How to Use nauseating in a Sentence

nauseating

adjective
  • It was nauseating to see the two of them act like lovesick teenagers.
  • The way the animals were treated was nauseating.
  • At the end of the day, the rich taste of red wine may not be worth the cost of a nauseating headache or an itchy rash.
    Claire Maldarelli, Popular Science, 27 Dec. 2019
  • There were flames and smoke and grit, and the smell of burning human flesh was nauseating.
    Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 26 Apr. 2017
  • Raw sewage leaked from an unsealed pipe, and the nauseating smell lasted for days.
    OrlandoSentinel.com, 19 Sep. 2017
  • In my world, working side-by-side with someone who smells bad can be nauseating.
    Ramona Sentinel, 16 Aug. 2019
  • The glib and easy use of the term can also lead to nauseating self-righteousness.
    Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, 1 Sep. 2017
  • Even if Basch’s ogling of the doctor is nauseating, his point about the erotics of medicine has something true in it.
    Rachel Pearson, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2019
  • The nauseating jolt of a theme park ride is a useful metaphor for stock prices of young software companies this week.
    Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2019
  • And because the video of this tragedy — taking place in front of the man’s 4-year-old daughter, no less — is so nauseating.
    Will Bunch, Philly.com, 20 June 2017
  • One way to mitigate the nauseating effects is to drink lots of water, but that meant double the bathroom breaks on the drive there.
    Cady Drell, Glamour, 27 Sep. 2019
  • Anything milder has no effect on me, no kick at the back of the throat, no nicotine rush; anything stronger is nauseating and too strong to inhale deeply.
    Longreads, 14 Oct. 2017
  • There may be no worse feeling in all of bowhunting than the nauseating regret that comes from making a bad shot on a trophy animal.
    Jeff Murray, Field & Stream, 8 Nov. 2019
  • Rocky’s case brings with it, for many, a nauseating feeling of familiarity.
    Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 27 July 2019
  • But there is a nauseating familiarity to the slaughter as well.
    Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 2 Oct. 2017
  • But a few of those fizzles stung, and the repetition felt like a rollercoaster - fun at first, but nauseating before long.
    Hannah Orenstein, chicagotribune.com, 30 June 2018
  • But this plate of pasta — bitter and pungent, nourishing and perhaps a bit nauseating — should be savored on its own.
    A. O. Scott, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2018
  • Alas, so strong was the body’s nauseating stench that the King’s party could only take him as far as nearby Nantua.
    Jack Hartnell, Time, 30 Oct. 2019
  • Nothing is quite as nauseating as Pepto Bismal pink or an 80's shade of dusty rose.
    Bridget Mallon, ELLE Decor, 13 Oct. 2015
  • This movie is a gleeful carnival of nauseating grotesqueries.
    Michael Heaton, cleveland.com, 15 Sep. 2017
  • Acrid and nauseating, the chlorine scent always overcame the delicious smells of whatever had been cooked that night.
    Amiel Stanek, Bon Appetit, 17 Mar. 2017
  • For centuries, people used their own common sense to detect, and mitigate, nauseating smells.
    Melissa Davis, The Seattle Times, 14 Aug. 2017
  • Not one smidgen of evidence of this has been found, but that doesn’t stop the liberals from reporting it as truth every single nauseating day.
    Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 18 May 2017
  • GoPro videos are cool in theory but sometimes nauseating in practice.
    Rachel Z. Arndt, Popular Mechanics, 12 Aug. 2014
  • The virtual balcony is specially programed to avoid any nauseating side effects and can be turned off at your convenience.
    Olivia Rassow, ELLE Decor, 7 Feb. 2014
  • But over the next three games, a series of calamities sends you on a nauseating 0-3 run, putting your once-mighty squad at 6-7 and very much out of the playoffs.
    BostonGlobe.com, 15 Nov. 2019
  • Being in a fast car is particularly nauseating because everything blurs past — not just scenery, but lines of movement, too.
    Elaine Reilly As Told To Diane Shipley, The Cut, 16 Oct. 2017
  • While the media and Hollywood are stretched to an extreme, the portrayal is believable, which is the nauseating thing about it all.
    Will Nevin, OregonLive.com, 27 Oct. 2017
  • The researchers posit that this impressive (and kind of nauseating) distance is because smaller pathogens can travel as part of a buoyant cloud that extends their reach.
    Colleen Stinchcombe, SELF, 13 Feb. 2019
  • That’s why Tuesday’s NBA draft lottery was both nauseating and predictable.
    Dan Bickley, USA TODAY, 16 May 2017

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