sick
Example Sentences
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In an email to The Times, Newsom spokesperson Tara Gallegos said the governor had a strong record of fighting for workers’ rights, including raising the minimum wage and expanding sick leave and other worker protections.
From Los Angeles Times
However, this travel sick team have only won two away games in the top flight this season.
From BBC
An arborist knows when a tree is hurt, sick or ripe to cause trouble.
While the boy went up and down the empty hallways, cleaning banisters with bleach water, Etta came by the kitchen to report that Arnold Myerson had gotten sick, resetting the quarantine clock.
From Literature
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Baby Joe with his plump cheeks, whose refuge I’d been when others had no time for him, who had tended faithfully to me when I was sick, might even have saved my life!
From Literature
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