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 John Keble
We sicken with the same maladies as the poets, and the singer lends us his pain.
From Intentions by Oscar Wilde
What light was left in the world, cut off from the source of life, seemed to sicken with a strange decay.
From Romance by Joseph Conrad
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 D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
