How to Use food poisoning in a Sentence

food poisoning

noun
  • For the fifth, Steele dealt with what was thought to be food poisoning.
    Michael Gehlken, Dallas News, 1 Oct. 2020
  • So yes, the stomach flu can be a type of food poisoning.
    Korin Miller, SELF, 30 Sep. 2020
  • And a case of food poisoning forced him to sit out a game against Hobart.
    Michael Osipoff, chicagotribune.com, 23 Mar. 2022
  • The longer raw fish sits around in a kitchen, the higher the likelihood of food poisoning.
    Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Read on for the details to avoid any chance of leftover rice food poisoning in the future.
    Andrea Beck, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Aug. 2022
  • No food is worth salvaging for a bout of food poisoning.
    Susan Choung, Good Housekeeping, 25 Apr. 2023
  • In the four decades since, Coombs has missed only one day of work—because of food poisoning.
    Nick Yetto, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Mar. 2022
  • In fact, food poisoning is very common in the United States.
    The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic, 7 Sep. 2022
  • Aired during episode six of the show, the row started when Ruhl was bedbound with food poisoning.
    Emma Kershaw, Peoplemag, 8 May 2023
  • Steady rain and crippling food poisoning could not slow down Woods.
    Edgar Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 28 Feb. 2021
  • Nobody wants food poisoning – or to make their guests sick.
    Ruth S. MacDonald, The Conversation, 21 July 2021
  • Mims wasn't on the field for most of the offseason program because of his bout with food poisoning.
    Andy Vasquez, USA TODAY, 12 Aug. 2021
  • Now, officials are asking them not to consume the food due to a risk of food poisoning.
    Gabriella Ybarra, San Antonio Express-News, 3 Feb. 2023
  • Concerns about rice food poisoning have made the rounds on TikTok.
    Stephanie Brown, Verywell Health, 30 May 2023
  • Florence Pugh didn’t let a bout of food poisoning break her spirits.
    Alexis Jones, Peoplemag, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Snell had been on the injury list after feeling the effects of food poisoning.
    Rob Maaddi, Star Tribune, 4 July 2021
  • Meat, chicken, turkey, seafood, and eggs can carry germs that cause food poisoning, the CDC says.
    Kelly Tyko, USA TODAY, 14 Dec. 2020
  • Anybody who can make out these controls in the dark gets my vote for standing in when the captain of the Space Shuttle gets food poisoning.
    Rich Ceppos, Car and Driver, 7 May 2023
  • In my household, there was nothing to do for food poisoning except throw it up.
    Rachel Epstein, Marie Claire, 26 Apr. 2021
  • But once in the village, aside from a bout with food poisoning and showering with a bucket, all of that melted away.
    Ernie Suggs, ajc, 26 Aug. 2021
  • Nicole Haynes was a junior and an accomplished track athlete in 1995 when food poisoning forced her to go to the clinic.
    Laura Newberry, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2021
  • How many food poisoning reports has iwaspoisoned.com received related to the House of Prime Rib?
    Elena Kadvany, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 May 2021
  • Andy Murray, but advanced in a walkover because Murray dealt with a bout of food poisoning.
    Adam Zagoria, Forbes, 5 May 2022
  • In the past it could have been used with food poisoning in restaurants, bogus bank accounts being opened and data hacks.
    Bill Conerly, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2021
  • Stress and a change of diet meant several came down with food poisoning in Finland.
    Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 May 2022
  • However, some types of food poisoning can last even longer.
    Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 11 Jan. 2024
  • A few weeks after our stay, there was a food poisoning outbreak and the catering company was changed.
    Pauline Lockwood, CNN, 27 June 2021
  • Safety, to food experts, refers to an item’s ability to cause the kind of food poisoning that sends people to the hospital.
    Yasmin Tayag, The Atlantic, 30 Nov. 2022
  • It was dispensed as a treatment for food poisoning in England.
    Kathrine Nero, The Enquirer, 20 Mar. 2022
  • Halsey came down with a severe bout of food poisoning over the weekend ahead of her performance at the U.K.’s Leeds Festival.
    Glenn Rowley, Billboard, 29 Aug. 2022

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