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'cough' in a sentence

Learn how to use 'cough' with 13 example sentences.


cough noun

: a sudden noisy expulsion of air from the lungs that clears the air passages; a common symptom of upper respiratory infection or bronchitis or pneumonia or tuberculosis

cough verb

: exhale abruptly, as when one has a chest cold or congestion


  • Does it hurt when you cough?
  • Put your hand over your mouth when you cough, sneeze or yawn.
  • Every time she coughed, she felt a great deal of pain.
  • What color was the phlegm that you coughed up?
  • Your cough is the consequence of smoking.
  • The squirrel coughed into its elbow.
  • The cough syrup has a licorice flavoring.
  • I'd like a bottle of cough syrup.
  • Love, smoke and cough are hard to hide.
  • Dry air causes thirst and coughing.
  • Ferdinand won't give the speech because he's got a cough.
  • The cough went away without any medicine needed.
  • Everyone in the classroom was coughing.
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