be nauseous

Example Sentences

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I can’t worry about that because I have too many other things to be nauseous about.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 5, 2024

“I’d rather be nauseous with you than not nauseous without you,” he’d say, leaning his head against mine with a weak smile.

From New York Times • May 17, 2019

I’d be nauseous, my limbs would become weak.

From The Guardian • May 6, 2017

And, lastly, the same rapid venom sprinkled over the whole; which, like the dying impotent bite of a trodden benumbed snake, may be nauseous and offensive, but cannot be very dangerous.

From The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 03 Swift's Writings on Religion and the Church — Volume 1 by Swift, Jonathan

"This," writes the doctor, "is the physic I advise you to take; I hope it will not be nauseous or disagreeable to your stomach-a little of it upon a march."

From An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 by Cusack, Mary Frances