A symptom consisting of the involuntary expulsion of air from the nose.
1 At the first sternutation the rats jumped up and looked about them, evidently considerably alarmed.
2 Would anyone believe that a simple sternutation could produce such ravages on a quadrupedal organism?
3 He gripped the upstairs banister, squinting in that torturous, semi-orgasmic state that comes before a whopping sternutation .
4 If she had not sneezed, she would have heard all, and so should I; but that unlucky sternutation routed Dr. John.
5 She says she can't control it, it's loud, and her colleagues are starting to make less than comradely comments about her high-decibel sternutations .
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