NAUSEOUS in a Sentence

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1. If the patient is poorly nourished, the drugs make them feel nauseous.
2. The stifling heat of the little room was beginning to make me nauseous.

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 Meanings and Examples of NAUSEOUS
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
nauseous
 a.  feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit
 a.  causing or able to cause nausea
Classic Sentence:
1  Imagine such a corpse a prey to flames, devoured by the fire of burning brimstone and giving off dense choking fumes of nauseous loathsome decomposition.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
2  After the involuntary shrinking consequent on the first nauseous whiff, we one and all set about our work as though that loathsome place were a garden of roses.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
3  There was a moment's silence, and then was heard the crackling of burning flesh, of which the peculiar and nauseous smell penetrated even behind the wall where Dantes was listening in horror.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19. The Third Attack.
Example Sentence:
1  The stifling heat of the little room was beginning to make me nauseous.
2  If the patient is poorly nourished, the drugs make them feel nauseous.