Synonyms for ingestion
in·ges·tion

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1. consumption, ingestion, intake, uptakenoun

   the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating)

   Synonyms:
   phthisis, use, expenditure, use of goods and services, uptake, inhalation, pulmonary tuberculosis, using up, wasting disease, breathing in, consumption, aspiration, economic consumption, inlet, intake, usance, inspiration, white plague

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1. List of paraphrases for "ingestion":

   intake, ingesting, ingest, feeding, collection

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How to use ingestion in a sentence?

1. Matthias Egger:

   The problem is getting bigger and bigger by the minute, we see turtles that are entangled in ghost fishing nets. Sometimes it’s even just turtle carcasses. We see ingestion of plastic fragments. Then there’s also the pollutants – chemicals.

2. Leonardo Trasande:

   Insofar as old homes have not been evaluated or remediated, levels of lead in children’s blood are likely to be higher due to water ingestion, dust inhalation and contact with soil.

3. El Sahly:

   We do not expect that occasional or moderate amount of alcohol ingestion to affect the response to the vaccine, and we are not requesting from subjects or the general public to abstain from alcohol around vaccination time.

4. Ashok Ghosh:

   It is a slow poison. Symptoms appear after continuous ingestion over five to 12 years.

5. Colleen Scott:

   What we're seeing is they are getting it from ingestion of unpasteurized milk products.