airsick

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for airsick
Adjective
  • Danson experimented with hallucinogens and got extremely seasick.
    Liza Esquibias, People.com, 20 May 2025
  • She’s returned with a little something for everyone: demonic house music, introspective soft rock, catchy post-punk, seasick sophisti-pop.
    Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 22 May 2024
Adjective
  • The 23-year-old college student died on April 23 in Assisi, Italy, minutes after becoming nauseous while dining with friends, The Boston Globe reported in a new interview with her father published on Wednesday, May 7.
    Angel Saunders, People.com, 9 May 2025
  • An amusement park ride that provides thrills, but can leave you nauseous.
    Troy Renck, Denver Post, 7 May 2025
Adjective
  • To reach the house, visitors drive up the dark, narrow mountain road hemmed in on both sides by foliage, before arriving, slightly carsick, slightly confused, at the low-slung residence with a modest roofline.
    Kristina Linnea Garcia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Mar. 2024
  • While carpooling to school, he gets stuck in the middle seat and feels carsick.
    Peter C. Baker, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2023
Adjective
  • Then there’s carmine, which makes some consumers queasy because the reddish pigment comes from cochineal insects.
    Tribune News Service, Twin Cities, 19 May 2025
  • Patrick Cook found in Herod the strain of queasy lyricism that Siegel missed at the Met.
    Alex Ross, New Yorker, 19 May 2025
Adjective
  • The tone shifts, though, becoming myopic and even a little queasy once the film leaves high school behind and heads deeper into the forest, literally and figuratively, a shift that mimics the swoony, woozy, consumptive rush of first love — just what Hardwicke intended to capture.
    Bruce Handy, Vulture, 20 May 2025
  • That Jia could make anything out of that flotsam and jetsam is astonishing, but his ability to not only recreate those time frames but craft all of it into a woozy, free-floating memory piece is miraculous.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 9 May 2025
Adjective
  • The resulting scene of torture is, for my money, way worse than most anything we're exposed to in the games—and these are games that are not exactly squeamish about showing scenes of torture and extreme violence!
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 5 May 2025
  • His Crimes of the Future, a distinctly anatomical vision of the world to (hopefully not) come, was just a little too gross for some of the more squeamish attendees of the Cannes Film Festival.
    A.A. Dowd, Vulture, 28 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Signs of dehydration, including: dry mouth and throat, infrequent peeing and feeling dizzy when standing up.
    Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 23 May 2025
  • Spinning is what dizzy people do, and Lopez is not that.
    Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 12 May 2025
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“Airsick.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/airsick. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.

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