How To Use Cough up In A Sentence
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He claims I'm harboring a business associate and demands that I ‘cough up the stoolie.’
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My voice is like sandpaper, I cough up gobs of phlegm, my liver feels like a sandbag.
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Is it not possible that tuberculous badgers cough up infected sputum onto grass which is then eaten by cattle?
Times, Sunday Times
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By forcing them to wear their underpants on the outside of their trousers until they cough up.
The Sun
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You owe me twenty pounds. Come on, cough up!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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It thins mucus in air passages and makes it easier to cough up mucus and clear airways, allowing easier breathing.
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Since the mid-1980s, his team has been studying a great skua breeding colony, analyzing bones and feathers in pellets that skuas cough up after feeding.
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She glanced off the platform and then back at him, hoping that he would believe her bluff and cough up the money.
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To access the tasteful and beautifully-lit photos, you'll have to cough up some wonga.
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It's the recurring question constantly spouted out by dance students who have to cough up readies to fund dance courses.
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Bad service loses people business and annoys customers - and customers need to feel that they are getting good service in order to cough up for it.
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And he called on Brussels to cough up more aid cash to help Egypt cope with the influx.
The Sun
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Victims will no longer have to cough up for lawyers to chase rogue traders through the courts to get their money back.
The Sun
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Under the government guidelines, journalists cough up a handsome sum of money to the government and individual officials.
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Even if the cricket committee did want to go for a top name, it is not certain that the hard-up club would be able to agree to cough up the wages.
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Conmen are attempting to make people cough up bogus traffic fines after they return from trips abroad.
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I've just had to cough up £10 for a parking fine.
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He coughed up blood once and thought that if he didn't cough up more tomorrow, there was no need to worry.
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And he called on Brussels to cough up more aid cash to help Egypt cope with the influx.
The Sun
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A copybook tackle from Taylor forced Shaun Briscoe to cough up possession, giving Leigh position from where Rob Jackson could spin out of a couple of tackles to touchdown for a try goaled from the sideline by Owen.
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However, if you happen to be out with me, just don't expect me to cough up for a tip if the service has been average or lousy.
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The idea that the government is going to cough up funds to fence off threatened fisheries is pie in the sky.
Times, Sunday Times
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And he called on Brussels to cough up more aid cash to help Egypt cope with the influx.
The Sun
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Will this be enough to persuade Congress to cough up?
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But as the price climbs higher and higher, station operators have to cough up more and more of what they call interchange fees to the credit card company.
CNN Transcript Jun 19, 2008
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If you want truly unbiased advice, swallow hard and cough up a fee - with any commission rebated back to you, of course.
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King's experimental technique for selling The Plant on an honesty basis - fans can read the chapter before they cough up their $1-appears successful.
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And in a usage book he published a few years ago, Bill Bryson contended that it was wrong to use "expectorate" as a synonym for "spit," since it really means to cough up phlegm from the chest.
'Equation,' 'Gingerly' And Other Linguistic Pet Peeves
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You owe me ￡20. Come on, cough up!
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Victims will no longer have to cough up for lawyers to chase rogue traders through the courts to get their money back.
The Sun
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He could not but cough up his political scandal.
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With "You Are Where You Live," now you can discover what your pigeonhole is called -- just enter your ZIP code and the service will cough up your most likely demographic info (I'm either a Successful Single, a Mover And Shaker, a Mid-Life Success, a Great Beginning or an Urban Up And Comer).
Boing Boing: August 19, 2001 - August 25, 2001 Archives
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The deep discount means that if the shareholders don't cough up, their existing shareholdings will be diluted.
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Anyway, if OM is slow to cough up any snippets about old girlfriends, fiancees or even wives, he makes up for it by being very chatty, which is great as I've dated many a man who has gone silent as soon as the waitress has taken the order.
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Normally I could persuade my employers to cough up for this, but I'm increasingly hopping between companies where that's not an option.
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And only two skinflints, or gentlemen of an extremely strong constitution, have so far refused to cough up.
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I see you wake up to the sound of bagpipes at six a.m., pet show dogs at noon, and cough up Scotch eggs and mini donuts at five.
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Then, an educated elite was seen as just as important to the running of society as collecting rubbish from the street; and just as the graduate would pay tax for the dustman, so the dustman should cough up for the philosopher.
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Daughters are disfavoured because families have to cough up huge dowries when they wed - which can range from US $100 to a new car, jewellery, apartments or more, depending on a family's social standing.
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Doctors were worried when she started to cough up blood.
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Most of Europe enjoys same-day transfers but our only current option for a high speed service is to cough up between £15 and £20 for a clearing house payment.
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Collection agencies across the country are trying to get him to cough up for debts that other people have racked up with the SSN they cleaned from the ad.
Anti-Identity-Theft Huckster Has Had Identity Stolen At Least 13 Times | Impact Lab
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In order to compel its production, I might file a motion with the court asking (or in legalese, "praying") the court to force my opponent to cough up the object of my professional desire.
Vail Daily - Top Stories
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For the last two weeks I have seldom stirred out of bed except for meals, reading-matter, or to visit the toilet and cough up chartreuse slime.
‘We Didn’t Start the Flame War’
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Victims will no longer have to cough up for lawyers to chase rogue traders through the courts to get their money back.
The Sun
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How many times can you say ‘good mid-tempo rootsy rocker’ or ‘folk-inflected acoustic ballad’ before you cough up a lung into your coffee cup, anyway?
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The sniffles turn into a really sore throat, you start to cough up green or yellow coloured phlegm and you begin to run a fever.
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Not like you had any choice about the matter, packed lunches were banned, so you had to cough up.
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Of course, because the taxpayer has no choice but to cough up, this gangrenous tumescence keeps bulging as the services provided become more emaciated and anaemic.
Five Go Camping In Hampshire « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
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Soon it will not just be motorhome drivers who will have to cough up.
Times, Sunday Times
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A high-frequency whine electrifies the track throughout while several multi-tracked guitars try to cough up a creaky melody.
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To really take in the majesty of the alps, I highly recommend you cough up the money for a go at skydiving.
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All that puts me off being an owl is the way they cough up their undigested food - then again, we humans have some pretty bad habits too.
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And he called on Brussels to cough up more aid cash to help Egypt cope with the influx.
The Sun
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I may have county court judgments against me and it might affect my ability to get credit, which make some people nervous enough to cough up.
Times, Sunday Times
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To them that means spending billions more on repairing and building roads, bridges, and schools, pumping up manufacturing with federal funds, arm-twisting major corporations to spend more on job creation here and not in other countries, extending unemployment insurance benefits, and continuing to pound away on the rich to cough up more in tax revenues to bankroll a sweeping jobs program.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson: President Obama Caught Between the Left and Right on Jobs
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Will this be enough to persuade Congress to cough up?
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People glimpse the spectre of their having to cough up their full premium once again and tiptoe to the dark side.
Times, Sunday Times
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Soon it will not just be motorhome drivers who will have to cough up.
Times, Sunday Times
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And meanwhile we are expected to cough up another £450,000 by charitable donations to buy furniture for the new hospital.
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He said it was a scandal that at a time when the Beladd Park houses were being built the Irish people had to cough up three times the average price to build the houses.
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I may have county court judgments against me and it might affect my ability to get credit, which make some people nervous enough to cough up.
Times, Sunday Times
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There's a lot of mucous to cough up, and your throat is a little sore from putting the tube down in it," Mr. Anderson says.
New Surgery to Treat Asthma
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Some suggest that Jackson is so skint that last year he was forced to cough up a $2 million diamond watch as collateral for a bank loan.
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I felt mortified at some neighbours feeling obliged to cough up dosh.
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People glimpse the spectre of their having to cough up their full premium once again and tiptoe to the dark side.
Times, Sunday Times
