sickly
Example Sentences
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He did his best to amputate above the sickly parts in the hope of saving the patient’s life.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 6, 2026
Smith was a sickly child, contracting bronchial pneumonia, tuberculosis, German measles, mumps and chicken pox which kept her in "periods of lengthy bed rest".
From BBC • Nov. 4, 2025
Even before ICE got him, he had been sickly.
From Slate • Oct. 27, 2025
Esteemed horror veteran Mike Flanagan is an executive producer and you can sense Stuckmann grabbing aimlessly in the last third for the kind of sickly visual elegance that is Flanagan’s deliberative style.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 23, 2025
At once, a sickly sweet aroma tanged the air.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
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