sickly looking
Example Sentences
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He pulls up one of the more sickly looking plants and, where you should see peanuts dangling from the root, there's nothing.
From BBC • Jul. 8, 2022
Her acrylic portraits of young Eleanor Roosevelt and “poor Mary Todd Lincoln,” of “real hot goth look” Franklin Pierce and a sickly looking William Henry Harrison, reveal another aspect of her wry visual eye.
From Washington Post • Apr. 12, 2022
That pearly palette is among the most welcome signs that winter is upon us, with snow and colder air hopefully banishing painful memories of heat domes and sickly looking images of a barren Mount Rainier.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 10, 2021
She takes no interest at all in sickly looking Mary, who in turns thinks of her not as a mother but as “Mem Sahib,” just like the servants do.
From Slate • Aug. 7, 2020
Abby practically skipped toward that sickly looking pond.
From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry
