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
"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 L. (Luise) Mühlbach
We in dark dreams are tossing to and fro, Pine with regret, or sicken with despair, The while she bathes us in her own chaste glow, And with our memory wings her own fond prayer.
From The Christian Year by John Keble
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
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
