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

The remembrance that it was the night of the mail, and that, if no letter came, she must endure another week of waiting, made her heart sicken with impatient longing.

From Christie Redfern's Troubles by Lintott, Edward Barnard

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)

"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)

Then she did not pine away, nor sicken with despair, being of a great courage, strong to bear evil and misfortune, and not made of the stuff that gives way under cruel deception and disappointment.

From My Little Lady by Poynter, Eleanor Frances