nauseating
Example Sentences
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A rom-com need not be a sparkling shelf covered with bon-bons, but it shouldn’t be a nauseating cloud of carbon monoxide that makes you want to flee.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026
It was infested with rats and cockroaches, and smelt "nauseating".
From BBC • Mar. 4, 2026
In this moment, Egoyan asks us to consider all the nauseating possibilities surrounding that truth.
From Salon • Mar. 12, 2025
As night fell, I switched back to my original Twitter account, and sunk deep into that familiar, nauseating exasperation.
From Slate • Mar. 8, 2025
To top it all off, its eyes are a nauseating puke-beige color.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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