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How to use indigestion in a sentence

14 example sentences · noun

Indigestion means a condition of heartburn, nausea, or other stomach-related pain, sometimes caused by eating too quickly. Example: “Was that a flutter from my soon-to-be baby or a flutter of indigestion? I couldn't tell!”

Examples of indigestion by meaning

nounA condition of heartburn, nausea, or other stomach-related pain, sometimes caused by eating too quickly.

  • If you also knew how to combine foods—that is, what foods eaten together “set well,” you need never have indigestion, constipation or any of the headachy, stomachachy ills they lead to.1917 February 12, “If You Knew What Foods?” (advertisement), in The Independent, volume 59, number 3558, New York: Independent Corporation...

More sentences with indigestion

  • Was that a flutter from my soon-to-be baby or a flutter of indigestion? I couldn't tell!From the entry flutter
  • His indigestion was self-induced. If he didn't eat so much it wouldn't hurt.From the entry self-induced
  • I can't get on with prunes. They give me indigestion.From the entry get on
  • He divides dyspepsias into accidental, temporary (indigestions) and habitual.From the entry dyspepsia
  • Don loved the minihamburgers even though they gave him horrible indigestion.2007, Fern Michaels, Free Fall, page 312. From the entry minihamburger
  • Small bits of ice, slightly salted or lemonized, will stop dizziness, headaches and indigestion.1918 January, Mazdaznan, volume 17, page 228. From the entry lemonize
  • It bubbled inside, and it sounded like a hundred simultaneous cases of indigestion which echoed off the rock around it.2023 October 12, HarryBlank, “Fire in the Hole”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 22 May 2024. From the entry metric
  • All these men have indigestion at times.1976 [1946], Anya Seton, The Turquoise, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN, page 262. From the entry teatable
  • Introspectability cannot be the mark of the mental because one can introspect physical states, like indigestion or other internal physical events in the body.2007, UMI, Eliminative Materialism and the Distinction Between Common Sense and Science, →ISBN. From the entry introspectability
  • Don't go fobbing it off as indigestion, my girl—it's your internal barometer warning you that you're about to make a dingo's breakfast out of your life.'2013, Anna Romer, Thornwood House. From the entry dingo's breakfast
  • With only a head full of figures and a pocket full of indigestion tablets, a "whiteback" CPA emerges from the Rio Grande hoping for a better life in Mexico.1979, Tony Hendra, Christopher Cerf, Peter Elbling ·, The 80s: A Look Back at the Tumultuous Decade, 1980-1989, page 159. From the entry whiteback
  • Chorera infantum may begin as an attack of acute indigestion, or, what is more frequently the case, suddenly, with severe vomiting and copious dejections, high fever and rapid prostration.1921, Charles Signmund Raue, Diseases of Children - Homeopathic Treatment, 2nd edition, B. Jain Publishers, published 2000, →ISBN, Chapter…. From the entry dejection
  • I sat at dinner, but satisfied myself with nibbling bread crusts, and witnessing the forlorn and perilous efforts of my friends to walk the line between starvation and acute indigestion.1914, Julian Hawthorne, chapter 13, in The Subterranean Brotherhood. From the entry walk the line

Meaning of indigestion

  1. noun A condition of heartburn, nausea, or other stomach-related pain, sometimes caused by eating too quickly.

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Questions about indigestion in a sentence

How do you use indigestion in a sentence?
Indigestion is used as a noun. For example: “Was that a flutter from my soon-to-be baby or a flutter of indigestion? I couldn't tell!”
What is a short sentence with indigestion?
“All these men have indigestion at times.”
What does indigestion mean?
Indigestion means a condition of heartburn, nausea, or other stomach-related pain, sometimes caused by eating too quickly.

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