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

Neither is the welter of Marconi lies which has not been sent vibrating without some reason, for which it would be nauseous to inquire too closely. 

From Notes on Life and Letters by Conrad, Joseph