hangover

Example Sentences

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Paying for an evening workout class with friends is less likely to feel like a financial hangover because we accomplished something positive with our money.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026

In these tough times, some discount chains have been thriving, but California’s Grocery Outlet has been closing stores as it tries to remedy a hangover of overexpansion.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2026

It was not a hangover from the celebrations.

From BBC • Mar. 4, 2026

It was a hangover from the mental and physical exertions spent over the whole Bethpage cycle.

From BBC • Mar. 4, 2026

Robbie had put down his trowel and stood to roll a cigarette, a hangover from his Communist Party time—another abandoned fad, along with his ambitions in anthropology, and the planned hike from Calais to Istanbul.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan