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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It was later discovered that Vegas suffered an obstruction caused by ingesting a toy or bedding.
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Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Nov. 2025
But microbes that most adults can ingest without incident—including the ones that caused the 2021–22 outbreak and today’s—can cause life-threatening complications for babies, because the newborn immune system isn’t developed enough to fight them off.
—Nicholas Florko, The Atlantic, 18 Nov. 2025
More often than not, the show’s celebrity guests end up shedding tears and gasping for air after ingesting even small amounts of them.
—Kansas City Star, 18 Nov. 2025
Drawing on reports of more than a century’s worth of animal deaths, the researchers determined both how much plastic creatures had ingested and whether that plastic was the cause of their death.
—Veronique Greenwood, Time, 18 Nov. 2025
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Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Nov. 2025
But microbes that most adults can ingest without incident—including the ones that caused the 2021–22 outbreak and today’s—can cause life-threatening complications for babies, because the newborn immune system isn’t developed enough to fight them off.
—Nicholas Florko, The Atlantic, 18 Nov. 2025
More often than not, the show’s celebrity guests end up shedding tears and gasping for air after ingesting even small amounts of them.
—Kansas City Star, 18 Nov. 2025
Drawing on reports of more than a century’s worth of animal deaths, the researchers determined both how much plastic creatures had ingested and whether that plastic was the cause of their death.
—Veronique Greenwood, Time, 18 Nov. 2025
See All Example Sentences for ingest
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“Ingest.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ingest. Accessed 24 Nov. 2025.
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in·gest
in-ˈjest 
: to take in for or as if for digestion
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