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"How are we going to be at war with Canada? They're going to take their two set submarines from the Edmonton Mall and sic them on us?"
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
They set little traps for Hunham’s arrogance and sic their daddies on the administrators, who then bear down on him.
From New York Times ● Oct. 26, 2023
It won’t matter that Snyder tried to sic a private investigator on the commissioner.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 9, 2022
If it didn’t get its $51,000, the company warned, it would sic debt collectors on the family.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2019
“Whatever I say, one or the other of you is going to sic the dog on me. You’ve got me in the middle.”
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
Less rote, but also well within genre expectations, is the title story, narrated by the youngest member of a family that makes cursed objects and sics one of them on a greedy villain.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2022
But if I keep on tacklin' all the odd jobs she sics me on to, I'll be able to qualify pretty soon as a boss carpenter, a master plumber, and an expert electrician.
From The House of Torchy by Arthur William Brown
One taste she does give is how, in order to win the vote of Indiana Rep. Joe Donnelly, she sicced a former president of the University of Notre Dame on his case.
From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2024
This put him in conflict with Shaw, who had once overseen the hospital, and who sicced health inspectors on Clinton’s cafeterias.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2023
Though we see Joanna Strange, the company’s first whistleblower, her appearance is brief — and the documentary doesn’t mention that WeWork sued her, and even sicced the FBI on her.
From The Verge ● Apr. 2, 2021
Another company, alarmed at my front-page story about the impending failure of a multibillion-dollar merger, spammed me with off-the-record calls from executives and sicced around 50 investors on me.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 28, 2017
“I wanted to be Lissa’s friend, but she was afraid of me. She sicced the dog on me. Why was she scared? What’s wrong with me, Georgie?”
From "The Old Willis Place" by Mary Downing Hahn
Taylor Fresh had just last month voluntarily recalled imported contaminated lettuce from a grower in Central Mexico that was linked to a cyclosporiasis outbreak that affected 15 states and sicked tens of thousands of people.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
At least 14 sea lions were reported sicked off the coast of Malibu due to toxins created by harmful algal blooms, according to the California Wildlife Center.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2025
Lifespan President and CEO Timothy Babineau said officials determined the restrictions are the “most prudent thing to do” in light of the new coronavirus that’s sicked tens of thousands globally.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 9, 2020
Nor did General Summerall permit himself to be "sicked" into a defiant frame of mind as he journeyed eastward.
From Time Magazine Archive
I don’t doubt a minute but he let thet bull out and sicked him on me.”
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
Perhaps Cook can buy Ternus time by siccing Apple’s lawyers on a top AI rival.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
Now researchers are siccing the technology on viruses.
From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2022
No longer would each try to gain an edge by siccing governments and agencies on the other.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 5, 2021
The magazine’s official account tweeted an actually-quite-flattering caricature of Cliffe, with the message that she’d been put on something called #TheNewPuritansList for being “our favorite Mean Mommie” and siccing “mobs” on people.
From Slate ● Dec. 14, 2018
All the same, he disliked going to cops like Bill Koontz for help or advice because that usually meant he wound up siccing them on his own people.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
That might not stop the labels from sicking their lawyers on the site now that its popularity is growing.
From Forbes ● Jun. 21, 2011
Here are the expanding tire companies sicking the faithful Hoover on the British lion just when they are about to inflate prices.
From Time Magazine Archive
She had a sicking baby of her own.
From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 2 by Work Projects Administration
He—he was all for detaining me right away, Renie; sending for pa, and—and sicking the law right on his—his own sister's son.
From Every Soul Hath Its Song by Fannie Hurst
On one occasion the old man was down on his knees trying to make the small dog jump at him, while the boy kept sicking him on.
From Jack Winters' Baseball Team Or, The Rivals of the Diamond by Mark Overton
