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Example sentences for "ingest"

Lexicographically close words:
ingenuity; ingenuous; ingenuously; ingenuousness; inges; ingested; ingestion; ingine; ingle; inglenook
  1. During digestion, the phagocytes prowl into the intestine, and ingest and devour bacteria, that might otherwise give rise to disease.

  2. The skink of course lacks the ophidian capacity to ingest relatively enormous objects.

  3. It was almost more praise than I could ingest in three days.

  4. Attentively listening, many ingest these tales of fortune and assume that their earthly reward is forthcoming.

  5. While some people would be ready to speak candidly after a brief time, others need to ingest the situation gradually and should not be pressed into heavy conversation directly following a shock.

  6. It is beneficial for the uncertain individual to ingest each successive suggestion, and choose which is his desired path toward improvement.

  7. Fowls killed by causing them to ingest venom, 180.

  8. Others, including Sir Joseph Fayrer, Richards, and Weir Mitchell, have killed pigeons and fowls by making them ingest venom of Vipera russellii, or Crotalus.

  9. It is idiotic to believe that people must ingest the same proportion of salt as is contained in the blood.

  10. Wild animals such as squirrels, raccoons, and monkeys do not ingest so much salt, but they maintain themselves in perfect health.

  11. If you suddenly reduce the amount of salt you ingest you will experience a kind of "cold turkey" in which you feel tired, but this is just because the body is used to a lot of salt.

  12. By infecting man or animals who ingest it.

  13. Admitting that albumin plays in alimentary diet only the plastic part of reconstruction of used-up corporal matter, it might be advantageous to ingest but one albumin the composition of which is very similar to our own.

  14. They are able to migrate readily from place to place and to ingest small bodies, as bacteria.

  15. The recent studies of Wright and Douglas, upon the contrary, indicate that the leukocytes are impotent in themselves, and can ingest bacteria only in the presence of certain substances which exist in the blood-plasma.


  16. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ingest" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    absorb; assimilate; consult; consume; deplete; devour; digest; dispatch; down; drain; drink; eat; engulf; erode; exhaust; expend; finish; gobble; gulp; imbibe; impoverish; ingest; meal; percolate; spend; squander; surround; swallow; swill; take