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

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

From Slate • Mar. 8, 2025

While they made me feel a particularly nauseating dread, they also made me feel alive, teeming with speculation about what they meant to Lynch and why I loved being steeped in their ambiguity.

From Salon • Jan. 25, 2025

In spite of the heavy fog rolling in, it was like some filmy gauze had been cleared from the atmosphere, or like a particularly nauseating stench had been done away with.

From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon