sickening

Example Sentences

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Prime Minister Keir Starmer called the incident "horrific" and "sickening" in a post on X.

From Barron's • Jun. 9, 2026

There is something profoundly sickening in the way this war with Iran is being discussed.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026

"The callous way in which you walked away from the mayhem was sickening to watch. You blamed a phantom driver."

From BBC • Mar. 13, 2026

“The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting,” the statement said.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 28, 2026

Presently I stood within that clean, bright kitchen—on the very hearth—trembling, sickening; conscious of an aspect in the last degree ghastly, wild, and weather-beaten.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë