sicken with
Example Sentences
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“Exposure to a particle of darkness means one does not sicken with it.”
From Washington Post • Mar. 4, 2021
We sicken with the same maladies as the poets, and the singer lends us his pain.
From Intentions by Wilde, Oscar
What light was left in the world, cut off from the source of life, seemed to sicken with a strange decay.
From Romance by Conrad, Joseph
"My God! a thrill of horror creeps through all my veins, and if I only look at this monster, I have a feeling as though I should sicken with loathing!"
From Marie Antoinette and Her Son by Mühlbach, L. (Luise)
Everything he suggested to himself made him sicken with weariness or distaste: the seaside, a foreign land, a fresh life that he had often dreamed of, farming in Canada.
From The Trespasser by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)
