Example Sentences

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Mr. Palka wrote Mr. Metrose shortly after: “I’m so sorry to hear this news Ian. Sickens me. We worked so hard to try to avoid this day. I am so completely sad.”

From New York Times • Nov. 4, 2022

She has loved and been loved so often In her long, immortal years, That she tires of the worn-out rapture, Sickens of hopes and fears.

From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2 by Stevenson, Burton Egbert

No howling sad Sickens our fearful ewes; and we have had Great bounty from Endymion our lord.

From Endymion A Poetic Romance by Keats, John

The sun is up already; and my heart Sickens and sinks within me when I think How many tragedies will be enacted Before his setting.

From The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

For that this grief hath no comfort,91 Sickens my heart upon me.

From Jeremiah : Being The Baird Lecture for 1922 by Smith, George Adam, Sir