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coughing up

NOUN
  1. the act of expelling (food or phlegm) by coughing

How To Use coughing up In A Sentence

  • When the mysterious promoter shows signs of not coughing up the money, Fifi and chums storm backstage, call him a "motherfucker" and shove a shotgun in his face.
  • That night, I lay on my dorm bed coughing up sawdust. Times, Sunday Times
  • British galleries and museums are not used to coughing up for loans, most of which are free or on a reciprocal arrangement. Times, Sunday Times
  • You've probably seen - and heard - them in the gym: people sniffling, sneezing, coughing up phlegm.
  • Mobiles ringing in the dressing room, lateness and the wrong kit are all transgressions that can lead to coughing up dollars.
  • We waded ashore coughing up salt water and drenched to the skin.
  • Sometimes he would wake up in the middle of the night covered in sweat and his white pillow would be red from coughing up blood.
  • She had begun to feel as if she were coughing up her own lungs.
  • Soused patrons sit in the flesh-friendly nightclub's back area, coughing up $20 for lap dances as hip-hop songs blare on the speakers.
  • He went to bed saying he felt cold and shivery and he awoke at 5am the following day coughing up blood.
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