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  • noun Plural form of expectoration.

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Examples

  • In El Paso, churches, hotels, halls of assembly, stores, markets, banking rooms, railroad depots, and saloons are required to provide spittoons โ€œof a kind and number to efficiently contain expectorations into them.โ€

    Weird US Laws 2002

  • Tiger Woods and his not-so-great expectorations | Harry Pearson

    Tiger Woods and his not-so-great expectorations | Harry Pearson 2011

  • I can hear the neighborhood waking up, a phlegmatic reveille played on collapsing metal bars and security shutters, with a gathering army of grandmothers pulling wheezy basket carts to the supermarket for their Sunday shopping trips and their old husbands shuffling behind them and spitting on the sidewalks, their expectorations horns heralding the arrival of some urban, impoverished sun king.

    The Madonnas of Echo Park Brando Skyhorse 2010

  • If they were allowed inside, they would kneel on a sawdust floor that had been befouled by years of spilled drinks and the expectorations of men who had missed, or never tried for, the spittoon; if not, they would remain outside, hunched for hours against the winter cold.

    LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010

  • If they were allowed inside, they would kneel on a sawdust floor that had been befouled by years of spilled drinks and the expectorations of men who had missed, or never tried for, the spittoon; if not, they would remain outside, hunched for hours against the winter cold.

    LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010

  • I can hear the neighborhood waking up, a phlegmatic reveille played on collapsing metal bars and security shutters, with a gathering army of grandmothers pulling wheezy basket carts to the supermarket for their Sunday shopping trips and their old husbands shuffling behind them and spitting on the sidewalks, their expectorations horns heralding the arrival of some urban, impoverished sun king.

    The Madonnas of Echo Park Brando Skyhorse 2010

  • A couple of weeks ago, the New York Times's Jeff Zeleny reported that Democrats were avoiding making town hall appearances in order to avoid the "voter rage" -- that is to say, the angry expectorations of the anti-health care reform set -- that dominated the YouTubes during the run-up to the reform package's eventual passage.

    Dems Skipping Town Halls? Not Really 2010

  • I can hear the neighborhood waking up, a phlegmatic reveille played on collapsing metal bars and security shutters, with a gathering army of grandmothers pulling wheezy basket carts to the supermarket for their Sunday shopping trips and their old husbands shuffling behind them and spitting on the sidewalks, their expectorations horns heralding the arrival of some urban, impoverished sun king.

    The Madonnas of Echo Park Brando Skyhorse 2010

  • A couple of weeks ago, the New York Times's Jeff Zeleny reported that Democrats were avoiding making town hall appearances in order to avoid the "voter rage" -- that is to say, the angry expectorations of the anti-health care reform set -- that dominated the YouTubes during the run-up to the reform package's eventual passage.

    Dems Skipping Town Halls? Not Really 2010

  • I can hear the neighborhood waking up, a phlegmatic reveille played on collapsing metal bars and security shutters, with a gathering army of grandmothers pulling wheezy basket carts to the supermarket for their Sunday shopping trips and their old husbands shuffling behind them and spitting on the sidewalks, their expectorations horns heralding the arrival of some urban, impoverished sun king.

    The Madonnas of Echo Park Brando Skyhorse 2010

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