sickened
Example Sentences
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"They will be sickened and embarrassed to have a parent be so callous and vindictive."
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
“They will be sickened and embarrassed to have a parent be so callous and vindictive.”
From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026
Over the past month, the restaurant industry overall has also struggled with a cyclcospora outbreak that has sickened thousands of people in the U.S. and has been linked to two deaths.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 4, 2026
There is no evidence that his, or any of the nation’s homegrown lettuce, was infected with the parasite behind an illness outbreak that has sickened thousands of people so far.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
I cried inwardly, as the night lingered and lingered—as my bleeding patient drooped, moaned, sickened: and neither day nor aid arrived.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
