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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Back then, a nearby Catholic school, run by French nuns, disgorged a parade of smiling young schoolgirls in their conical hats and flowing white áo dàis.
    Jeff Stein, Newsweek, 18 Oct. 2017
  • For many people this week, that reminder came in the form of a stomach-churning video that captured one snake disgorging another.
    Peter Holley, Washington Post, 3 June 2017
  • Currie has amassed an array of era-spanning spoils evocative of treasures disgorged from the hold of a ship after a long voyage to exotic ports.
    Mitchell Owens, ELLE Decor, 7 Nov. 2009

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