How to Use postprandial in a Sentence

postprandial

adjective

• Gone are the napkins tortured into swans and the postprandial triage that shunted women to the drawing room while men dealt business.
  — Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2018
• Patterson parked just off I-5, which bisects the lagoon, and, with semis rumbling in the background, prepared to take a postprandial nap.
  — Nicola Twilley, The New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2020
• Gender imbalance in the kitchen is as French as foie gras and as traditional as a postprandial coffee.
  — Assia Labbas, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2018
• We were treated to several minutes of this special performance before the dude's postprandial Uber whisked him away into the buzzing twilight of west Wrigleyville.
  — Mike Sula, Chicago Reader, 22 June 2017
• But during some postprandial moments, trusting a professional with dog walking duty and crashing on a couch sounds a lot nicer.
  — Sam Dangremond, Town & Country, 20 Nov. 2015
• Zimmer brings us to pythons in a lab that remain in a minimal metabolic state until they are fed, and then ramp up the activity in their tissues; the change from the resting state to their postprandial state has no parallel in the vertebrate world.
  — New York Times, 24 Mar. 2021
• The woman also reportedly suffered from postprandial chest pain, or chest pain after meals.
  — Maggie O'Neill, Health.com, 29 Apr. 2020
• At a postprandial gathering with friends, talk turns to the crucial reconnection with nature after months trapped within four walls rarely unplugged from screens and technology.
  — Rebecca Ann Hughes, Forbes, 28 June 2021
• A year later, blood samples were collected from the patients for analysis of fasting and postprandial levels of ghrelin, leptin, peptide YY, amylin and other hormones.
  — Daniel Engber, Scientific American, 13 Jan. 2020
• What follows is a humble sample of my recent food adventures in three areas, plus a handful of suggestions for pre- and postprandial activities.
  — Seth Kugel, New York Times, 1 July 2019
• As postprandial drinks of obstbrande, an apple/pear schnapps particular to the region, were poured, chitchat about music, politics and the Fuchs family's hunting and foraging adventures formed the soundtrack.
  — Liza Weisstuch, chicagotribune.com, 25 Oct. 2019
• As postprandial drinks of obstbrande, an apple/pear schnapps particular to the region, were poured, chitchat about music, politics and the Fuchs family’s hunting and foraging adventures formed the soundtrack.
  — Liza Weisstuch, Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2019
• Biologists have actually been able to measure this physiological dip in our alertness—what science calls a postprandial dip—through changes in our metabolic system, as well as adjustments in our brain waves, and in our cognitive reaction times.
  — Claire Maldarelli, Popular Science, 11 Apr. 2017

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