How to Use nauseate in a Sentence

nauseate

verb
  • The smell of gasoline nauseates me.
  • It nauseated him to see the way the animals were treated.
  • Both of those backs are still on the Texas sideline, which is a sight that could nauseate Texas Tech fans.
    Dallas News, 21 Sep. 2022
  • As is common, I was nauseated a lot in my first trimester with twins.
    Stella Bugbee, The Cut, 1 May 2018
  • She had been feeling nauseated and had not been eating or drinking much for about a week, and had a fever for three days.
    Gul Madison, Philly.com, 12 Jan. 2018
  • About 11 percent of the riders got nauseated or, for other reasons, asked that the car be stopped.
    New York Times, 17 Jan. 2020
  • The ride between her former unit and this one hadn’t been more than a couple of minutes, but she was nauseated.
    Mattie Kahn, Glamour, 22 Aug. 2018
  • Branch said Gabriel was nauseated and vomiting on the evening of the Jan. 24 incident.
    Samantha Schmidt, Washington Post, 13 May 2017
  • The roads to the property are safe but can be uncomfortable for those who feel nauseated in cars.
    Susmita Baral, Travel + Leisure, 20 May 2024
  • On social media, people were shocked and left nauseated by the whirling footage.
    Author: Timothy Bella, Anchorage Daily News, 5 June 2019
  • Dizzy and nauseated, with bruises spreading on both her legs and around her eye, Rosenkrance, 58, nearly passed out.
    Anna Gorman, idahostatesman, 26 Apr. 2017
  • The car ran for six hours before Michael Sobik awoke nauseated.
    Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press, 14 June 2019
  • That anyone could think us a romance nauseated me, while crime and drama seemed overblown.
    Bindu Bansinath, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2018
  • In the Texas case from March, Mr. Lloyd wrote in an email that the girl was nauseated because of her pregnancy and had requested bananas and soup.
    Brent Kendall, WSJ, 27 Oct. 2017
  • The night after the charges were announced, Benson and his wife, nauseated with worry, lay side-by-side in bed, messaging on their phones with friends in Japan.
    Megan Rose, ProPublica, 20 Nov. 2019
  • She was nauseated and vomiting when she was taken to the emergency room of St. Charles Bend.
    Bend Bulletin, oregonlive, 31 Dec. 2019
  • Moving around while looking through the camera, I became nauseated again and had to remove the headset.
    Brian X. Chen, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2024
  • She was nauseated and covered in sweat, had lost her voice and was increasingly struggling to breathe.
    Ashley Fantz, CNN, 24 June 2019
  • The truth is that Dermott and Hank are half-brothers by way of Doc being … well, an even more nauseating sad sack than previously thought.
    Mat Olson, Vulture, 19 July 2023
  • Anyone who spent any amount of time in my room ended up slightly nauseated, because of all the rubber cement.
    Elif Batuman, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2017
  • And yet pregnant women still gnaw on crackers in secret for months rather than tell others why they are nauseated.
    Theresa Vargas, Washington Post, 11 May 2018
  • She was nauseated, and her unborn baby kicked in her stomach.
    Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 5 June 2023
  • The man was nauseated, suffering from severe joint pains, wracked by a strange, convulsive trembling in his legs.
    Deborah Blum, WIRED, 23 Feb. 2011
  • Others left him nauseated, unable to eat or move his bowels.
    Liz Szabo, USA TODAY, 27 Apr. 2017
  • Patients have become weak, short of breath and sometimes nauseated.
    Denise Grady, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2019
  • Some people have reported that the headsets nauseate them.
    New York Times, 5 Nov. 2021
  • This clip ought to nauseate any constitutionalist: Even Hillary Clinton would not have gone so far as to treat the Constitution as a joke.
    Kyle Smith, National Review, 14 Aug. 2020
  • A few weeks later, in early February, Deng, the nurse, was preparing to eat dinner at the hospital office when the sight of food left her nauseated.
    Vivian Wang, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Mar. 2020
  • But maybe Schultz, like so many of us, is terminally nauseated by life in a consumer environment that has been focus-grouped to death.
    Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Toward the end of December 2022, Ms. Stevenson, who had felt nauseated, took a home pregnancy test.
    Alix Strauss, New York Times, 4 May 2024

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