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    cough


    coughed


    coughing


    coughs


    1. of his throat and his first sound was little more than a muffled cough


    2. The angelic don't cough but they do shuffle their feet and that was about the only noise left in this parade ground


    3. began to cough up some of the water he had swallowed accidentally


    4. The words that he wanted to conjure up caught at the back of his throat and his first sound was little more than a muffled cough


    5. Dust hacks away at our sleep as the old ones cough


    6. The sleeper stifles a cough


    7. there is an awkward moment, a cough,


    8. I cough slightly trying to clear my throat


    9. I cough, so that in hearing the sound,


    10. For me it begins with a cough - him clearing his voice

    11. Once they thought they were safely out of their children's line of sight, they lit much-needed cigarettes, took the smoke down into their lungs in huge gulps and started to laugh and cough all at the same time


    12. Raki is good for bad cough, stiff legs, when you are cut or aching in the heart


    13. After a while, he straightened his back, coughed a special postman's cough, then when he was ready, looked up, peered over the rim of his glasses and winced


    14. The air in there was thick and the incense made me cough and stung my eyes


    15. laugh and cough all at the same time


    16. three times and on the fourth Johnny spit up some water and began to cough


    17. ‘And now he’s dead too – d’you think his parents would cough up for her treatment?’


    18. A revving engine in the barn at the back of the courtyard buries the sound of death in a diesel cough of thick oil and cold metal


    19. Jack’s cry only got higher and now there was a mucousy cough with it


    20. He shuddered, and again made a sound between a cough and a sob

    21. She prized the cap off the unopened bottle of Xanax and proceeded to swallow them with the cognac, taking five or so at a time until the bottle was finished, breathing deeply as she did so in order to not cough from the spirit intake


    22. If not, the day after tomorrow I will cough


    23. to cough after all the rules, namely as it is usual


    24. Sammy had developed whooping cough, and it was three weeks before he was able to leave the house again


    25. “I had whooping cough


    26. He settled back onto his stretcher and I leant over and gave him a smoke from my cigarette case that Helen had bought me and which he had admired we lit up though the cough that wracked his body didn’t bode well for his future


    27. By the time they arrived home, they began to cough


    28. Soon, she developed a cough


    29. His body was torn by damaging coughs until suddenly, in the midst of a cough, he stopped and took a deep, sighing breath


    30. “Tell me about this munitions job as its better to hear it first hand than from one of the girls and judging by that cough and the colour of your skin it is non to healthy

    31. But once they started getting batter there was not a lot for me to do round here”, a cough racked her frame again


    32. ” A cough racked her again and she said


    33. the grunt into a cough, which might have been


    34. Then another cough racked her body and she shook in what I though was a fit but as I was about to send for Helen it passed


    35. ” Another cough rattled her chest as she continued


    36. Now as the guns settled down into their rhythm you could hear the different types of guns the howitzers would cough their shells out and they sounded a bit like the trench-mortars only about twenty times as loud


    37. Anise acts as an expectorant, ginger soothes the cough, and cinnamon has anti-bacterial properties


    38. Stop that Cough Tea


    39. He gasped for air, and it came with a cough that spluttered with blood and saliva


    40. Her hacking cough had become unproductive, and even breathing was a chore

    41. The bald headed man in a beige suit made a slight cough as he was about to speak


    42. The pirate never got a chance to finish the sentence, since Cheeryup took that moment to throw the handful of dirt and gravel she’d been hiding in her fist into his open, blabbering mouth, making him gag, sputter, and cough


    43. Sheena heard the sound of a match striking and then a soft cough as her friend filled his lungs with smoke


    44. "The yellow cough? Are you sure?" When Slikit nodded yes, Soffen's heart sank


    45. From the moment Slikit had stumbled across the unconscious boar, he'd known that the badger was suffering from yellow cough but had chosen to ignore the fact


    46. Yellow cough was a slow and painful way to die, feared by all badgers


    47. The first sign was an innocuous cough, quickly followed by the spitting up of a thick yellow pus, often laced with blood


    48. "No female, I have no fear of the yellow cough, indeed not


    49. In his experience, any badger unlucky enough to catch Yellow Cough always died


    50. His cough had disappeared and he silently thanked Soffen and her powers of healing for that but now there was something else wrong













































    1. He coughed once before an arrow was fired into his face


    2. Travis coughed and gave a grim laugh


    3. I sat back in my usual submissive position on the mattress, coughed and waited for the door to open again


    4. reduce to fits of vehement coughing till she coughed out


    5. I coughed and stood before him, 'Kalimera


    6. One of the men coughed


    7. Someone coughed and woke me up and I knew at once it was me


    8. After a while, he straightened his back, coughed a special postman's cough, then when he was ready, looked up, peered over the rim of his glasses and winced


    9. Auntie waved and waved as the van coughed and farted down the mountain to the airport for the second time that day


    10. coughed and closed his eyes as pain wracked his

    11. It coughed loudly in the silence, raising spectres of discovery in his head


    12. Heather coughed on her inhale and then held the cigarette vertical in front


    13. were down, I coughed hard and then tried to wash the taste away with beer


    14. The machines coughed and spluttered, then surged into life, roaring and screeching they ambled forward taking the Clothiers fencing down in one concerted hit, then thudded on through the grass paddocks towards Dort Valley crossroads


    15. Clothier clambered into the basket and Fizzicist juggled a few knobs, then turned the propeller quickly, it coughed and spluttered twice


    16. ” She coughed into her palm and cleared her throat


    17. Nerissa coughed to hide a smile


    18. Maileena coughed as she regained her breath


    19. “Not at all,” he said and coughed


    20. “So’s the air,” coughed Jenny, finding the atmosphere in the shaft barely breathable, fumes from the fire still prevalent

    21. Melissa coughed to clear her throat and then wiped her mouth with her already grubby sleeve


    22. Looking over the tops of our heads he coughed waited a moment and then went on


    23. The CSM coughed and continued


    24. “That stuff stinks!” coughed Ky


    25. He coughed and then spat on the floor before carrying on again


    26. ” The Captain coughed apologetically as he asked


    27. ” He coughed saying


    28. ” Sam coughed and I heard a distinct rattle in his throat that concerned me a bit and I told him to stop if he was tired or his wounds were hurting him too much


    29. She only noticed Palman was there when he coughed


    30. ’ Parmayan coughed and then winced, clearly in pain

    31. ” Archie coughed and the wiped his face with is hand in a gesture of emotional fatigue


    32. Sharon coughed, very pointedly, from her


    33. ” He coughed and continued


    34. “Because of Helen of course he has never gotten over her dropping him and he never will he loves her with a demented evil love and he will never forgive you because she loves you so much”, she coughed again but it soon subsided


    35. She laughed and then coughed saying


    36. ” He coughed and then continued saying


    37. ” He shivered a bit and coughed and I watched as the blood ran down his chin I mopped it off as he continued


    38. ” He coughed then said


    39. “It…” His voice caught in his throat, and he coughed to clear it


    40. I shrugged my shoulders and lit another fag I coughed and thought these things are going to kill you but then I laughed at the absurdity of it

    41. Adem coughed and folded the letter as the boy’s eyes took on an inward gaze


    42. “You must be joking,” he coughed out


    43. She couldn't help herself and coughed once, then again


    44. Rooten coughed uneasily and licked his dry lips


    45. Walking up behind him, I coughed politely


    46. For a moment Uncle Hobart looked bemused, then he coughed twice, turning to me with raised eyebrows


    47. Miss Pinchard's face flushed bright red and Mr Kneeler coughed loudly several times


    48. I coughed for the second time and a pair of faded blue eyes focused on me


    49. Stan coughed pointedly at me and nodded at the ground


    50. A woman coughed, then cursed softly to herself, watching as a man farther along the row picked at his nose, examining the results of his probing with rapped attention












































    1. Dad waves a hand dismissively, pulling the sheets up to his mouth and coughing mucus into them


    2. before coughing up his own blood


    3. She often suffered from bouts of coughing


    4. reduce to fits of vehement coughing till she coughed out


    5. coughing, when I attempt a foray into the wilds of Bideford,


    6. coughing up fur balls and a half digested mouse,


    7. I was swallowing salty water, coughing and choking until I thought I was going to die


    8. A sudden burst of coughing and laughter, and they collapsed onto the ground


    9. They sat watching mindless garbage on the television late into the night while they consumed more alcohol and smoked so many cigarettes that they regularly exploded in apoplectic fits of coughing


    10. Father stood in the hallway open mouthed as his wife raved and ranted at the kids and chased them up and down the stairs until she came to a sudden, spluttering, coughing halt

    11. It was the best I could come up with before faking a coughing fit


    12. that they regularly exploded in apoplectic fits of coughing


    13. I listened to Suzanne’s choking sobs and coughing


    14. She remembers the boy coughing up blood in the room downstairs, remembers how heavy he felt in her lap


    15. The driver of the stricken lorry jumped out, coughing from the


    16. He tried to swim but started coughing and gasping for air


    17. coughing turned into puking


    18. Jock is on all fours coughing and spitting blood out onto the gravel


    19. ‘I’m not sure, doctor – her mother isn’t likely to have the money, but I think there may be a possibility of another source coughing up


    20. She still tried hard enough to work up a rough coughing fit now and then

    21. explained as he sat coughing over his gruel


    22. When the Professor entered his room, some five minutes later, he was still coughing


    23. Maybe he suffered from the coughing sickness


    24. was Rinea, coughing blood down in the mine


    25. train will start soon, it is three hours late,” he said in a coughing


    26. threatening to pop out of his sockets and he was coughing with


    27. He heard Zachary coughing, the redness from his belly now almost reaching his legs


    28. Danny woke up next, coughing and spluttering his way back to normal consciousness


    29. For a few moments no-one said anything, more interested in coughing and wiping their faces to clear the dry powder left by the dust storm


    30. I wondered if my life would flash before me as people said it did when you drowned when all of a sudden I felt a yank on my pack and my head cleared the surface leaving me coughing and spluttering

    31. I hear something and pull my rifle into my shoulder ready to fire but I relax as I realise that it is only a sentry coughing our nerves are stretched as tight as a drum and there is no better laxative known to man than being in front of the Turkish trenches


    32. I hear something over on my left and this time I know it is not a sentry coughing it is coming from the direction of our patrol


    33. except those of Joseph"s coughing and labored breathing


    34. notebook and pen, coughing consumptively


    35. All of a sudden she started coughing and kept on and then a great wad of phlegm must have come up because she spat it into her hanky


    36. She looked at me and her eyes were bloodshot with the harsh coughing she had been doing and she joked


    37. “I will look forward to it and please Rosie do one thing for me quit this job because I couldn’t bear to loose you as well”, she put a finger to her lips and went out and I could hear her coughing as she went down the corridor


    38. It was also absurdly sweet and set me on a coughing fit


    39. She started coughing and Helen ran to her side and held a bowl so she could spit into it the phlegm sounded like it was coming from her boots and a creaking whistling and wheezing came from her lungs


    40. What I’m saying is with a love like yours there are no restrictions nothing is wrong or taboo or socially unacceptable from where I sit life is to short to bother what people think especially now”, and she started coughing again

    41. Jacob had by now stopped coughing, and replied


    42. “So what’s the catch?” a coughing, gargling noise Lucius promptly, to his


    43. “If that’s Billy Boy tell him to come back and see me in the morning when I’m looking and feeling better I will talk to him then”, and I heard a lot of coughing as Helen turned to me


    44. ” The coughing started again and I heard Mabel say to me from inside the room


    45. ” She started coughing again and I held her to me she felt like a little bird frail and tiny then I gave her a drink of water she took a sip and settled down


    46. Helen told me you knocked him out and might have broken his jaw good I’m glad”, and she laughed but then started coughing again


    47. Seeing I was awake, Nathaniel cried cheerfully, “Ozzie play!” Despite a sudden bout of brain-jarring coughing, I flipped onto my stomach


    48. He began to cry, coughing out angry sobs as the tears ran down his cheeks


    49. This involves supporting the bodies immunity; breaking down and clearing infected material; introducing natural antibiotics; normalizing mucous membranes; strengthening the coughing reflex; and providing natural sources of Vitamin C and Iron


    50. Still coughing from (supposedly) swallowed water, Monique stumbled through














































    1. Ruthie coughs and chokes, leaning over to vomit onto the floor


    2. Stephen Merrett coughs slightly and my eyes flick up to his face


    3. coughs, twists in beside her and lays the line


    4. He coughs and swallows saliva


    5. He coughs, in racking, phlegmy convulsions


    6. It takes a couple of seconds before the shower spits and coughs, signalling the arrival of hot water, time enough for Ted to undress and roll his soiled clothing into a ball


    7. OF FROSTS AND COUGHS AND EARLY FLOWERS


    8. Bold talk of war and business and wine and song drowned out the pained grunts and sneezes and coughs of the beggarly class


    9. His body was torn by damaging coughs until suddenly, in the midst of a cough, he stopped and took a deep, sighing breath


    10. ” A whole lot of coughs now wracked her body again and I said to her

    11. The last remnants of life ebbed away and her coughs slowly ground to a halt


    12. They can also be useful in Coughs, Colds and Bronchitis and for Teeth and Gum Infections


    13. Irish moss: This can be taken internally for its soothing and protective coating properties it can be used for colds and coughs plus it also relieves minor irritation in the throat


    14. Even his coughs and sneezes had patterns


    15. “Stop! I’m…” She coughs


    16. He coughs and makes exaggerated gagging sounds


    17. The woman coughs and drags herself into the circle of light, inch by inch


    18. She coughs red onto the floor, and I throw myself toward her, somehow knowing that if I don’t get to her soon, the light will leave her eyes


    19. Great racking coughs followed this effort to communicate, then he resumed eating


    20. He could hear quite a few complaints and coughs

    21. He coughs and clears his throat and continues with a smile, “That’s like scoring A’s on six advanced calculus tests then getting F’s on algebra and B’s in basic math


    22. They burst out laughing and Robinson’s face turns red as he coughs very loudly


    23. Jaden coughs repeatedly, “What,” he continues coughing, “What was that?” Jaden asks


    24. Jaden leans over and coughs up water


    25. Maxx coughs aloud and clears his throat


    26. As she steps away, he coughs, wipes his hand over his face and finds an unexpected truth on his tongue


    27. Frankel coughs, but it is his wife who replies


    28. After a few coughs, he dragged the smoke deep into his lungs with each inhale


    29. At his side, Simon stops abruptly, bringing the three of them to a halt, and coughs


    30. The scribe coughs and gets to his feet

    31. Then he coughs


    32. His breathing is difficult, and he coughs all night


    33. The woman answers, then puts down the phone, coughs and announces, “Mr


    34. Head buried in an account book, the Manager peered over a desk littered with ledgers and ticket butts and, between smoke-induced coughs, outlined my responsibilities, then reminded me of the duty, respect and loyalty I owed the company and the public, and that I had until the summer break in July to prove myself – ten weeks


    35. You watch her struggle with the bubbles trying to escape her nose before she erupts in froth and coughs over the bar


    36. Fortunately for him, the key was in the ignition, and after a few coughs the engine fired and he set off in the direction taken by the other boat, keeping a safe distance from it with the aid of a hand-held digital tracking screen contained in his bag of “goodies”


    37. ” she answers between her coughs


    38. Suzy nods her head and coughs violently as the police sergeant walks towards them


    39. When the tube is inserted into his chest and Lewis coughs; forcing air out of the cavity along the plastic tubing, the non-return valve in the water prevents the air from returning


    40. If he coughs up it could save the BD guys a lot of wasted effort

    41. Suddenly both of them realized what was happening and casted it off with coughs and clearing throats


    42. The medicines which the doctor prescribed for her eased the terrible coughs which wracked her pathetically thin frame, but she seemed to gain a little only to lose it again


    43. She ambled on, whipping her tail, coughs of


    44. “Do you know what you are doing?” Jerry coughs as he curls in pain in the seat


    45. He coughs on his food for a moment


    46. He coughs, spitting out a mouth full of teeth and blood


    47. She was in pain, coughing severely, probably from trying not to vomit more, which only caused her coughs to erupt into gags


    48. Gastroenteritis is one of the most common medical conditions seen in a family practice other than colds and coughs


    49. Each time she coughs, the urine automatically leaks out


    50. I did a few pretend coughs and groaned until she agreed to my demands













































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    Synonyms for "cough"

    cough coughing hack hem cold disease flu influenza bark choke gag

    "cough" definitions

    a sudden noisy expulsion of air from the lungs that clears the air passages; a common symptom of upper respiratory infection or bronchitis or pneumonia or tuberculosis


    exhale abruptly, as when one has a chest cold or congestion