dry heaving , also: dry-heaving
retching

His retching could be heard all over the church as if amplified.

Each time we did not get more than three steps from the railing before he was retching.

She was just able to get off the lot and onto a patch of bare earth when the first retching began.

Then he heard a moan, followed by some violent retching.

My mouth filled with saliva, a sign of the retching that was yet to come.

Her stomach remained sore from all the retching, but otherwise she felt fine.

Another five minutes passed before the retching and dry-heaving ceased.

I grated, hand to mouth, fighting to suppress the retching.

His retching had subsided enough for him to speak.

Nothing we used would stop the terrible retching that left him pale, trembling, crying.

Some of the men turned at the sound of Venables's retching.

Mackie stood outside the bedroom door listening as the violent retching began.

The door slammed behind her and he could hear the sound of her terrible retching.

She moved past it, and heard the retching.

Mixed in was the sour smell of her retching.

None of the Oceanics seems to notice his retching.

Despite his retching, he insisted for years that it was his "best birthday ever."

His retching had come with no warning and no accompanying nausea.

Yet he choked down conscience, as a sick man subdues his retching.

Always, as if professionally, merry, above his physiological retching and reretching.

He continued to cough, almost retching with each convulsion of his windpipe.

The servant was suddenly vomiting, abandoned to helpless, hopeless retching.

Malik's delight was evident even over sound of Galaeron's continued retching.

His retching turned his stomach inside out and left him empty and clean.

Either one would have had her retching.