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Examples
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During the performance of his original read: horrible song, "I'm a Stud," Geo drops trou and dances around on the stage, shaking his equipment to the point where Paula Abdul runs back stage and starts dry-heaving.
Top Moments: Castle's White Lie and The X Factor's Naked Truth 2011
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At a time when millions of Americans lack employment and the economy appears to be heading back into a period of prolonged dry-heaving, one of Thomas Friedman's prescriptives for America is for President Barack Obama to watch a 1996 Kevin Costner movie.
How 'Tin Cup' Can Save America, Apparently The Huffington Post News Team 2011
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First his lunch came up, and then that ran out and he was retching bile, and then even the bile ran out, and he was dry-heaving at the pavement.
Law of Attraction Allison Leotta 2010
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First his lunch came up, and then that ran out and he was retching bile, and then even the bile ran out, and he was dry-heaving at the pavement.
Law of Attraction Allison Leotta 2010
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Even today, nurses on oncology floors who tended to patients in the early 1980s before the advent of newer antiemetics that would somewhat ease the effect of the drug can vividly recollect the violent jolts of nausea that suddenly descended on patients and brought them dry-heaving to the ground.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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As Evie sat on a rock dry-heaving, surrounded by cows and clanging cowbells.
Full Frontal Nudity Harry Hamlin 2010
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Even today, nurses on oncology floors who tended to patients in the early 1980s before the advent of newer antiemetics that would somewhat ease the effect of the drug can vividly recollect the violent jolts of nausea that suddenly descended on patients and brought them dry-heaving to the ground.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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Wear this on a rainy day and count the number of people who see it and start dry-heaving.
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Even today, nurses on oncology floors who tended to patients in the early 1980s before the advent of newer antiemetics that would somewhat ease the effect of the drug can vividly recollect the violent jolts of nausea that suddenly descended on patients and brought them dry-heaving to the ground.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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First his lunch came up, and then that ran out and he was retching bile, and then even the bile ran out, and he was dry-heaving at the pavement.
Law of Attraction Allison Leotta 2010
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