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
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 Henry Rider Haggard
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
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
Tell me, did you not droop and sicken with your darling?
From Letters of Two Brides by Honoré de Balzac
