NAUSEA in a Sentence

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It may have been that his breath was rank, but a horrible feeling of nausea came over me, which, do what I would, I could not conceal.

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 Meanings and Examples of NAUSEA
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
nausea
 n.  feeling of sickness in stomach by an urge to vomit; strong aversion; disgust
Classic Sentence:
1  A swimming nausea compounded of hunger, sleeplessness, exhaustion and stunning blows came on suddenly and she gripped the carved roses under her hand.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
2  The faint niggery smell which crept from the cabin increased her nausea and, without strength to combat it, she kept on retching miserably while the cabins and trees revolved swiftly around her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
3  For a dizzy moment she thought what childbearing meant, the nausea that tore her, the tedious waiting, the thickening of her figure, the hours of pain.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVI
4  She had been able to eat hearty meals two hours after Wade and Ella and Bonnie had been born, but now the thought of anything but cool water brought on feeble nausea.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVI
5  Through the haze of nausea she heard Kennicott grumbling, "Afraid it will have to come off, Adolph."
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
6  It was not the blood but the grating of the surgical saw on the living bone that broke her, and she knew that she had been fighting off nausea, that she was beaten.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
7  The most racking pangs succeeded: a grinding in the bones, deadly nausea, and a horror of the spirit that cannot be exceeded at the hour of birth or death.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
8  And at the very moment of that vain-glorious thought, a qualm came over me, a horrid nausea and the most deadly shuddering.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
9  Mrs. Yeobright attempted to drink, but it was so warm as to give her nausea, and she threw it away.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: 6 A Conjuncture, and Its Result upon the Pedestrian
10  With the last twenty or thirty feet of it a deadly nausea came upon me.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In VI
11  I shivered, and a deadly nausea seized me.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In XI
12  I snuffed it off, and, very ill at ease under the influence of cold and lingering nausea, sat up and spread open the injured tome on my knee.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
13  It may have been that his breath was rank, but a horrible feeling of nausea came over me, which, do what I would, I could not conceal.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
14  Ostermann's flattering words and promise of a reward should therefore have struck him all the more pleasantly, but he still felt that same vaguely disagreeable feeling of moral nausea.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER XV
Example Sentence:
1  Poison from the weaver fish causes paralysis, swelling, and nausea.
2  Signs of the illness include fever, nausea and vomiting.
3  The symptoms include headaches, nausea and vomiting.
4  The side effects include nausea and faintness.
5  For many years, experts in occupational health have puzzled over symptoms reported by office workers, including headache, nausea and fatigue.
6  It dulls the pain, eliminates nausea, and makes you hungry for a protein laden meal.
7  Side effects include dizziness, nausea, and falling asleep.
8  Loss of consciousness, headaches, transient memory loss, slowed cognition, ringing in the ears and nausea are just a few of the symptoms that may or may not be present at the time of an injury.