How to Use regurgitate in a Sentence

regurgitate

verb

• The bird regurgitates to feed its young.
• The bird regurgitates food to feed its young.
• The speaker was just regurgitating facts and figures.
• She memorized the historical dates only to regurgitate them on the exam.
• Small birds pick at the fruits and large ones swallow them whole, then regurgitate the seeds onto the ground.
  — Jennie Erin Smith, New York Times, 5 Nov. 2019
• Do not burn, squeeze, twist or smother the tick, since this may cause it to regurgitate.
  — Joyce Sakamoto, Washington Post, 18 June 2018
• After it was caught, the snake began to regurgitate the fawn.
  — Doug Phillips, Sun-Sentinel.com, 2 Mar. 2018
• If the colony’s food stores run low, the repletes regurgitate what’s in their bellies for other ants to feed on.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 July 2023
• At the same time, if a replay review is butchered in New York, the poor crew chief on the field can do nothing more but regurgitate the error.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2022
• Manuel and Bowa aren’t paid to regurgitate the company line.
  — Marcus Hayes, Philly.com, 29 Mar. 2018
• The whole idea is to create problem solvers who have learned how to learn, rather than regurgitate knowledge.
  — Aryn Baker/mauritius, Time, 11 June 2019
• The move stressed the animal, though, leading it to regurgitate its prey.
  — Jared Gilmour, miamiherald, 1 Mar. 2018
• In the wild, a pup licks its mother's face and lips, stimulating her to regurgitate food for it.
  — Kim Campbell Thornton, Star Tribune, 7 May 2021
• Tokuda follows the Jagras at a safe distance, which returns to its pack and regurgitates the meal for a feast.
  — Simon Parkin, Ars Technica, 26 June 2017
• The new parents take turns babysitting: While one penguin takes care of the chick, the other goes out to sea and swallows lots of fish to regurgitate later.
  — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 13 Apr. 2012
• To do that, though, the sheep will regurgitate the plant matter and grind it up with its back molars — similar to how the sheepshead fish uses its back teeth to grind up shells.
  — Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 12 June 2023
• The goal is not to regurgitate frame by frame but to grow more aware of the infrastructure of filmmaking: blocking, staging, depth, and the like.
  — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 22 June 2023
• Flamingos Male and female flamingos make crop milk, too, and regurgitate it into their chicks’ mouths for up to six months.
  — Christina Szalinski, Discover Magazine, 24 June 2021
• Are you subscribed to a million Substacks that all regurgitate the same discourse on how the U.S.-China trade war is impacting stay-at-home dads?
  — Irving Ruan, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2023
• Then, the insects will hang from the ceiling of their underground colonies and regurgitate the liquid to feed hungry housemates.
  — Liz Langley, National Geographic, 30 Oct. 2019
• More notably, however, the plaintiffs allege in the suit that Claude would regurgitate the lyrics to songs when given broader prompts as well.
  — Ethan Millman, Rolling Stone, 18 Oct. 2023
• In this day and age, people are happy to consume rumors and then regurgitate them in toxic judgment, but the truth has a way of weaseling its way to the surface.
  — Evan Bass, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 June 2017
• As the royals don’t leave their chamber, workers give them regurgitated food from their own mouths.
  — Elizabeth Preston, New York Times, 5 May 2023
• Sadie, the female, nursed the pups, and both parents regurgitated food to help their kiddos transition from Sadie’s milk to solid food.
  — Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 7 Feb. 2024
• Almost instantly, the snake regurgitated a third gecko that popped out bright red.
  — Sarah Gibbens, National Geographic, 22 Aug. 2017
• Almost instantly, the snake regurgitated a third gecko that popped out bright red.
  — Sarah Gibbens, National Geographic, 22 Aug. 2017
• Your characters will often stop to talk … and talk, and talk, and talk, and never stop talking, regurgitating the same plot points over and over again to the point of absurdity.
  — Jason Schreier, WIRED, 29 Nov. 2010
• That’s more than just the Fox crowd regurgitating the right-wing narrative of California as the spawning ground of social evils.
  — Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2024
• At the same time, a lot of stuff looks the same, with trends endlessly regurgitated on Instagram and reproduced by brand after brand.
  — Eliza Brooke, Vox, 27 Dec. 2018
• They were forced to read it in school, as a kind of national treasure to be admired rather than enjoyed—to memorize its set pieces, to regurgitate its messages.
  — Peter Brooks, The New York Review of Books, 5 Oct. 2022

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024