How to Use regurgitate in a Sentence
regurgitate
verb- The bird regurgitates to feed its young.
- The bird regurgitates food to feed its young.
- The speaker was just regurgitating facts and figures.
- She memorized the historical dates only to regurgitate them on the exam.
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Small birds pick at the fruits and large ones swallow them whole, then regurgitate the seeds onto the ground.
—Jennie Erin Smith, New York Times, 5 Nov. 2019
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Do not burn, squeeze, twist or smother the tick, since this may cause it to regurgitate.
—Joyce Sakamoto, Washington Post, 18 June 2018
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After it was caught, the snake began to regurgitate the fawn.
—Doug Phillips, Sun-Sentinel.com, 2 Mar. 2018
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If the colony’s food stores run low, the repletes regurgitate what’s in their bellies for other ants to feed on.
—Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 July 2023
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At the same time, if a replay review is butchered in New York, the poor crew chief on the field can do nothing more but regurgitate the error.
—Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2022
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Manuel and Bowa aren’t paid to regurgitate the company line.
—Marcus Hayes, Philly.com, 29 Mar. 2018
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The whole idea is to create problem solvers who have learned how to learn, rather than regurgitate knowledge.
—Aryn Baker/mauritius, Time, 11 June 2019
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The move stressed the animal, though, leading it to regurgitate its prey.
—Jared Gilmour, miamiherald, 1 Mar. 2018
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All of it dished up by an algorithm designed to regurgitate it right back to him.
—Oliver Darcy, CNN, 19 Mar. 2024
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In the wild, a pup licks its mother's face and lips, stimulating her to regurgitate food for it.
—Kim Campbell Thornton, Star Tribune, 7 May 2021
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Tokuda follows the Jagras at a safe distance, which returns to its pack and regurgitates the meal for a feast.
—Simon Parkin, Ars Technica, 26 June 2017
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The new parents take turns babysitting: While one penguin takes care of the chick, the other goes out to sea and swallows lots of fish to regurgitate later.
—Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 13 Apr. 2012
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To do that, though, the sheep will regurgitate the plant matter and grind it up with its back molars — similar to how the sheepshead fish uses its back teeth to grind up shells.
—Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 12 June 2023
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The goal is not to regurgitate frame by frame but to grow more aware of the infrastructure of filmmaking: blocking, staging, depth, and the like.
—Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 22 June 2023
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Flamingos Male and female flamingos make crop milk, too, and regurgitate it into their chicks’ mouths for up to six months.
—Christina Szalinski, Discover Magazine, 24 June 2021
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Are you subscribed to a million Substacks that all regurgitate the same discourse on how the U.S.-China trade war is impacting stay-at-home dads?
—Irving Ruan, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2023
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Then, the insects will hang from the ceiling of their underground colonies and regurgitate the liquid to feed hungry housemates.
—Liz Langley, National Geographic, 30 Oct. 2019
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More notably, however, the plaintiffs allege in the suit that Claude would regurgitate the lyrics to songs when given broader prompts as well.
—Ethan Millman, Rolling Stone, 18 Oct. 2023
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In this day and age, people are happy to consume rumors and then regurgitate them in toxic judgment, but the truth has a way of weaseling its way to the surface.
—Evan Bass, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 June 2017
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Once on the platform, the tiger shark regurgitated feathers.
—Linda Robertson, Miami Herald, 27 Mar. 2024
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As the royals don’t leave their chamber, workers give them regurgitated food from their own mouths.
—Elizabeth Preston, New York Times, 5 May 2023
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Sadie, the female, nursed the pups, and both parents regurgitated food to help their kiddos transition from Sadie’s milk to solid food.
—Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 7 Feb. 2024
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Almost instantly, the snake regurgitated a third gecko that popped out bright red.
—Sarah Gibbens, National Geographic, 22 Aug. 2017
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Almost instantly, the snake regurgitated a third gecko that popped out bright red.
—Sarah Gibbens, National Geographic, 22 Aug. 2017
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The substance produced by carpenter bees is a mixture of pollen and regurgitated nectar, which is used as food for the larvae, but it is not stored in the quantities or manner characteristic of honey produced by honeybees.
—Tiffany Acosta, The Arizona Republic, 13 May 2024
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This generation’s big copyright battle is pitting journalists against artificially intelligent software that has learned from and can regurgitate their reporting.
—Vox Staff, Vox, 8 May 2024
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