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US
/ˈsɪk/
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[ UK /sˈɪk/ ]
[ UK /sˈɪk/ ]
VERB
-
urge to attack someone
The owner sicked his dogs on the intruders
the shaman sics sorcerers on the evil spirits
ADVERB
- intentionally so written (used after a printed word or phrase)
How To Use sic In A Sentence
- Fertilization therefore results in an egg carrying a nucleus with contributions from both parents, and it was concluded that the cell nucleus must contain the physical basis of heredity.
- The main square is called “Rynek” (which basically means “central market place”), and in the middle there are two buildings: “Ratusz” or City Hall (compare with German “Rathaus”) and “Sukiennice”, a long one-level building not unlike a bazaar, filled with stores. Matthew Yglesias » Krakow
- They will also force schools to put more emphasis on teaching basic subjects.
- Gone was the prim nodus; instead her long hair was parted in the center and allowed to fall loose under a veil, in a deliberate echo of the statuary poses of classical goddesses. Caesars’ Wives
- The affinities between music and poetry have been familiar since antiquity, though they are largely ignored in the current intellectual climate.
- Do you really want ambient and drum'n'bass remixers stomping on your world music? Times, Sunday Times
- It's that last part Buckley is singing about, but he probably should have considered penning a few lines to himself regarding the "musician gone too soon" part.
- I had written quite a lot of orchestral music in my student days.
- My poor Lirriper was a handsome figure of a man, with a beaming eye and a voice as mellow as a musical instrument made of honey and steel, but he had ever been a free liver being in the commercial travelling line and travelling what he called a limekiln road — “a dry road, Emma my dear,” my poor Lirriper says to me, “where I have to lay the dust with one drink or another all day long and half the night, and it wears me Emma” — and this led to his running through a good deal and might have run through the turnpike too when that dreadful horse that never would stand still for a single instant set off, but for its being night and the gate shut and consequently took his wheel, my poor Lirriper and the gig smashed to atoms and never spoke afterwards. Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings
- A substantial element of the system is the set of physical exercises performed in pairs and again based on the idea of the power of co-operation.