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
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
Tell me, did you not droop and sicken with your darling?
From Letters of Two Brides by Balzac, Honoré de
The remembrance that it was the night of the mail, and that, if no letter came, she must endure another week of waiting, made her heart sicken with impatient longing.
From Christie Redfern's Troubles by Lintott, Edward Barnard
We sicken with the same maladies as the poets, and the singer lends us his pain.
From Intentions by Wilde, Oscar
