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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The cant that is talked now-a-days about 'work' is enough to make one sick.
From Remarks on the practice and policy of lending Bodleian printed books and manuscripts by Chandler, Henry W.
I cried, taking Jack’s arm; “it’s enough to make one sick the way they talk.”
From My Friend Smith A Story of School and City Life by Reed, Talbot Baines
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)