be nauseous

Example Sentences

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I can’t worry about that because I have too many other things to be nauseous about.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 5, 2024

“I’d rather be nauseous with you than not nauseous without you,” he’d say, leaning his head against mine with a weak smile.

From New York Times • May 17, 2019

I’d be nauseous, my limbs would become weak.

From The Guardian • May 6, 2017

She was talking slowly, dragging her vowels and gesturing with her hands, acting as a person twice her age might act and even then be nauseous.

From Nan Sherwood on the Mexican Border by Carr, Annie Roe

And, lastly, the same rapid venom sprinkled over the whole; which, like the dying impotent bite of a trodden benumbed snake, may be nauseous and offensive, but cannot be very dangerous.

From The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 03 Swift's Writings on Religion and the Church — Volume 1 by Swift, Jonathan