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 sicken with the same maladies as the poets, and the singer lends us his pain. 

From Intentions by Wilde, Oscar

"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)

What light was left in the world, cut off from the source of life, seemed to sicken with a strange decay.

From Romance by Conrad, Joseph

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