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

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

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

"My God! a thrill of horror creeps through all my veins, and if I only look at this monster, I have a feeling as though I should sicken with loathing!"

From Marie Antoinette and Her Son by Mühlbach, L. (Luise)

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