cough up

How To Use cough up In A Sentence

• He claims I'm harboring a business associate and demands that I ‘cough up the stoolie.’
• My voice is like sandpaper, I cough up gobs of phlegm, my liver feels like a sandbag.
• Is it not possible that tuberculous badgers cough up infected sputum onto grass which is then eaten by cattle? Times, Sunday Times
• By forcing them to wear their underpants on the outside of their trousers until they cough up. The Sun
• You owe me twenty pounds. Come on, cough up!
• In the case of gapeworms (often caught from pheasants) the birds will be seen gaping after exertion and attempting to cough up the worms which are anchored in the windpipe.
• I'm coming up a bit short this month and the credit card company says that they will have to resort to the thumbscrew and hot irons strategy if I don't cough up.
• When the time came to pay we were expected to cough up the same amount as if we had had consumed a far more expensive cut of prime meat.
• Indeed, it often appears to the Asians that the US and Europe are generally only solicitous of their views and insights, when it's time to cough up more money for another misconceived bailout.
• It thins mucus in air passages and makes it easier to cough up mucus and clear airways, allowing easier breathing.