COUGH in a Sentence

Learn COUGH from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
136 example sentences for COUGH, such as:
1. Cover your mouth when you cough.
2. Love, and a cough, cannot be hid.
3. The child was coughing all night.
4. Let the cough drop melt in your mouth.
5. She gave a quiet cough to attract my attention.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of COUGH
cough
 v.  exhale abruptly, as when one has a chest cold or congestion
 n.  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
Classic Sentence: (119 in 8 pages)
1  Choking he began to cough and hiccough and the other two laughed and beat him on the back.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER L
2  His step on the stairs; his quiet moving about the frigid room while he dressed; his abstracted and meaningless cough.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
3  His breathing was hoarse, and he always had a cough.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: V
4  They knew nothing about consumption whatever, except that it made people cough; and for two weeks they had been worrying about a coughing-spell of Antanas.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
5  So the old man's cough grew every day worse, until there came a time when it hardly ever stopped, and he had become a nuisance about the place.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
6  He would lie there and cough and cough, day and night, wasting away to a mere skeleton.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
7  He had had all the diseases that babies are heir to, in quick succession, scarlet fever, mumps, and whooping cough in the first year, and now he was down with the measles.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14
8  In the first place she was developing a cough, like the one that had killed old Dede Antanas.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14
9  She had noted the slight, dry cough, the daily brightening cheek; nor could the lustre of the eye, and the airy buoyancy born of fever, deceive her.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
10  You old hands got so wise, that a child cannot cough, or sneeze, but you see desperation and ruin at hand.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
11  I've always been subject to a cough, all my days.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
12  Excess of toil wore out Fantine, and the little dry cough which troubled her increased.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IX—MADAME VICTURNIEN'S SUCCESS
13  Her cough did not leave her, and she had sweats on her back.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER X—RESULT OF THE SUCCESS
14  She spoke thus, rent in twain, shaken with sobs, blinded with tears, her neck bare, wringing her hands, and coughing with a dry, short cough, stammering softly with a voice of agony.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XIII—THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WIT...
15  Don't cough, sir; I will not have people cough on my domain without my permission.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I—FULL LIGHT
Example Sentence: (17 in 2 pages)
1  He may be able to prescribe you something for that cough.
2  The butler gave a little cough to announce his presence.
3  Cover your mouth when you cough.
4  Let the cough drop melt in your mouth.
5  Symptoms of the illness include a high temperature and a persistent dry cough.
6  Symptoms include a sore throat and dry, persistent cough.
7  Love, and a cough, cannot be hid.
8  My cold's better, but I can't seem to shake off this cough.
9  The persistence of a cough in his daughter puzzled him.
10  The bacterium is so destructive that it is common to cough up both mucus and blood.
11  She gave a quiet cough to attract my attention.
12  Why don't you lay off smoking for a while until your cough gets better?
13  If the child coughs it is given a new medicine, which is said to be some kind of silicate found in bamboos.
14  The spasmodic coughing in the auditorium annoyed the performers.
15  The child was coughing all night.