Example sentences for: vomit

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

  • Episodes recorded in Kinski Uncut fall into four categories: 1) sexual encounters with hundreds of women, beautiful and ugly, young and old, in a grotesque pornographic idiom that excludes sensual pleasure; 2) Céline-esque voyages of degradation and misery, often involving vomit, excrement, and delirium; 3) excoriations of incompetent directors, producers, writers, actors, journalists, and generally, all individuals who are not Kinski; 4) bouts of self-righteousness mixed with intense self-loathing.

  • The movie's main meanie, "Pig Vomit," is a composite of several oppressive managers, based most heavily on Kevin Metheny (a program manager nicknamed "Pig Virus" by Stern).

  • to cat or shoot the cat to vomit from drunkenness.

  • While the adaptation is respectful, it "mostly misses the humor, lyricism and emotional charge of Frank McCourt's magical and magnificent memoir" and unfortunately becomes "something resembling a conventional tale of a gifted young man's struggle to lift himself out of oppressive circumstances" (Todd McCarthy, Variety ). The harshest complaint: It's just "two hours and 20 minutes of beautifully photographed rain, mud, blood, lice, vomit, dead babies, and whining" (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ). The more upbeat take: The movie is "a thinner version of the novel, but you still get a drama that has you laughing and brokenhearted" (Desson Howe, the Washington Post ). (Click here to read an excerpt from the book.)

  • The Times's "Arts & Leisure" section caricatures the carnival-like scene: Protesting Catholics prayed and handed out vomit bags.


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