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Example sentences for "retching"

Lexicographically close words:
retarding; retards; retayned; retch; retched; rete; reteine; reteined; reteining; retell
  1. The symptoms here are not so severe; the horse will be seen occasionally to draw himself up, arch his neck, and make retching movements as though he wished to vomit.

  2. There will be some symptoms of distress, fullness of the abdomen, cough, and occasionally retching movements.

  3. Whatever drinks are swallowed by the infant are rejected immediately or after a few moments, or retching may occur without vomiting.

  4. The mucus and stomach-juice accumulating over night, in the morning there is much retching and nausea until the acid and rather foul contents of the organ come up.

  5. It is usually best to persist until retching occurs, as the cords are then forced together to protect the larynx and trachea from the possible entrance of regurgitated stomach contents.

  6. Let not the reader who tries laryngoscopic investigations be discouraged if, at first, violent retching is the result.

  7. I know no instance in which convulsions have arisen from retching and vomiting.

  8. Taylor that all this retching and vomiting was the result of a constant dosing with antimonial poison.

  9. Those who fancied themselves particularly broad-minded made the exquisite distinction that it was only the German Government which aroused them to hysteria; the rest were worked up to a condition of retching indecency.

  10. And on his torn and bleeding lips it was like a pitiful retching of the soul.

  11. His confidence oozed from him in great retching emanations that seemed to be sections of his own body.

  12. On the slightest nourishment being taken, retching and vomiting ensue, the stomach being irritated beyond all possibility of its doing its work.

  13. Applied to the skin over a stomach which has been rejecting all food, and even retching on emptiness, for hours, it will almost at once stop the irritation.

  14. In half-an-hour all retching should cease.

  15. We have seen, even in very bad cases of cancer, such an application cause all retching to cease almost at once.

  16. In violent vomiting or retching the diaphragm is made to descend by the chest being filled with air; it is then held in this position by the closure of the glottis, "as well as by the contraction of its own fibres.

  17. The cries and retching gradually abated, and he died.

  18. I did not leave him until after midnight, but was soon roused by his loud screams, and the dog was also retching violently.

  19. This can usually be felt by the patient as a pricking sensation in the throat, and may produce retching and coughing.

  20. A certain amount of fluid always escapes into the throat although the catheter is in its right position, and this may set up an attack of retching and coughing.

  21. If the catheter be in the correct position, the patient should be able to talk without discomfort, and there should be no tendency to retching or coughing.

  22. The pebble and bottle-heel swallower does--but brings them up again, by a system of retching which results from long practice.

  23. The Japanese have an egg-swallowing trick in which they swallow either small-sized ivory balls or eggs, and reproduce them by a retching so unnoticeable that they could easily show the mouth empty.

  24. There is commonly a feeling of general malaise, and then violent retching and vomiting.

  25. Retching and vomiting occurred almost incessantly, and he constantly placed his hand over the cardiac region.

  26. At the moment of swallowing, a disagreeable taste and smell are generally experienced, and there may be immediate and intense pain in the throat, gullet, and stomach, and almost immediate retching and vomiting.

  27. The retching and vomiting are very obstinate, and continue for a long time; the matters thrown up are sometimes streaked with blood; there is pain in the abdomen of a colicky character--a pain relieved by pressure.

  28. Soon I was retching violently and my stomach, long since devoid of all possible contents, began hurling its digestive acids up my throat, followed by bile, bitter and green, which burned like fire.

  29. Knowing that we would soon be wrapped in our own blankets improved my spirits to a great degree, despite haphazard retching sprees and pervasive weakness.

  30. Occasionally violent attempts at retching occur during the operation; but there is little pain or hemorrhage.

  31. If no retching or gastric uneasiness should ensue, it may be repeated at the end of thirty minutes.

  32. The vomiting and retching are not gastric symptoms at all, but, as already stated, are due to the irritation of the congestive or inflammatory process at the base of the brain.

  33. The abdominal contractions are often well marked, and retching and vomiting ensue.

  34. The red stump with the disc of severed bone in the middle was cleaned and bandaged and he was carried back to the prisoners' ward, retching and vomiting.

  35. Under its influence men became unconscious quickly and without a struggle, and they recovered consciousness without the fearful retching and vomiting that always followed the use of chloroform or ether.

  36. For a long moment he could only cling to the rock which had saved him, retching and dazed, as the water washed about his body, a current tugging at his trailing legs.

  37. He rolled on his side, retching violently until the sour smell of his illness battled the foul odor of the ship.

  38. I know of no case in which they resulted from retching and vomiting.

  39. No more was seen of the parties until half-past nine at night, when Mrs. Gillett was again called in by the prisoner, and found the husband in bed retching violently, and complaining of a burning pain in his chest and stomach.

  40. When the prisoner called me in a little after nine in the evening, I found her husband in bed retching violently, and I gave him water half-a-dozen times, and then went for Dr.

  41. Persons suffering from sickness after food are relieved by vomiting; but in the case of Mrs. James there was considerable retching after the food was thrown off the stomach.

  42. She was retching very much, and sitting in a chair.

  43. He was retching and vomiting; the vomit was a small quantity of dark-coloured fluid.

  44. Mothers lying on their backs with open mouths and closed eyes, more dead than alive, had infants at their breasts; and it was fearful to see how the retching convulsed them.

  45. My lady is retching her soul away, if she has such a thing as a soul.

  46. He turned, with a freezing look of surprise, plucked at the haft, made one step calmly and tentatively toward the door, stumbled, and lay retching and coughing.

  47. Rudolph saw again the lighted shop, the tumbled figure retching on the floor; and with these came a memory of that cold and scornful face, thinking so cruelly among the unthinking rabble.

  48. Soon that came in the person of a young lady three months advanced in her first pregnancy who was suffering from a deathly nausea, with vomiting and retching so prolonged and violent as to produce haematemesis.

  49. I started down stairs and had a violent attack of nausea and a great deal of retching before I could vomit.

  50. And nearly every case of retching or vomiting (except it be reflex) will promptly yield under its use.

  51. In this case opium and morphine were given; this was very bad treatment, for these drugs always produce nausea and vomiting, exactly what was not desired because of the evil effect the retching had on the forming abscess.

  52. It is true that these cases frequently vomit the first three days after the obstruction, but there is practically no danger from retching that early in the disease.

  53. The face immediately becomes blue and engorged, the patient is speechless, and violent efforts are made to eject the object by retching and coughing.

  54. Narayan gave a gasping, retching sound, and I whirled in time to see him jerk out his electrorod, spasmodically, and fire shot after wild shot at the stumbling figure that had been our man.

  55. I was sick and retching with horror before the metamorphosis was half complete, and turned away my eyes; Cynara was sobbing softly into her skirt; but Adric, frozen, could not look away.


  56. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "retching" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.