How to Use undigested in a Sentence

undigested

adjective
  • The python young are still packed full of undigested egg yolk when they are born.
    Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 15 Mar. 2018
  • Like a fan overindulging with beer, the snowy owl coughed up the undigested remnants of its meals.
    Katie Vogel, Cincinnati.com, 11 Jan. 2018
  • This young lion had a gob of undigested goat meat and black goat hair inside it.
    sacbee, 3 Nov. 2017
  • There are people just out there searching for 100-year-old wads of undigested squid beaks.
    Kira Bindrim, Quartz, 23 May 2022
  • The only thing in food that makes it to your colon undigested and intact is dietary fibre (think corn).
    Ruben Meerman and Andrew Brown, CNN, 26 Mar. 2018
  • The combination of gas produced by bacteria that try to break it down and undigested food can lead to a stinky smell.
    Sabrina Talbert, Women's Health, 31 Jan. 2023
  • Pellets contain the undigested parts of food birds have eaten -- for instance, bones or teeth.
    Ryan Prior, CNN, 23 Oct. 2019
  • These undigested foods suck water into the GI tract, and a result is often a watery mess.
    New York Times, 14 Apr. 2022
  • But to me, my brain and body felt more like a tree: the undigested traumatic experiences in my mind had roots that stretched into my chest and limbs.
    Leah Vincent, The Cut, 27 Sep. 2017
  • That’s because whole flaxseed is likely to pass through your intestines undigested.
    Cynthia Sass, Mph, Health.com, 22 Oct. 2019
  • This is because vitamins can attach to undigested fat in your stool, causing it to stink2.
    Jessica Toscano, SELF, 8 July 2022
  • The three characteristics of the celiac traid are failure to thrive, the passage of large, undigested stools, and an enlarged abdomen.
    Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 25 Nov. 2021
  • Prebiotics are types of carbohydrates that make their way to your colon undigested, where your gut microbes feast on them.
    Jessica Migala, Women's Health, 24 July 2023
  • Why is my dog throwing up undigested food hours after eating?
    Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 19 Oct. 2022
  • At 2 hours and 30 minutes, the play can sometimes seem indulgent; parts of the story feel undigested and perhaps indigestible.
    New York Times, 22 June 2022
  • The infant’s gut had stopped functioning, clogging his feeding tube with undigested food.
    Bryant Furlow, ProPublica, 30 Mar. 2021
  • Some predatory birds such as owls take an additional step and spit back up pellets of undigested bone, feathers, and hair.
    Michael Greshko, National Geographic, 11 July 2019
  • According to Shaoxing News, a teen amassed about 100 undigested bubble tea balls inside of her stomach.
    Jasmine Gomez, Seventeen, 12 June 2019
  • Feces are a smelly mixture of water, undigested food, dead and living bacteria, and other cells and substances.
    Wired, 9 July 2022
  • Many people forget that undigested food can cause weight to increase, according to Nelson.
    Suzie Glassman, Health.com, 11 Feb. 2022
  • The star’s six arms unfold inside the stomach and steadily release ingredients over an extended period; the star stays in the stomach until the arms break off and leave the body like undigested food.
    Jonathan Saltzman, BostonGlobe.com, 9 July 2019
  • Then, those samples were cleared of all the stuff that’s expected to be there, like proteins and undigested plant matter, leaving the remainder to be tested for 10 different kinds of microplastic.
    Cathleen O'Grady, Ars Technica, 24 Oct. 2018
  • At worst, what follows is an undigested lesson plan for the whole Hunger Games idea, clashing exposition with familiar story beats.
    Darren Franich, EW.com, 19 May 2020
  • In a few of the Hirondellea, the researchers found undigested particles of organic carbon.
    Carl Zimmer, The Atlantic, 20 Mar. 2020
  • Owl pellets, or undigested masses of bones and fur regurgitated by owls, are a popular dissection project for fifth graders, and Gilliam gets a large shipment each year.
    Erin Richards, USA TODAY, 4 May 2020
  • After a patient swallows the ordinary-looking capsule, the star’s six arms unfold inside the stomach and steadily release ingredients for a week; then the arms break off and leave the body like undigested food.
    Jonathan Saltzman, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Jan. 2020
  • People with this condition spit up undigested or partially digested food into their mouths after most meals, then chew or spit it out.
    Karen Pallarito, Health, 27 July 2023
  • Bezoar stones are solid masses of undigested food or fibers found in the stomach of animals—just the thing, people (erroneously) thought, to drop into a drink to neutralize the effects of any poison.
    Meg Neal, Popular Mechanics, 4 Oct. 2020
  • In a worrying sign for Antarctic wildlife, Borowicz has started finding bits of plastic in bird boluses, lumps of undigested food that birds regurgitate as part of the feeding process.
    Time, 9 Apr. 2020
  • Those spheres were undigested bubble tea pearls, her doctors supposedly said.
    Samantha Lauriello, Health.com, 13 June 2019

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