorged along the berms.
  — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2023
• Brokers who self-report will not face fines but will be required to 'disgorge' excess commissions back to the clients.
  — Stewart Welch, AL.com, 3 May 2018
• The plans call for some kind of air component — fighter jets will most likely be buzzing the Capitol and helicopters will disgorge troops.
  — Helene Cooper, New York Times, 27 May 2018
• In Windsor, the bridge disgorges traffic into narrow city streets.
  — The Economist, 7 Sep. 2017
• Every day, from front-line towns and cities across the country, trains disgorged throngs of desperate people seeking safe haven.
  — Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2024
• Because sediment is not disgorged, the wine is slightly cloudy.
  — Ellen Bhang, BostonGlobe.com, 29 July 2019
• Buses disgorge children in school uniforms on class trips.
  — New York Times, 18 Dec. 2021
• Some, through his exertions and by the assistance of citizens, were caught and compelled to disgorge.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Oct. 2021
• The Charleroi filled up and emptied, picking up and disgorging passengers.
  — Rachel Cusk, Harper's Magazine, 20 Sep. 2023
• Every five or six days, one of my six mushroom kits would disgorge a pile of fleshy appendages, always faster than seemed reasonable.
  — New York Times, 7 Feb. 2021
• Subway trains clattered along their tracks, their doors squealing open to disgorge crowds of passengers.
  — Ryan Lenora Brown, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Apr. 2020
• Some day soon, cruise ships will disgorge frolicking pensioners not by the palm-fringed Persian Gulf but on the balmy Pakistan Riviera.
  — The Economist, 22 July 2017
• But some trenches still disgorged untreated wastewater into the river.
  — Jessica Leigh Hester, The Atlantic, 31 July 2024

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024