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
We sicken with the same maladies as the poets, and the singer lends us his pain.
From Intentions by Wilde, Oscar
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 Keble, John
The remembrance that it was the night of the mail, and that, if no letter came, she must endure another week of waiting, made her heart sicken with impatient longing.
From Christie Redfern's Troubles by Lintott, Edward Barnard
Tell me, did you not droop and sicken with your darling?
From Letters of Two Brides by Balzac, Honoré de
