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Sentence examples for hangover from inspiring English sources

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hangover

noun

Illness caused by a previous bout of alcohol drinking.

  • I really enjoyed yesterday's party, but now I have the biggest hangover I'll not be doing that again any time soon.

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'hangover' is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use 'hangover' to refer to the physical and mental effects of having consumed too much alcohol the night before. Example: I woke up this morning with a raging hangover.

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There are few things more quintessentially "summer festival" than waking up in a tent with a hangover.

Now his job is to steer Orient away from the bottom four and resurrect a campaign that began with a play-off hangover, tasked by the club's new owner, Francesco Becchetti, with developing a side capable of promotion to the Championship.

Having had what he plainly regarded as a successful day delivering his autumn statement the other week, George Osborne sounded as though he had woken up with a hangover when he lost his cool on the Today programme and complained bitterly about the BBC's coverage.

As hard as it is to stop something that feels so good in the moment, it's ultimately easier than the hangover you'll feel when the truth comes out: and remember, it always does.

This only works when your hangover is of the blearily, wearily, giddily euphoric kind – when you actively want to leave the house, rather than lying poleaxed in bed, trying not to puke – but, in those circumstances, this relatively light, easily digested combination of emollient fat and amino-acid-releasing carbs and protein, is the perfect palliative.

Its eggs-act (sorry) origin is unclear, but one theory suggests that Lemuel Benedict – socialite, stockbroker, raffish-man-about-town – "invented" eggs Benedict in 1894, when, in an emergency attempt to stave off a hangover, he ordered a combination of toast, bacon, eggs and hollandaise at New York's Waldorf Hotel.

I'd been out with James Hunt the night before and I had a right hangover and it just went off.

Banda denies wrongdoing, claiming that this is yet another hangover from the Mutharika regime.

Although it seems like a separate thing – a hangover from the cold war or a product of an "accidental" revolution – the Ukraine dispute cannot be kept clear of the economic fault lines produced by the six-year crisis.

The well-known cartoonist Luz, who survived because he had a hangover and was late for the editorial meeting, has announced he will leave in September, saying every issue produced without his dead friends and colleagues is a "torture".

You've got away with that epic hangover again.

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