How to Use disgorge in a Sentence

disgorge

verb
  • The river disgorges into the ocean just south of the city.
  • The damaged ship disgorged thousands of gallons of oil into the bay.
  • We watched the airplane disgorging its passengers at the gate.
  • The tourists are already lined up, disgorged from the buses, on their cells.
    — Karl Kirchwey, The New York Review of Books, 13 Nov. 2025
  • And yet, the sands of Montana seem to have disgorged a second one.
    — Ari Daniel, NPR, 30 Oct. 2025
  • The ceiling of the downstairs loo had flapped open and disgorged a pint of rainwater.
    — Jo Rodgers, Vogue, 14 Feb. 2018
  • The feeling was sucked out, the bare facts remaining, like the fibre disgorged by the juicer.
    — Kate Folk, The New Yorker, 16 Mar. 2020
  • Its restaurant, which serves dim sum and rice porridge, looks out over trucks disgorging cargo on the pier.
    — Peter S. Goodman Ulet Ifansasti, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2023
  • There may be pricier truffles and treats in this world, covered in gold flakes or disgorged from a goose's belly.
    — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 28 Oct. 2018
  • Because sediment is not disgorged, the wine is slightly cloudy.
    — Ellen Bhang, BostonGlobe.com, 29 July 2019
  • Any records being held by New York City and its agencies must be disgorged.
    — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 14 Jan. 2025
  • This wine spends 44 months on lees and was just disgorged a few months back, giving some lovely brioche toastiness.
    — Jeanne O'Brien Coffey, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Subway trains clattered along their tracks, their doors squealing open to disgorge crowds of passengers.
    — Ryan Lenora Brown, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Apr. 2020
  • Baumhefner took the bottles off Ployez’s hands and disgorged and finished the wines himself.
    — Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Dec. 2017
  • But on the south, a deep, wide ditch just outside the city’s wall kept the siege towers from closing to disgorge their cargoes of armed men.
    — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 24 July 2019
  • After aging is deemed complete, the cellar team disgorges the wines by hand without freezing the neck.
    — Lauren Mowery, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025
  • In Windsor, the bridge disgorges traffic into narrow city streets.
    — The Economist, 7 Sep. 2017
  • Buses and taxis heave to a stop at busy intersections, disgorging crowds of commuters.
    — Ayen Deng Bior, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Brokers who self-report will not face fines but will be required to 'disgorge' excess commissions back to the clients.
    — Stewart Welch, AL.com, 3 May 2018
  • Last to enter were the network embeds, disgorged by the campaign’s new Sprinter van.
    — Kyle Paoletta, Harper's Magazine, 30 Mar. 2024
  • Every five or six days, one of my six mushroom kits would disgorge a pile of fleshy appendages, always faster than seemed reasonable.
    — New York Times, 7 Feb. 2021
  • Every day, from front-line towns and cities across the country, trains disgorged throngs of desperate people seeking safe haven.
    — Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2024
  • Three times a day, the shift changes swallowed and disgorged meninto the archipelago of bars and sandwich shops outside the gates.
    — Tara Bahrampour, Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2017
  • But no one else is likely to disgorge a massive viewing breakdown in the way Netflix has; there’s just no upside.
    — Todd Spangler, Variety, 20 Sep. 2024
  • One seawall seemed to be disgorging a steady stream of liquid into the river, as if connected to a spigot.
    — Ben McGrath, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Some, through his exertions and by the assistance of citizens, were caught and compelled to disgorge.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Oct. 2021
  • The Charleroi filled up and emptied, picking up and disgorging passengers.
    — Rachel Cusk, Harper's Magazine, 20 Sep. 2023
  • The last night of December brings lightning and thunder and rain to the desert, the sky disgorging the remnants of the year.
    — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Oct. 2022
  • For many people this week, that reminder came in the form of a stomach-churning video that captured one snake disgorging another.
    — Peter Holley, Washington Post, 3 June 2017
  • The plans call for some kind of air component — fighter jets will most likely be buzzing the Capitol and helicopters will disgorge troops.
    — Helene Cooper, New York Times, 27 May 2018

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