make one sick
Example Sentences
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"To act as a physician," he writes, "the priest must make one sick!"
From The Guardian ● Feb. 1, 2013
He conveys what he learns as something that a middle-aged man should already know: months of wandering in a hard place make one sick, lonely, itchy and tired.
From Time Magazine Archive
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A great many people applied for medicine, and some of the maladies, specially when they affect children, make one sick at heart.
From Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)
The painting of your house may, from the damp, have given you cold-I don't conceive that paint can affect one otherwise, if it does not make one sick, as it does me of all things.
From The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 by Walpole, Horace
I shall be glad when the doors are closed, I can tell you, for these people are enough to make one sick.
From A Girl of the Commune by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)