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How can you use “phlegm” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass.
' 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.
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 .
Gleet was originally described as a `slimy matter' (1400), sticky or greasy, characteristically as `phlegm collected in the stomach, especially of the hawk.
Hippocrates believed the answer was in the balance of four bodily fluids, or humors--blood, black bile, phlegm, and yellow bile.