sick at heart

Example Sentences

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They seek to comfort her, sick at heart as she is, by diverting the blame from her who was forced to the doer of the wrong.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

I’m sick at heart every day, and blaming myself for raising an otherwise strong woman who is codependent on someone who loves her but can never give her meaningful support.

From Slate • Feb. 2, 2021

"I am sick at heart at what we have done," he said.

From Salon • Aug. 2, 2019

But they also would change our country in ways that should make us sick at heart.

From Washington Post • Feb. 18, 2016

Behind my back, at the world’s end, my pale slightly glowing fat mother sleeps on, old, sick at heart, in our dingy underground room.

From "Grendel" by John Gardner