ingested; ingesting; ingests
: to take in for or as if for digestion
Examples of ingest in a Sentence
The drug is more easily ingested in pill form.
claims that the average person ingests considerably more calories than is necessary or desirable
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Jeff Spry, Space.com, 12 Mar. 2025
His team’s working hypothesis is that microplastics ingested into the hollow part of the gut could act like a dead weight in the mucosal layer.
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The students who ingested the THC gummies were between the ages of 13 and 14 years old, NBC New York reported.
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Twelve children at a Long Island middle school were sickened Monday morning after ingesting marijuana gummies distributed by a student, the school said.
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Jeff Spry, Space.com, 12 Mar. 2025
His team’s working hypothesis is that microplastics ingested into the hollow part of the gut could act like a dead weight in the mucosal layer.
—Claire Bugos, Verywell Health, 7 Mar. 2025
The students who ingested the THC gummies were between the ages of 13 and 14 years old, NBC New York reported.
—Angel Saunders, People.com, 4 Mar. 2025
Twelve children at a Long Island middle school were sickened Monday morning after ingesting marijuana gummies distributed by a student, the school said.
—Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 3 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for ingest
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“Ingest.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ingest. Accessed 24 Mar. 2025.
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in-ˈjest 
: to take in for or as if for digestion
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