What is "retched"

Usage examples of "retched".

He retched, but there was nothing more than bile in his stomach, and after a few heaves he just sat there shaking and wishing he had actually died on that cart.

He leaned against the Stadium wall, retched, vomited, retched again, vomited once more, retched and retched and retched till his stomach was a pounding pain against his ribs, till after-images flashed across his retinas, till he felt as if he were puking up the whole foul planet.

A spasm of fear and horror overcame her, and she almost retched, but her stomach was empty and she dared not give in to weakness now.

He retched, struck so hard by memory that he emptied his stomach into the water before he could stop himself.

I rolled to the edge of my bed and retched dryly, more battered by that prodigious mind contact than by the beating I’d taken from Rory.

Someone retched, and Chade, tight-breathed, told them to get out of the room until called for.

I lost count of how many times I held on to Thick while he leaned far over the railing and retched hopelessly at the sea.

On hands and knees, he scuttled away from me, over the stone of the plaza to the forest edge, where he hung his head like a sick dog and retched, over and over, trying to choke up the cowardly words he had said.

I could not stand light, and I was racked with nausea so bad that whenever I retched my head exploded in pain infinitely greater than what I already experienced.

He lunged for the bucket and retched into it, his fair hair hanging in damp strings over his face.

Toranaga retched again and spat out the phlegm, treading water, and thought, that will teach you to be smug.