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

Neither is the welter of Marconi lies which has not been sent vibrating without some reason, for which it would be nauseous to inquire too closely. 

From Notes on Life and Letters by Conrad, Joseph