Example Sentences

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The bartender reached for the whiskey, but the cowboy shook his head; either he was a teetotaler — rare in those parts — or he was a little saggy in the saddlebags, digestively speaking.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 14, 2023

The network had rolling coverage in February 2013 of a digestively troubled cruise liner known as the “poop ship,” and in 2014 became equally focused on the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370.

From New York Times • Feb. 4, 2021

The Happy Family was in no condition, mentally or digestively, to judge impartially.

From The Happy Family by Bower, B. M.

One thing, however, is quite certain, namely,—that there is no prohibition of digestively assimilating our neighbor with ourselves, from one end of the Bible to the other.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 17, March, 1859 by Various

In the larger drawing-room Luke was fortunate enough to secure a seat near to Agatha - quite near, and a long way from Mrs. Ingham-Baker, digestively asleep in an armchair.

From The Grey Lady by Merriman, Henry Seton