How to Use nauseating in a Sentence

nauseating

adjective
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  • It was nauseating to see the two of them act like lovesick teenagers.
  • At the end of the day, the rich taste of red wine may not be worth the cost of a nauseating headache or an itchy rash.
    — Claire Maldarelli, Popular Science, 27 Dec. 2019
  • There were flames and smoke and grit, and the smell of burning human flesh was nauseating.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 26 Apr. 2017
  • Even if Basch’s ogling of the doctor is nauseating, his point about the erotics of medicine has something true in it.
    — Rachel Pearson, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2019
  • The glib and easy use of the term can also lead to nauseating self-righteousness.
    — Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, 1 Sep. 2017
  • And because the video of this tragedy — taking place in front of the man’s 4-year-old daughter, no less — is so nauseating.
    — Will Bunch, Philly.com, 20 June 2017
  • But over the next three games, a series of calamities sends you on a nauseating 0-3 run, putting your once-mighty squad at 6-7 and very much out of the playoffs.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 15 Nov. 2019
  • Raw sewage leaked from an unsealed pipe, and the nauseating smell lasted for days.
    — OrlandoSentinel.com, 19 Sep. 2017
  • The nauseating jolt of a theme park ride is a useful metaphor for stock prices of young software companies this week.
    — Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2019
  • In my world, working side-by-side with someone who smells bad can be nauseating.
    — Ramona Sentinel, 16 Aug. 2019
  • One way to mitigate the nauseating effects is to drink lots of water, but that meant double the bathroom breaks on the drive there.
    — Cady Drell, Glamour, 27 Sep. 2019
  • Alas, so strong was the body’s nauseating stench that the King’s party could only take him as far as nearby Nantua.
    — Jack Hartnell, Time, 30 Oct. 2019
  • Anything milder has no effect on me, no kick at the back of the throat, no nicotine rush; anything stronger is nauseating and too strong to inhale deeply.
    — Longreads, 14 Oct. 2017
  • Nothing is quite as nauseating as Pepto Bismal pink or an 80's shade of dusty rose.
    — Bridget Mallon, ELLE Decor, 13 Oct. 2015
  • But the images captured proved more nauseating than nifty.
    — Kevin Baxter, latimes.com, 21 May 2018
  • While the media and Hollywood are stretched to an extreme, the portrayal is believable, which is the nauseating thing about it all.
    — Will Nevin, OregonLive.com, 27 Oct. 2017
  • There may be no worse feeling in all of bowhunting than the nauseating regret that comes from making a bad shot on a trophy animal.
    — Jeff Murray, Field & Stream, 8 Nov. 2019
  • But a few of those fizzles stung, and the repetition felt like a rollercoaster - fun at first, but nauseating before long.
    — Hannah Orenstein, chicagotribune.com, 30 June 2018
  • Acrid and nauseating, the chlorine scent always overcame the delicious smells of whatever had been cooked that night.
    — Amiel Stanek, Bon Appetit, 17 Mar. 2017
  • That’s why Tuesday’s NBA draft lottery was both nauseating and predictable.
    — Dan Bickley, USA TODAY, 16 May 2017
  • Not one smidgen of evidence of this has been found, but that doesn’t stop the liberals from reporting it as truth every single nauseating day.
    — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 18 May 2017
  • But this plate of pasta — bitter and pungent, nourishing and perhaps a bit nauseating — should be savored on its own.
    — A. O. Scott, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2018
  • While the rough seas may have caused the ship to sway at nauseating levels that night, the tidal wave of local Miami talent prove why Vice City just unexplainably does things better.
    — Jordan Diaz, Billboard, 5 Feb. 2018
  • The researchers posit that this impressive (and kind of nauseating) distance is because smaller pathogens can travel as part of a buoyant cloud that extends their reach.
    — Colleen Stinchcombe, SELF, 13 Feb. 2019
  • But there is a nauseating familiarity to the slaughter as well.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 2 Oct. 2017
  • For those who felt the Ridgecrest earthquake from the 50th floor of a downtown L.A. skyscraper, the experience was terrifying — and nauseating.
    — Julia Wickstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2019
  • For the second night in a row, Mattingly was ejected and spent the final innings of another loss — the latest a nauseating 6-5 meltdown to the Cardinals in which the Marlins bullpen blew a 5-1 lead — from the sanctum of the clubhouse.
    — Clark Spencer, miamiherald, 9 May 2017
  • Toxic algae frequently stink and in some cases produce a nauseating smell, yet animals may be attracted to the smell and taste of them, according to the EPA.
    — Susan Scutti, CNN, 26 Aug. 2019
  • Home prices in Los Angeles kept rising for another year or so, but then began a nauseating plunge that didn’t bottom out until mid-2012.
    — Los Angeles Times, 29 July 2019
  • But what makes this book readable, and not merely bleakly nauseating, is Ms. Offill’s appreciation for the ways in which life still pushes on, in darkness, amid hopelessness.
    — Emily Bobrow, WSJ, 7 Feb. 2020

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