sick headache

Example Sentences

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Like Middleton, he had physical symptoms, which he described as “a sick headache, a heavy dull feeling, until it is as if a band of steel were around my head.”

From The New Yorker • Feb. 25, 2019

They never raise their voices to their children; they control by showing a "hurt" attitude, or by having a timely sick headache or fainting spell.

From Time Magazine Archive

To study a sick headache systematically the University recently advertised for a victim.

From Time Magazine Archive

Current medical opinion is that nearly everybody gets it, but usually in so mild a form that it seems to be only a sick headache, or a low fever, not unlike a cold.

From Time Magazine Archive

Granddaddy looked amused; Mother looked as if she had a sick headache but gamely held up her end of the conversation.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly