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
What light was left in the world, cut off from the source of life, seemed to sicken with a strange decay.
From Romance by Conrad, Joseph
We sicken with the same maladies as the poets, and the singer lends us his pain.
From Intentions by Wilde, Oscar
The Mungana's eyes seemed to sink into his head, and his face to sicken with terror.
From A Yellow God: an Idol of Africa by Haggard, Henry Rider
Tell me, did you not droop and sicken with your darling?
From Letters of Two Brides by Balzac, Honoré de
