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

The sick headache, that nuisance in households one of whose members suffers therefrom, last week received close study at the University of Illinois College of Medicine.

From Time Magazine Archive

Nine out of ten cases inherit their sick headache.

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

When she reached the narrow hallway she was reminded that her grandmother was home with a sick headache.

From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston