How to Use puke in a Sentence

puke

verb

• 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
• Part of the crowd was delighted; the rest wanted to puke.
  — Popular Science, 20 July 2023
• The [expletive] ODs right in front of my cell, puking blood.
  — Andrew Ryan, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Mar. 2023
• Either or, the hope is that nobody wants to puke afterward.
  — George Diaz, OrlandoSentinel.com, 27 June 2017
• 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
• The mewling, puking newborn that is the e-book market has few contenders.
  — Charlie Sorrel, WIRED, 12 May 2008
• 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
• Why dwell on the possibility of getting sick and puking all over the place?
  — Lori D. Johnson, The Root, 3 June 2018
• No one’s hammered or puking in the aisles or getting into a fight or anything.
  — From Wire Reports, Dallas News, 15 Sep. 2023
• If a cop cannot tolerate being puked on, spat upon, cursed at, etc.
  — Mara H. Gottfried, Twin Cities, 4 May 2017
• 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
• Grown men and women are sobbing, begging, puking from fear.
  — Jordan Hoffman, VanityFair.com, 16 Mar. 2017
• For more about staying fit in orbit and some pro tips for puking in microgravity, check out the video above.
  — Wired, 15 Oct. 2019
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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’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
• 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.
  — Vulture, 8 Sep. 2023
• 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
• 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
• Wallace’s essay has been regularly quoted over the past 15 years -- so regularly that its mention here surely will make some Nadal and Djokovic fans want to puke.
  — oregonlive, 2 Mar. 2021
• 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
• Even the sophisticated ones probably puked up in somebody’s garden.
  — Melinda Newman, Billboard, 1 Aug. 2017
• U of L gets out healthy: Wilson chucked up his breakfast after his first college rushing attempt and reception, continuing Louisville's recent tradition of puking in games.
  — Jeff Greer, The Courier-Journal, 23 Sep. 2017
• There are skulls in a field, a man puking fire, groovy astronauts, disarming visages, a whale fluke, an umbrella in the rain, cool fonts, arresting colors, and two Victorian-era children standing with a tiger (for Neutral Milk Hotel).
  — Nina MacLaughlin, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Mar. 2023
• But Calm Island would be an immersive, synesthetic experience designed to evoke nostalgia and imagination—not your typical amusement park, with its sweat and crush and puke and scream.
  — Annie Lowrey, The Atlantic, 4 June 2021

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024