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.
  • 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
  • After it was caught, the snake began to regurgitate the fawn.
    — Doug Phillips, Sun-Sentinel.com, 2 Mar. 2018
  • All of it dished up by an algorithm designed to regurgitate it right back to him.
    — Oliver Darcy, CNN, 19 Mar. 2024
  • If a bat returns to the roost hungry, others may regurgitate a blood meal to get them through the night.
    — Sebastian Stockmaier, Discover Magazine, 31 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • The move stressed the animal, though, leading it to regurgitate its prey.
    — Jared Gilmour, miamiherald, 1 Mar. 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • The shark’s behavior of regurgitating its meal is rare but not unheard of.
    — Melissa Cristina Marquez, Forbes, 28 Sep. 2024
  • Almost instantly, the snake regurgitated a third gecko that popped out bright red.
    — Sarah Gibbens, National Geographic, 22 Aug. 2017
  • Cooney testified this is because the boy would often regurgitate his food.
    — Chris Spargo, PEOPLE, 11 Dec. 2025
  • The woman who regurgitated everything to you was wrong as well.
    — Harriette Cole, Mercury News, 8 May 2026
  • That no one’s being harmed because the model isn’t regurgitating full books.
    — Aron Solomon june 27, Literary Hub, 27 June 2025
  • What the birds cannot digest is regurgitated into a pellet.
    — Michelle Del Rey, USA Today, 12 May 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • Like many owls, barn owls swallow prey whole, then regurgitate tough material like fur and bone into what’s called an owl pellet.
    — National Geographic, 31 Oct. 2020
  • The last ten years of my career has been reboot mania, and the current nature of the industry tends to regurgitate.
    — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 27 June 2025
  • We’re expected to sit within our trauma, be consumed by it and regurgitate it in order to be believed.
    — Evie Muir, refinery29.com, 11 May 2022
  • Off the field, Daboll regurgitates the same answers to the same questions about his future while Schoen avoids the media.
    — Bob Raissman, New York Daily News, 21 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • They were forced to read it in school, as a kind of national treasure to be admired rather than enjoyed—to memorize its set pieces, to regurgitate its messages.
    — Peter Brooks, The New York Review of Books, 5 Oct. 2022

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