nauseating

Example Sentences

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It was infested with rats and cockroaches, and smelt "nauseating".

From BBC • Mar. 4, 2026

It’s not enough to save the aesthetic of the entire film, though, which is somehow both gray and nauseating.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 23, 2026

While Mr. Party’s paintings are often nauseating at scale—vacuous portraits and landscapes in candy-store palettes—hitting his pieces with a shrink ray does wonders for them, and not just because there’s less to look at.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026

As night fell, I switched back to my original Twitter account, and sunk deep into that familiar, nauseating exasperation.

From Slate • Mar. 8, 2025

The thick scent of the tree blossoms was beginning to border on nauseating.

From "Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story" by Nora Raleigh Baskin