How to Use postprandial in a Sentence

postprandial

adjective
  • That said, the daily regime—from predawn wake-up calls to postprandial fireside chats—can be tiring.
    — Pippa De Bruyn, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Gone are the napkins tortured into swans and the postprandial triage that shunted women to the drawing room while men dealt business.
    — Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2018
  • When the foods were chewed the postprandial blood glucose levels rose to levels which varied according to the food ingested.
    — Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 1 Sep. 2014
  • Gender imbalance in the kitchen is as French as foie gras and as traditional as a postprandial coffee.
    — Assia Labbas, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2018
  • The woman also reportedly suffered from postprandial chest pain, or chest pain after meals.
    — Maggie O'Neill, Health.com, 29 Apr. 2020
  • But during some postprandial moments, trusting a professional with dog walking duty and crashing on a couch sounds a lot nicer.
    — Sam Dangremond, Town & Country, 20 Nov. 2015
  • Meta-analyses support the link between short-term postprandial blood sugar reduction and long-term glycemic improvement.
    — Verywell Health, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Cynar is used in pre-dinner drinks like spritz and negroni, but is also drunk as a postprandial digestif because of its savory artichoke flavor.
    — Rebecca Ann Hughes, Forbes, 26 June 2021
  • Patterson parked just off I-5, which bisects the lagoon, and, with semis rumbling in the background, prepared to take a postprandial nap.
    — Nicola Twilley, The New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2020
  • Swallowing food without chewing; a simple way to reduce postprandial glycaemia.
    — Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 1 Sep. 2014
  • Here’s a detailed rundown of some of the physical and psychological forces that could be behind your ongoing postprandial hunger—and how to tackle each of them.
    — Caroline Tien, SELF, 1 Apr. 2026
  • What follows is a humble sample of my recent food adventures in three areas, plus a handful of suggestions for pre- and postprandial activities.
    — Seth Kugel, New York Times, 1 July 2019
  • At a postprandial gathering with friends, talk turns to the crucial reconnection with nature after months trapped within four walls rarely unplugged from screens and technology.
    — Rebecca Ann Hughes, Forbes, 28 June 2021
  • We were treated to several minutes of this special performance before the dude's postprandial Uber whisked him away into the buzzing twilight of west Wrigleyville.
    — Mike Sula, Chicago Reader, 22 June 2017
  • Zimmer brings us to pythons in a lab that remain in a minimal metabolic state until they are fed, and then ramp up the activity in their tissues; the change from the resting state to their postprandial state has no parallel in the vertebrate world.
    — New York Times, 24 Mar. 2021
  • As postprandial drinks of obstbrande, an apple/pear schnapps particular to the region, were poured, chitchat about music, politics and the Fuchs family's hunting and foraging adventures formed the soundtrack.
    — Liza Weisstuch, chicagotribune.com, 25 Oct. 2019
  • As postprandial drinks of obstbrande, an apple/pear schnapps particular to the region, were poured, chitchat about music, politics and the Fuchs family’s hunting and foraging adventures formed the soundtrack.
    — Liza Weisstuch, Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2019
  • Biologists have actually been able to measure this physiological dip in our alertness—what science calls a postprandial dip—through changes in our metabolic system, as well as adjustments in our brain waves, and in our cognitive reaction times.
    — Claire Maldarelli, Popular Science, 11 Apr. 2017
  • This could be the postprandial transmission of the gut hormone glucagon-like peptide-1, or GLP-1, which signals fullness to the brain, or oestrogen from the ovaries, which is sent to pubertal breast tissue, stimulating it to grow.
    — Literary Hub, 20 May 2026
  • Distention induced contractile activity was significantly increased near defecation threshold, but pre- and postprandial conditions were not different.
    — Ncbi Rofl, Discover Magazine, 8 Feb. 2012

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