ingested; ingesting; ingests
: to take in for or as if for digestion
Examples of ingest in a Sentence
The drug is more easily ingested in pill form.
claims that the average person ingests considerably more calories than is necessary or desirable
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That machinery is designed to ingest 100 metric tons of lunar regolith per hour and return it to the surface in a continuous motion.
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Leonard David, Space.com, 30 Sep. 2025
River booked his first screen appearance with a recurring role as Tyler Jones on The Pitt, playing a boy hospitalized after accidentally ingesting his parents’ weed gummies.
—Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 30 Sep. 2025
Detective Samantha Choon, a sheriff’s office spokeswoman, said investigators still do not know what the students ingested.
—David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 26 Sep. 2025
They can be hooked to various vehicles and rapidly ingest even the largest piles of leaves.
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Leonard David, Space.com, 30 Sep. 2025
River booked his first screen appearance with a recurring role as Tyler Jones on The Pitt, playing a boy hospitalized after accidentally ingesting his parents’ weed gummies.
—Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 30 Sep. 2025
Detective Samantha Choon, a sheriff’s office spokeswoman, said investigators still do not know what the students ingested.
—David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 26 Sep. 2025
They can be hooked to various vehicles and rapidly ingest even the largest piles of leaves.
—Bestreviews, Mercury News, 26 Sep. 2025
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“Ingest.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ingest. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.
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in-ˈjest 
: to take in for or as if for digestion
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