Example sentences for: phlegm

How can you use “phlegm” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Gleet was originally described as a `slimy matter' (1400), sticky or greasy, characteristically as `phlegm collected in the stomach, especially of the hawk.

  • ' Phlegm eventually came to refer to mucus (1662) and to be hawked (1604) from the sinuses or lungs of people with respiratory tract irritation or infection.

  • Hippocrates believed the answer was in the balance of four bodily fluids, or humors--blood, black bile, phlegm, and yellow bile.

  • When you become disgusted, the sound from your throat sounds like a gathering of phlegm, variously rendered as ugh, yuk , or Mad magazine's famous yecch —but often when people repeat those sounds, what comes out is ug, yuck , and even yetch .

  • Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass.


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