Gargled

(To be fair, the animals don't exactly talk; they occasionally produce a kind of gargled English and communicate with each other in amusing picture balloons.) ❋ Pamela Zoslov (2010)

Last autumn he visited the emergency room after accidentally clipping his finger in a hedge trimmer, which seemed quite dire relative to the wheezing infant of freaked-out first-time parents, an elderly woman who gargled citronella torch fuel she mistook for mouthwash, and a teenager too stoned to notice or mind that his right foot pointed back instead of front, the result of a Jackass copycat stunt gone bad. ❋ Scott Gummer (2011)

He gargled his mouth and throat, took a suck at a divided lemon, and all the while the towels worked like mad, driving oxygen into his lungs to purge the pounding blood and send it back revivified for the struggle yet to come. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Joan, who had gone into the bungalow, tossed down a strip of white calico, in which old Telepasse was promptly wrapped, and he stood forth, resplendent and purified, withal he still spat and strangled from the soap-suds with which Noa Noah had gargled his throat. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I sucked and gargled and gulped my man down until his toes opened and closed and he started grabbing and clutching the sheets, moaning out my name. ❋ Cairo (2011)

All business: Their last gargled gasp of protest sealed my end of the deal, loosing my fetters to fly away home. ❋ Seamus Bellamy (2011)

The ritual fountains gargled his ears, and spat out ❋ Michael Vagnetti (2011)

She went to the bathroom and furiously brushed her teeth, then gargled with Listerine to erase the telltale signs of her cocoa binge. ❋ Susan Fales-Hill (2010)

The vampire drew back slightly, then folded his arms over his chest and cocked his head, looking down at Old Pierre, who gasped and gargled. ❋ Nancy Holder (2010)

I would listen with mounting rage as he gargled his Chinese herbs, did an hour of tai chi on the creaky hardwood floor, and then adjusted himself on his zafu to meditate. ❋ Ph.D. Mariana Caplan (2010)

When I was done brushing, I gargled real quick, and it must have sounded crazy, because Yosef started laughing, then covered his mouth to hide his amusement. ❋ Zane (2010)

The water gargled in its pear-shaped base as she drew the smoke to her lips, coughing inexpertly before holding everything in for as long as she could until she had no choice but to exhale. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I took a huge mouthful of wine and held my head back and gargled it. ❋ Unknown (2010)

His blood gargled in his throat as he tried to draw air into his lungs. ❋ C.W. Stewart (2010)

She was French and upon my first meeting with her, she gargled at me with such a slushy accent that I regarded her with the incredulity of Alice meeting the hookah-smoking caterpillar. ❋ Marianne Leone (2010)