COUGH in a Sentence
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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.
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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Meanings and Examples of COUGH
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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.
2 His step on the stairs; his quiet moving about the frigid room while he dressed; his abstracted and meaningless cough.
3 His breathing was hoarse, and he always had a cough.
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.
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.
6 He would lie there and cough and cough, day and night, wasting away to a mere skeleton.
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.
8 In the first place she was developing a cough, like the one that had killed old Dede Antanas.
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.
10 You old hands got so wise, that a child cannot cough, or sneeze, but you see desperation and ruin at hand.
11 I've always been subject to a cough, all my days.
12 Excess of toil wore out Fantine, and the little dry cough which troubled her increased.
13 Her cough did not leave her, and she had sweats on her back.
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
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15 Don't cough, sir; I will not have people cough on my domain without my permission.
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.