Example Sentences

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If they consume RRP-treated horn powder, they will heavily suffer from nausea, stomach-ache and diarrhea.

From Scientific American • May 9, 2013

Despite my diligent consumption of ginger and wine, would I succumb to the symptoms of cold - stomach-ache and vomiting?

From BBC • Dec. 15, 2012

He insists, through blithe pages sprinkled with woodcuts and quiet humor, on sharing with his reader everything from the smell of quaint, stagecoachy old inns to a "stomach-ache acquired delightfully on Devon strawberries."

From Time Magazine Archive

I even had sort of a stomach-ache, if you want to know the truth.

From "The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger

Master Edward was not troubled with the stomach-ache, neither did he wake Mr. Witherington at five o'clock in the morning; and, after all, it was not very uncomfortable.

From The Pirate, and The Three Cutters by Sullivan, Edmund J. (Edmund Joseph)