regurgitate - use in sentences

Object

  • food: Herring gull chicks peck at a red spot on their parents's bill to induce their parents to regurgitate food.
  • fact: The disadvantage of these systems is that they tend simply to regurgitate facts in response to mouse clicks.
  • material: Don't simply regurgitate material from a tutorial essay which was not quite on the same topic.

Modifying Another Word

  • simply: Don't simply regurgitate material from a tutorial essay which was not quite on the same topic.
  • then: She then regurgitates all of the nectar into storage cells.
  • not: Do not regurgitate all the material that you have revised or that featured in a lecture course.

Preposition: as

  • pellet: Diet Owls need complete animal food, including the bone and fur which are regurgitated as pellets.

Modifying Another Word

  • just: The emphasis is on learning a task rather than just regurgitating an answer.
  • duly: Philosophy is not about spoon-feeding received facts which must be duly regurgitated in essays and exams.

Used with why or when

  • what: Home to find Button has regurgitated what looks like an ex bird on the sitting room carpet.

Preposition: in

  • essay: Philosophy is not about spoon-feeding received facts which must be duly regurgitated in essays and exams.
  • form: They are swallowed whole and later any indigestible parts are regurgitated in the form of pellets.

Preposition: by

  • weasel: Weasel Coffee - £ 15.95 Delicious coffee regurgitated by weasels.
  • owl: Unfortunately, its only the remains of a mouse, as regurgitated by an owl.

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