How to Use stomachache in a Sentence

stomachache

noun
  • Eating too much food will give you a stomachache.
  • Side effects include gas, bloating, and stomachache.
  • Eating the wrong food, or too much of the right one, can cause a stomachache.
    Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 21 Nov. 2023
  • Eating the wrong food, or too much of the right one, can cause a stomachache.
    Yasemin Saplakoglu, WIRED, 14 Jan. 2024
  • But more often, I’ll be pinned to the couch for hours with a stomachache.
    Priya Krishna, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2022
  • One of my kids is bound to have a stomachache, a cut, or sticky fingers at any time.
    Jen Jones, Redbook, 17 Aug. 2017
  • The next day, Chris’s father complained about a stomachache.
    New York Times, 9 Jan. 2021
  • The boy came into the nurse’s office that day complaining of a stomachache.
    Stephanie Hanes, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Sep. 2021
  • Or saying that Sander had a headache, a stomachache, or just wasn’t feeling well and wanted to come home.
    Rebecca Johnson, Vogue, 18 July 2017
  • The boy has suffered sleepless nights, complaining of a headache and a stomachache.
    Robert Klemko, Washington Post, 9 July 2022
  • Jay was at home, sick with another stomachache, when the text message came in.
    Casey Parks, OregonLive.com, 28 July 2017
  • The post Iowa’s running game is one big, gassy stomachache with punting and turnovers part of the problem appeared first on Land of 10.
    Scott Dochterman, ajc, 30 Sep. 2017
  • At least at these schools, the days are gone when a school nurse could only offer basic care for scrapes, fevers and stomachaches.
    Talia Richman, baltimoresun.com, 9 Feb. 2018
  • One day, Maria gets a terrible stomachache and goes to the emergency room.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 6 Apr. 2022
  • Over time that stomachache could turn into something much worse.
    Chelese Perry, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Does your child have increased headaches, stomachaches or other pains?
    Larry Villano, Lpc, Lisac, USA TODAY, 8 June 2018
  • The bill would add mental health days off from school, like sick days for a physical ailment such as a cold or stomachache.
    CBS News, 6 Jan. 2023
  • Just thinking about how embarrassing that will be is enough to give me a stomachache.
    Annie Lane, oregonlive, 20 Mar. 2021
  • Hoping to keep it healthy and maybe bulk up your muscles while also avoiding a stomachache?
    Dallas News, 6 July 2020
  • Somewhere between a souvenir T-shirt and a stomachache.
    Jessi Roti, chicagotribune.com, 16 June 2017
  • Music class, where we were expected to sing solos, gave me a stomachache.
    Vogue, 31 May 2022
  • About four weeks to the day after, Caden complained about a stiff neck, stomachache and a high temperature.
    Jen Christensen, CNN, 6 Mar. 2021
  • Now 26, Sam remembers waking up one night with a stomachache.
    Cara Kelly, USA Today, 22 Oct. 2020
  • For example, anxiety may show up as a stomachache or a headache.
    Andrea Kane, CNN, 7 Apr. 2024
  • Either one or both mice were injected with diluted acetic acid, which is known to cause a mild stomachache.
    Frans B. M. De Waal, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2015
  • This kit gives you the equipment to deal with the most common injuries on the trail: blisters, sprains, cuts, stomachaches, and allergic reactions.
    Graham Averill, Outside Online, 9 July 2018
  • Experts say parents, the front lines of health care, need to watch for patterns or symptoms that might be mistaken for something else: A fear of stomachaches.
    BostonGlobe.com, 2 Nov. 2019
  • Rogers Park students’ symptoms have ranged from a fever to body aches to lethargy to headaches to stomachaches to congestion, the school principal wrote in an email to parents this week.
    Tegan Hanlon, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Nov. 2019
  • Others have described having a more general pain or stomachache that won't go away.
    Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 3 June 2024
  • Most people start feeling stomachaches, fever and diarrhea within six hours or six days from eating salmonella and recover in four to seven days so most outbreak illness counts are low.
    David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 4 July 2024

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