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• Despite our hangover and lack of supplies, we scrounged out a breakfast.From the entry scrounge out
• After years of junk drinks and hangovers, she finally gave up alcohol.From the entry junk drink
• Some people say that a hangover is caused by impurities in the drink, not by the alcohol per se.From the entry per se
• I've got a terrific hangover this morning.From the entry terrific
• We all had hangovers after a boozy weekend in town.From the entry boozy
• What some people call a 'social hangover' is the feeling of exhaustion after depleting all your energy.2021 May 14, Kirsty Grant, “Covid lockdown easing: Why am I exhausted after socialising?”, in BBC, archived from the original on 03 May 2024. From the entry social hangover
• A social hangover generally feels a lot like a burnout: fatigue, inability to concentrate, some grouchiness.2021 May 16, Rhys Thomas, “How to tell if you have a ‘social hangover’ (and how to minimise one if you do)”, in GQ, archived from the…. From the entry social hangover
• Her feeling of humiliation had intensified as the day had gone on and her hangover had worsened.2019, Ruth Kelly, The Little Vineyard in Provence. From the entry fear
• As we enjoy the festive season, many strongly held beliefs about avoiding hangovers are thrown around.2018 January 1, “Shaken not stirred by mixing drinks”, in The New Zealand Herald, page A13. From the entry beer before liquor, never been sicker; liquor before beer, you're in the clear
• The blackouts, the hangovers, the vomiting, the hotboxes, the detox, the shame, and the degradation.2012, Maxine Thompson, L..A. Blues II. From the entry hotbox
• We are still in bed, nursing a hangover from the previous night's party.2011, Joyce Ewing-Chow, Keeping Life Simple, page 19. From the entry dawn choir
• Although sometimes I'd award myself a cheeky McDonald's hangover treat if I did well.2009, Amy Huberman, Hello, Heartbreak, Penguin UK, →ISBN. From the entry cheeky
• I thought the church was a hangover from the Middle Ages, if not the dinosaurs.[2009, Martha Whitmore Hickman, chapter 15, in The Walls Come Tumbling Down, Nashville, Tenn.: Hummingbird & Heron, →ISBN, page 212. From the entry Tyrannosaura Regina
• Ben's hangovers just make him look more beautiful, in a blitzed, cheekbony way.1999, Serena Mackesy, The Temp, page 245. From the entry blitzed
• The fear was a hundred times worse than the hangover.2020, Mark Ratcliffe, The Step Down: A Very Scottish Crime. From the entry fear
• If your finished drink tastes like a children’s vitamin, it’s wrong, and it’s a hangover biding its time.2019 May 9, Rebekah Peppler, “The Aperol Spritz Is Not a Good Drink”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry Aperol spritz
• Then I'd spend Saturday a bundle of hangover nerves, waiting for Saturday wine o'clock to make it disappear.2014, Binki Laidler, Staying Sober: How to Control the Drink Demon, Accent Press, →ISBN. From the entry wine o'clock
• For starters, you can get the same brain-stabbing hangover you get from malt liquor at nearly three times the price.2004, Ray James, The Man Show on Tap: A Guide to All Things Beer. From the entry brain-stabbing
• A massive hangover with a life of its own kept Fess pinned to his bed most of Sunday.2003, Kristin Hunter Lattany, The Lakestown Rebellion, page 185. From the entry life of its own
• I saw him as a Reagan hangover, and unlike my fellow citizens, I had never cared much for Ronnie.2000, Lydia Millet, George Bush, Dark Prince of Love: A Presidential Romance, page 17. From the entry Gippermania
• Manhattan café society provokes a lot of writing, most of it about as enduring as a café socialite's hangover.1938 Sept. 19, "Books: Caf" (book review of The Happy Island by Dawn Powell), Time (retrieved 26 May 2014). From the entry café society
• One is that mixing different types of drinks is likely to make you feel unwell during your drinking session and contribute to a worse hangover.2018 January 1, “Shaken not stirred by mixing drinks”, in The New Zealand Herald, page A13. From the entry beer before liquor, never been sicker; liquor before beer, you're in the clear
• For more mind-numbing claptrap, how about “all-natural liquid oxygen” drops under the tongue to fight jet lag, fatigue, hangover, and aging skin?2014, Joe Schwarcz, Is That a Fact?: Frauds, Quacks, and the Real Science of Everyday Life, →ISBN. From the entry liquid oxygen
• There were, of course, the hangovers.2012, “A Glass Half Empty”, from “Modern Love” in The New York Times by Elissa Schappell, 2012-08-17. From the entry cocktail flu
• There is no consensus definition of veisalgia ("alcohol hangover," from the Norwegian kveis, or "uneasiness following debauchery," and the Greek algia, or "pain").2000 June 6, Jeffrey G. Wiese, Michael G. Shlipak, Warren S. Browner, “The Alcohol Hangover”, in Annals of Internal Medicine, volume 132…. From the entry veisalgia
• At ten to one, Sid slouched in with an overflowing briefcase in one hand and a basketball under his arm, complaining of a hangover.1999, Ray Smith, The Man who Loved Jane Austen, page 158. From the entry like the bottom of a birdcage
• Usually I choose the lesser evil of insomnia because in addition to the pain at 6am, I am incapacitated by the hangover from the sedative.1988, E[dward] J[ames] Moran Campbell, Not Always on the Level, [London]: British Medical Journal, →ISBN, page 194. From the entry catch-22
• Christmas and New Year's Eve celebrations often used to result in a hangover, but with moderation now the order of the day the new drinks industry buzzword is "coasting".2025 December 31, Zoe Wood, “Drinkers turn to low-alcohol beverages so they can 'coast' through season”, in The Guardian, page 3. From the entry coasting
• Before she had a chance to deal with her hangover, he was on the phone snake-oiling her into the first of what would be many ill-fated fraud cases.2013, Thomas Pynchon, Bleeding Edge, Vintage, published 2014, page 23. From the entry snake-oil
• He didn't mind Karla auditing courses — in fact, he encouraged it — but he did mind having to audit her auditings, particularly when he had a hangover.2010, Larry McMurtry, Duane's Depressed, page 22. From the entry auditing
• "Some are hangovers from the Western media, which is imprisoned by a Eurocentric and Tarzanic view of Africa, designed deliberately to keep down the continent," he said.2008 November 28, BBC Monitoring Africa, London. From the entry Tarzanic
• In a study of college students, 25% of students reported experiencing a hangover in the previous week and 29% reported losing school time for hangover recovery.2000 June 6, Jeffrey G. Wiese, Michael G. Shlipak, Warren S. Browner, “The Alcohol Hangover”, in Annals of Internal Medicine, volume 132…. From the entry veisalgia
• I got terrible hangovers from the cheap booze; and, one night, I almost got switchbladed when I put my arm around the wrong "lady of the night.1987, Ron Rearick, Doug Murren, Iceman, →ISBN, page 53. From the entry switchblade

Meaning of hangover

1. noun Negative effects, such as headache or nausea, caused by previous drunkenness due to (excessive) consumption of alcohol.
2. noun Similar negative effects caused by previous excessive consumption of another substance, such as a drug, coffee, sugar, etc.
3. noun An unpleasant relic left from prior events.

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Questions about hangover in a sentence

How do you use hangover in a sentence?

Hangover is used as a noun. For example: “I really enjoyed yesterday’s party, but now I have the biggest hangover – I’ll not be doing that again any time soon.”

What is a short sentence with hangover?

“There were, of course, the hangovers.”

What does hangover mean?

Hangover means negative effects, such as headache or nausea, caused by previous drunkenness due to (excessive) consumption of alcohol.