How to Use nauseous in a Sentence

nauseous

adjective
  • The smell of gasoline makes me nauseous.
  • I began to feel nauseous.
  • The throbbing, nauseous headaches that used to shut down his life for days at a time just stop.
    — Paul Sisson, sandiegouniontribune.com, 4 June 2018
  • Get on a ride, get nauseous, puke, eat some more, and go on another ride.
    — Samantha Hissong, Rolling Stone, 13 Sep. 2021
  • The three-hour drive from Boulder has left me a little nauseous and grumpy.
    — Cedar Wright, Outside Online, 9 Apr. 2018
  • Within the hour, though, Bassett got a headache and grew nauseous.
    — Popular Science, 21 Jan. 2020
  • What followed was years of chemo treatments that left him feeling weak, nauseous and dizzy.
    — Mark Stewart, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 Sep. 2017
  • Logan became lethargic and nauseous, and his rash had spread.
    — Dan Wine, OrlandoSentinel.com, 20 June 2018
  • The whiplash of the NFL world can make one slightly nauseous.
    — Ann Killion, SFChronicle.com, 18 Oct. 2020
  • The scoring system for each task shows how likely a person will get nauseous.
    — Roberto Baldwin, Car and Driver, 14 Aug. 2020
  • And feeling nauseous from a few minutes of passenger princess phone tasks straight-up sucks.
    — Lauren Mazzo, SELF, 27 Sep. 2024
  • Out of it, sick all the time, getting pumped full of medicines to manage his pain but then getting nauseous from the medicines.
    — Dan Labbe, cleveland, 3 Jan. 2021
  • When the meeting was over, Sondrup felt shaky and slightly nauseous.
    — Katie Johnston, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Feb. 2021
  • Some got nauseous or vomited, and a few had racing hearts, chest pain or other symptoms.
    — Mike Stobbe, Star Tribune, 30 Apr. 2021
  • Flying can sometimes make people feel uneasy or nauseous.
    — Lydia Mansel, Southern Living, 20 Dec. 2025
  • A little nauseous but otherwise not too bad and baby girl is trying to figure things out.
    — Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 5 Apr. 2024
  • If the chemo didn't make Ensler nauseous, that comment certainly should have.
    — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Feb. 2018
  • One of the common beliefs about cancer is that treatment always leaves you nauseous and fatigued.
    — Alice Oglethorpe, Good Housekeeping, 3 Aug. 2020
  • In these attack-like episodes, Lila becomes nauseous, Ferrante writes.
    — Jennifer Wilson, The New Republic, 16 Jan. 2020
  • Not so, insisted Blatty, who claimed to have posted up at the back of a theater to watch the nauseous flee.
    — Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2023
  • Jen Psaki accepted a piece of jerky, and, upon putting it in her mouth, looked nauseous, but was still too nice to protest.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 4 Nov. 2024
  • First responders’ and residents’ throats were burning, and many began to feel nauseous and dizzy.
    — Jacob Carter, STAT, 10 Nov. 2023
  • Unplugging at the end of the night also sometimes helps me to wake up feeling refreshed instead of nauseous.
    — NBC News, 14 Sep. 2017
  • Harpreet felt lightheaded that night and broke her fast, but Rajnish, who felt nauseous, continued.
    — Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 26 July 2023
  • The colors were gaudy, the arrangement of figures too crowded, the visual effect like the first nauseous signs of a migraine.
    — David Gilbert, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2017
  • For example, someone in a skyscraper might start to feel nauseous, nervous, and get wobbly knees when on a balcony or close to a high window.
    — Conor Feehly, Discover Magazine, 4 Dec. 2021
  • But on the third day of taking antibiotics, Brittany began feeling nauseous.
    — Patricia Varas, Miami Herald, 19 Dec. 2025
  • There’s nothing worse than sitting at a poolside bar enjoying the ocean views and suddenly feeling nauseous.
    — Megan Dubois, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 May 2024
  • The smell was so bad passengers were nauseous and allegedly began to faint, according to Newsweek.
    — Alexia Fernandez, PEOPLE.com, 27 June 2018
  • University of Kentucky fans can tell you about Austin Peay and some nauseous moments.
    — Tom Groeschen, Cincinnati.com, 21 Aug. 2017

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