How to Use hangover in a Sentence

hangover

noun
  • She woke up with a hangover.
  • The men, all Democrats, said the word is an offensive hangover...
    Kate King, WSJ, 10 July 2020
  • There are even hangover infusions for the day after a party.
    Lucy Binder, Glamour, 29 Oct. 2024
  • In spite of having a full-body hangover, those first few days lying in bed with my baby were a magical, otherworldly time.
    Jennifer Block, Longreads, 10 Mar. 2020
  • Kofi was riding a combo of marijuana and Adderall that day, trying to soothe his hangover from the night before.
    Jon Blau, The Indianapolis Star, 14 June 2020
  • The agency says shipments have now dipped below normal levels -- perhaps a hangover from consumers stocking up in mid March.
    oregonlive, 14 Apr. 2020
  • The whole thing’s like a bad hangover -- a fever dream of a year -- and Dodd just hopes his classmates don’t share his experience when the campus again swells with students.
    Michael Casagrande | McAsagrande@al.com, al, 20 Aug. 2020
  • There is a sense of inevitability to the way everyone speaks about touts — as if their deaths were no more unavoidable than waking up with a hangover after drinking too much.
    Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 14 Nov. 2024
  • The vaccine eventually came, and the masks and partitions and oceans of sanitizer faded slowly like a bad hangover.
    Matt Goulding, The Atlantic, 19 June 2020
  • Welcome Bags Many couples provide goody bags with essentials — bottles of water, snacks, mini-hangover kits — for out-of-town guests.
    Daniel Bortz, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2020
  • In contrast to most available sleep medications, melatonin seems not to be habit-forming and typically produces no hangover effects.
    Anna Goldfarb, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2020
  • English research scientist Stewart Adams was faced with the consequences of his actions: a serious hangover.
    David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 June 2020
  • The contrast between the two books, though, couldn’t be starker—because this time, we’re faced with a mother whose day is more likely to begin with a blinding hangover, a spot of dry heaving, and an urgent quest for any drink still lying around.
    James Walton, The New York Review of Books, 3 Aug. 2020
  • In fact, the bash is most likely over, and the hangover’s ahead.
    Shawn Tully, Fortune, 4 July 2023
  • Maybe for some of us, too much so, and now the hangover has us in its grip.
    Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Mar. 2022
  • The Nuggets now have the lead again, and there was no Game 2 hangover on Wednesday.
    Tim Reynolds, ajc, 8 June 2023
  • Of course, the best way to avoid a hangover is to abstain from drinking.
    Stacey Lastoe, CNN, 31 Dec. 2022
  • All of which can help with the hallmarks of a hangover, from the thudding headache to the fatigue.
    Hannah Coates, Vogue, 22 Dec. 2023
  • Their business might even be in for a bit of a hangover.
    Justin Lahart, WSJ, 22 Mar. 2021
  • The hangover of what-ifs from the Finals lingered for a few weeks.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 6 July 2022
  • But the hangover from the shutdown is proving tough to shift.
    Paula Ramon, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2024
  • Cash’s anger didn’t last much longer than a hangover, though.
    Jim Beaugez, Rolling Stone, 14 May 2021
  • The danger is the hangover the Rams have while wearing their ring.
    Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 25 Feb. 2023
  • But the bar is also the birthplace of the world's favorite hangover cure.
    Cailey Rizzo, Travel + Leisure, 20 Dec. 2021
  • Topo Chico can also be used to make soups, pie crusts and a hangover cure.
    Abigail Rosenthal, Chron, 8 Feb. 2021
  • The food, billed as Tex-Mex, is a heavy hangover antidote.
    Sophia Solano, Washington Post, 1 June 2023
  • But the Rams could be flirting with a Super Bowl hangover.
    Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2022
  • In the meantime, enjoy the rally—and watch out for the inevitable hangover.
    David Z. Morris, Fortune, 18 Nov. 2020
  • If a place could look like a hangover, Miami Beach would hit the mark.
    Olivia McAuley, Rolling Stone, 25 Mar. 2021
  • Ravee Chen is on a mission to solve a problem many of us know too well—hangovers.
    Kody Boye, USA TODAY, 7 Aug. 2024

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