stomach-turning

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The cases in which she dissented last week offer stomach-turning examples of what often happens in that system.

From Slate • Oct. 20, 2025

After eating late-night stomach-turning Popeyes in Paris and shedding some tears, we stayed in a trippy '80s-styled hotel, fearful of Parisian bedbugs ready to chomp on our American flesh.

From Salon • Jan. 4, 2025

A stomach-turning stink which is enough to leave people pinching their noses.

From BBC • Sep. 26, 2023

That may be why the film’s naturalistic, unsentimentalized depiction of Höss feels so radical — and so stomach-turning.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 5, 2023

The most stomach-turning odors rose up from the open latrine pits where the men—and Nate—all did their private business.

From I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 by Lauren Tarshis