How to Use stomach in a Sentence

stomach

1 of 2 noun
  • He was lying on his stomach.
  • She has problems with her stomach.
  • I've had enough to eat. My stomach is full.
  • No food in the kitchen ready for small stomachs.
    — Dejanay Booth-Singleton, CBS News, 21 Feb. 2026
  • He was shot three times in the arm and stomach.
    — Sara Tenenbaum, CBS News, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Food to fill the stomach, and fire the soul.
    — The Week Uk, TheWeek, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Each blow echoed against her chest, her stomach.
    — Lizz Schumer, PEOPLE, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Then the shirt comes off and the stomach is sucked in.
    — David Kamp, New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2025
  • My skin felt dirty, and my stomach tensed with fear.
    — Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Lee was shot in the chest and the stomach, cops said.
    — Kerry Burke, New York Daily News, 26 May 2026
  • The male nurse pulled up her arms and washed her stomach.
    — Laura Vazquez, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Don’t gag, don’t cry — and my stomach lurched.
    — Kate Crane, Rolling Stone, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Lie on your stomach with a strap looped around your right foot.
    — Jenny McCoy, Outside, 31 Aug. 2025
  • Lisa Phillips felt sick to her stomach.
    — Erin Mansfield, USA Today, 2 Nov. 2025
  • Just thinking about it gives me a knot in my stomach.
    — Lea Chen, CNBC, 4 Nov. 2025
  • My stomach churned with one too many sugary gels.
    — Dimity McDowell, Time, 24 Feb. 2026
  • My symptoms turned out to be the stomach flu.
    — Josh Rivera, USA Today, 21 June 2026
  • If iron upsets your stomach, take it with a small snack.
    — Sara Hoffman, Verywell Health, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Now my stomach hurts just thinking about it.
    — Deirdre Bardolf, FOXNews.com, 10 Jan. 2026
  • Losing a dog can make your stomach drop and your thoughts race.
    — Staff, FOXNews.com, 9 Feb. 2026
  • His hands move up to his stomach and his chest and begin to slap.
    — Matthew Shen Goodman, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
  • The video shows the sergeant crawling on his stomach.
    — Joe Brandt, CBS News, 9 Jan. 2026
  • The blast left a grid pattern of burns on his chest and stomach.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 3 Sep. 2025
  • The other was shot in the stomach.
    — Rebecca White, New York Daily News, 27 June 2026
  • Each of the women has a heart, a set of lungs and a stomach.
    — Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 5 Oct. 2025
  • A lot of people don’t have that stomach to eat crap for a decade.
    — Esha Chhabra, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026
  • The whole book offers a feast for both the heart and the stomach.
    — Karen Ostergren, The Atlantic, 13 Oct. 2025
  • If the bear attempts to roll you over, try to stay on your stomach.
    — ABC News, 28 May 2026
  • The painkillers had caused an upset stomach.
    — Charlotte Harpur, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Alex, who sits beside her, has his hands placed on her stomach.
    — Kayla Grant, PEOPLE, 22 May 2026

stomach

2 of 2 verb
  • I could barely stomach the smell.
  • I can't stomach raw onions.
  • Not many would be able to stomach it.
    — Dave Smith, Fortune, 30 Oct. 2025
  • That’s kind of hard to stomach, right?
    — Joel Feder, The Drive, 3 June 2026
  • It's been a tough decline to stomach.
    — Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 27 Feb. 2026
  • The intense taste and smell can make this tonic hard to stomach.
    — Kathleen Ferraro, Verywell Health, 24 Oct. 2025
  • For some, this is simply too stressful to stomach.
    — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 12 Nov. 2025
  • After a massive meal, there are some among us who couldn’t stomach the thought of a full dessert.
    — Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 9 Nov. 2021
  • Such a deal might be hard to stomach for the Ukrainian people.
    — Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2022
  • Those who can stomach it will be rewarded with a courageous work of art.
    — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Mar. 2022
  • Love the smell of pumpkin spice but can't stomach a daily latte?
    — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 20 Nov. 2022
  • But my light-sleeping partner can’t stomach a night with no Zzs.
    — Kristin Scharkey, Sunset Magazine, 29 Mar. 2022
  • This flesh-eating repertoire is hard enough to stomach in the abstract.
    — Marion Renault, The Atlantic, 2 June 2021
  • This may be hard for some – both inside and outside Ukraine – to stomach.
    — Jeffrey Fields, The Conversation, 4 Apr. 2022
  • Of the players this team could stomach losing, Poole might be the best trade chip.
    — Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 May 2023
  • For all who were able to stomach them, penguin and seal steaks reversed the effects of scurvy.
    — Julian Sancton, Time, 12 May 2021
  • Some consumers, at least for now, are willing to stomach higher prices.
    — Min Joo Kim, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Sep. 2022
  • Body Politic’s Vázquez told me, and some are willing to stomach a bit of risk.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 10 May 2022
  • The key, experts said, is for investors to learn to stomach them and ride out the inevitable ups and downs.
    — Paul R. La Monica, CNN, 21 Dec. 2021
  • Trump’s lawyers, for reasons known only to them, made claims that most of the justices could not stomach.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 18 Oct. 2022
  • But those can often be the very reason why some people cannot stomach protein shakes.
    — Esha Chhabra, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2023
  • Even so, highs in the low to mid-90s were still hard to stomach for more than a short period.
    — Washington Post, 28 July 2021
  • Spending hundreds or even thousands of dollars on one item is hard to stomach.
    — Medea Giordano, Wired, 29 May 2021
  • Prices at the pump are getting a little bit easier to stomach.
    — Nick Maslow, PEOPLE.com, 11 Apr. 2022
  • That has made this strange Easter perhaps even harder to stomach than the last one.
    — Washington Post, 4 Apr. 2021
  • The latter would be hard to stomach if there’s another double bagel.
    — Tim Ellis, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Arch Manning’s last stand That’s if Longhorns fans can stomach it.
    — Jim Barnes, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 Oct. 2025
  • The idea that a chatbot could outperform human men might be hard for some people to stomach.
    — Faith Hill, The Atlantic, 17 Jan. 2026
  • At times, the graphic gruesomeness and despair in the novel can be hard to stomach.
    — Manuel Roig-Franzia, Washington Post, 14 July 2022
  • How much of this turmoil will Ellison stomach?
    — Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 3 June 2026

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