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sicken with

VERB
take
Synonyms
Antonyms
WEAK


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

Everything he suggested to himself made him sicken with weariness or distaste: the seaside, a foreign land, a fresh life that he had often dreamed of, farming in Canada.

From The Trespasser by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)

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

Then she did not pine away, nor sicken with despair, being of a great courage, strong to bear evil and misfortune, and not made of the stuff that gives way under cruel deception and disappointment.

From My Little Lady by Poynter, Eleanor Frances

We in dark dreams are tossing to and fro,    Pine with regret, or sicken with despair, The while she bathes us in her own chaste glow,    And with our memory wings her own fond prayer.

From The Christian Year by Keble, John




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