How to Use cough up in a Sentence

cough up

verb
  • The Fever coughed up 17 turnovers.
    — Alejandro Avila Outkick, FOXNews.com, 19 June 2026
  • The rats cough up the eggs from their lungs and then swallow them.
    — Ars Technica, 13 Feb. 2025
  • Triple-A call-ups have coughed up runs late the last two games.
    — Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 2 July 2024
  • McIlroy coughed up a six-shot lead in the third round.
    — CBS News, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Those are two of the three the Hawks have coughed up in the last eight games.
    — Phil Thompson, Chicago Tribune, 31 Jan. 2025
  • Robinson even coughed up a fumble in the red zone.
    — Miami Herald, 26 Oct. 2025
  • The bullpen coughed up four runs over the final three innings.
    — Jeff Sanders, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 June 2025
  • But in the sixth, with his club up, 2-0, the righthander coughed up the lead.
    — Julian McWilliams, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Even that wasn’t enough when Mims coughed up the fourth-quarter punt.
    — Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Grab something on you and tells you to cough up and tells you to go about your business.
    — Scott Huver, Peoplemag, 29 Apr. 2023
  • Tony appealed to the state to force the county to cough up more money.
    — Rafael Olmeda, Sun Sentinel, 11 June 2026
  • Each room coughs up its contents like a kid with consumption.
    — Marni Jameson, Arkansas Online, 29 Aug. 2025
  • The Bucks can’t afford to cough up the ball in their own trenches.
    — Brian Sampson, Forbes.com, 18 Apr. 2025
  • Symptoms include a bad cough, chest pain, and coughing up blood.
    — Cara Lynn Shultz, PEOPLE, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Symptoms range from fever and chest pain to shortness of breath and coughing up blood.
    — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 5 May 2025
  • So much of writing is battling your own mind to cough up the clearest idea or best word.
    — Lily Meyer, The Atlantic, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Symptoms include chest pains, a cough that last three weeks or longer, or coughing up blood.
    — Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 4 Dec. 2025
  • The Ravens coughed up a 40-25 fourth-quarter lead.
    — The Athletic Nfl Staff, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Holmes coughed up 4 runs in just 1/3 of an inning in a loss to Texas.
    — Chuck Murr, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2024
  • Painter has coughed up precisely two homers in each of his two previous starts.
    — Josh Shepardson, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026
  • Their tiny lungs and muscles cannot muster the strength to cough up or sneeze out the mucus in their airways.
    — WIRED, 9 Nov. 2022
  • Then Rodón coughed up a homer to Story to lead off the sixth that tied the game again.
    — Brendan Kuty, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
  • The Celtics coughed up double-digit leads in all three losses.
    — Adam Himmelsbach, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Consumers have had to cough up more cash to keep up with businesses’ rising costs.
    — Hannah Parker, NBC news, 20 Feb. 2026
  • And then Alexandra coughs up blood and keels over, dead within seconds.
    — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 13 Feb. 2024
  • The Knicks coughed up the ball 13 times, sometimes unforced.
    — Fred Katz, New York Times, 10 June 2026
  • But some observers say the Toyota group may need to cough up more cash to secure the takeover.
    — Nicholas Takahashi, Bloomberg, 14 Jan. 2026
  • Tennessee isn't the only state that may have to cough up more cash for car insurance.
    — Charles Singh, The Tennessean, 22 Aug. 2025
  • The outlet said the scan came after Krayzie Bone had been coughing up blood.
    — Dominique Fluker, Essence, 9 Oct. 2023
  • The Jays were on the brink of a fourth straight loss, having coughed up two runs in the top of the 10th.
    — Mitch Bannon, New York Times, 14 May 2026

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