50 Verbs to Use for the Word

She cleared her throat, sitting up, flushing yet again. "

If I imagined you really wished me to marry Isabel, I'd cut my throat!'

And even as they looked the thing tore the throat out of Hugo Baskerville, on which, as it turned its blazing eyes and dripping jaws upon them, the three shrieked with fear and rode for dear life, still screaming, across the moor.

Then one got out a knife and slit her throat.

Gob, he’d let you pour all manner of drink down his throat till the Lord would call him before you’d ever see the froth of his pint.

So saying, he took a box wherein he had several medicines that he carried about him to use as occasion might require; and drew out a little phial of balsam, with which he rubbed humpback's neck a long time; then he took out of his case a neat iron instrument, which he put betwixt his teeth, and after he had opened his mouth, he thrust down his throat a pair of small pincers, with which he took out a bit of fish and bone, which he shewed to all the people.

Callous, concentrated on evil, with stained mind, and soul hungry for rebellion, Dorian Gray hastened on, quickening his step as he went, but as he darted aside into a dim archway, that had served him often as a short cut to the ill-famed place where he was going, he felt himself suddenly seized from behind, and before he had time to defend himself he was thrust back against the wall, with a brutal hand round his throat.

Vampires were more often than not attractive in a scary, dead, don’t look them straight in the eye, ripping throats out and wallowing in ‘top yourself’ amounts of despair, way.

The brute was dead, but still gripping Montgomery's throat with its curving claws.

He lost control of himself--something welled up and choked his throat. "

Hewraps his throat mike around the cheap black plastic casing, pipes theinput to a simple listener process. “

Mitya withdrew the hands with which he was squeezing her throat.

or are you imagining he would be too much flattered by seeing round your lovely throat an ornament which his money purchased three years ago, before he knew there was such a throat in the world?

Two or three times to-day I have had the word ‘hospitality’ pushed down my throat; this is not fair.

He came out of the tangle a spectacle of malignancy, ears flattened back, lips writhing, nose wrinkling, his teeth clipping together as the fangs barely missed the hound's soft throat.

245 and 246 of the Report of the Perkins Institution for 1891The bluebird with his azure plumes, the thrush clad all in brown, the robin jerking his spasmodic throat, the oriole drifting like a flake of fire, the jolly bobolink and his happy mate, the mocking-bird imitating the notes of all, the red-bird with his one sweet trill, and the busy little wren, are all making the trees in our front yard ring with their glad song.

I have seen the he-bird also, I have paus'd to hear him near at hand inflating his throat and joyfully singing.

When I first came I cried that I was here without hope of release, and for crying Miss Grady and her assistants choked me until they hurt my throat, for it has been sore ever since.”

He sat astride upon my shoulders, and held my throat so tight, that I thought he would have strangled me, the apprehension of which make me swoon and fall down.

"I have nothing against you," mumbled Baldwin, feeling his throat.

His determination to cram down their throats, or put "bodily into their souls" his own words, elicits a cry of horror from Socrates.

Margaret wreathed her throat in a scornful curve.

So he was content, when he had overthrown and slashed wide the throat of one of their dogs, to drop back and let the pack go in and do the cruel finishing work.

After a couple of minutes of this, Joshua whined, which I think is was doggie equivalent of clearing one’s throat to remind others you are there.

As he did so the narrow black velvet band which she seems always to wear round her throat, buckled with an old diamond buckle which her lover had given her, was dragged a little up, and showed a red mark on her throat.

It will be a bad lookout for the Count if the edge of that "Kukri" ever touches his throat, driven by that stern, ice-cold hand!

I was just as hard as a stone, and then said things that made him look as if he would gladly have taken me by the throat with those talon hands of his."

There Aineias rushed on Aphareus, son of Kaletor, and struck his throat, that chanced to be turned to him, with the keen spear, and his head dropped down and his shield and helm fell with him, and death that slays the spirit overwhelmed him.

D’you want to split your throat?”

Then, after waiting upon my father, I soothed my throat with honey-water, ejecting it without swallowing: I might say gargle, but I won't, though I think the word is found in Novius and elsewhere.

He yawns, showing a coalblack throat, and closes his jaws by an upward push of his parchmentroll.)

He dropped the whip and shielded his throat with his arms.

No matter how you sliced it, however, Michelle was lying in a hospital bed, respirator down her throat.

He raked his throat rudely, puked phlegm on the floor.

Still protecting his throat and face with his torn and bleeding arm, he tried to retreat to the barn.

He pricked her throat with the tip of his knife.

“Because I have seen her in the twilight—because she came to my help when I called—because she, too, was entangled by the worms, and, luckier than I, was killed by one of them piercing her throat.”

One towel passed round the throat and was secured at the back of the pillar.

Her drones panned the throats around us, spraying sonar down each.

They were all right very likely, but Becky went her own way, and so fascinated the professional personages that they would leave off their sore throats in order to sing at her parties and give her lessons for nothing.

Then they began to materialise till--if God have not take away my reason, for I saw it through my eyes--there were before me in actual flesh the same three women that Jonathan saw in the room, when they would have kissed his throat.

He requested that the Wolf pull it out, lest when he ate him it should injure his throat.

Hasten throat and sound your last, Salute me--salute the days once more.

Like a lightning flash it crossed my mind that I must loose my hold on the collar and grasp his throat with both hands, throttle him.

The boughs crackled, and the whole masses of leaves and green branches went down the capacious throats of these terrible monsters!

and it stopped alongside, and his mouth opened up like a trunk, and stayed so; and he swallowed two or three times like a person that's got a dry throat, and then says: "I hain't ever done you no harm.

When I and my friends repaired to him at six o'clock next day, he seemed to have been engaged on a case of a darker complexion than usual, for we found him with his head butted into this closet, not only washing his hands, but laving his face and gargling his throat.

A sob escaped my throat as I curled into the fetal position on the floor, devastated.

His vest was of some bright yellow material; a white taffety cap was set jauntily on one side of his head; and, to complete his equipment, a blood-red silk handkerchief enveloped his throat, and fell down, in a dainty manner, upon his bosom, in a fantastic bow-knot of super-eminent dimensions.

He ran his fingers reflectively through his heavy beard for a moment; then, with his voice still a forte whisper, he added, "Say, stranger, I've got a leetle drap o' white liquor hid out in the woodshed whar Smiles kaint find hit, an' ef yo'd delight ter wet yo'r throat afore she comes back, why ..." The door flew open with a bang, and Rose and Mike tore in, panting and a-glitter with diamond drops of rain.

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