make one sick
Example Sentences
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"To act as a physician," he writes, "the priest must make one sick!"
From The Guardian • Feb. 1, 2013
He conveys what he learns as something that a middle-aged man should already know: months of wandering in a hard place make one sick, lonely, itchy and tired.
From Time Magazine Archive
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In the end nothing fit to eat was served; filthy porridge with lumps in it and salt fish reheated not for the first time, enough to make one sick.
From Erasmus and the Age of Reformation by Huizinga, Johan
"It's enough to make one sick to sit at the table with you," answered the clerk.
From The Young Explorer by Alger, Horatio
If anything could make one sick of "the next age," it would be the shabby treatment which the Avonian has received.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 15, January, 1859 by Various
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