nauseate
verb (used with object)
was nauseating
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past progressiveof nauseate.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Scottish National Party MP John Nicolson said the post was "nauseating" and that it "cheapened and debased" politics.
From BBC ● Apr. 9, 2023
“The testimony heard in court Sunday was nauseating and horrifying, reviving grim memories of what we got rid of exactly one year ago,” Yossi Verter, a political columnist, wrote in Monday’s left-wing Haaretz newspaper.
From New York Times ● Jun. 13, 2022
When I started making movies, the idea of peddling a screenplay around Hollywood was nauseating to me when I can write a play and it can be produced.
From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2020
She had been planning to make a soup, but now the thought of soup was nauseating.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 15, 2019
Just the thought of trying to swallow a mouthful was nauseating.
From "I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980" by Lauren Tarshis
