How To Use Sicken In A Sentence

I compassionated him, and sometimes felt a wish to console him; but when I looked upon him, when I saw the filthy mass that moved and talked, my heart sickened, and my feelings were altered to those of horror and hatred. Chapter 17
Now the inclusion of this is a real sickener. Times, Sunday Times
One of his idiosyncrasies was a faith in coffee as a panacea; and I heard that while sickening he deluged himself with that beverage, to what profit let physicians say. From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life
There was a sickening lurch; immediate survival seemed more crucial than a putative riot.
There was a sickening lurch as my chute opened and my harness tightened round me so that I could hardly breathe.

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He finally sickened of the endless round of parties and idle conversation.
Taboula, a parsley, tomato, onion and burghul - or cracked wheat - salad was drenched in the most sickening oil.
If this arrangement is disturbed, the body sickens; if it is sufficiently upset, the body dies.
The very fact that people are willing to accept this in their daily lives kind of sickens me.
He hit the floor with a sickening thud.
The sickening stench of blood hit him like a tidal wave.
They sicken of the calm, who knew the storm.
The air was pervaded by a sickening sweet smell of burnt meat and charred wood.
Drawing a blank would be a sickener so ... one winner. Times, Sunday Times
Horrified. Sickened. I love life above everything, so when an event of this magnitude occurs, you can bet I am heartsore over the lives lost because they are covered in oil.
One parent said: 'It was absolutely sickening. The Sun
Only Mother Shipton - once the strongest of the party - seemed to sicken and fade.
When a family loses someone close, all they have is the grave, it's their only comfort and it's a sickening thought that people out there are ruining graves.
This weekend in sickening episode of political cynicism Livingstone cheerleaders dragged out the corpse of Stephen Lawrence onto the stage courtesy of his duped mother. Black Issues or White Guilt
Rewinding some paragraphs post-appreciation, one can almost believe Kinsella's one-sheet sickener.
The realisation that I had unconsciously begun to mistrust people on the basis of their skin colour sickened me.
The entire nation was sickened by his murder. The Sun
It did eventually sink into a murky mire of sickening sentimentality that left me feeling nauseous, but hey, that's just me.
Was sickened by the kid on the tricycle barrelling down a major thoroughfare. Just finding this site now - FAIL
There is nothing about the story that is not heart-rending, sickening or sordid.
His pilgrimage is dogged by calamity, as oxen sicken and die, the cart carrying the bell catches fire, and waifs and strays join his tattered procession.
The width of the pavement plus about six inches, as Matt and the cart hit the fence about halfway up with a sickening, bone-crunching thud.
As the heavy door fell into place he felt thud after thud after sickening thud as the loathsome creatures outside crashed into the building.
He rappelled it with a clinometer to accurately measure the pitch: a sickening 72 degrees.
Israel's hypocrisy and lies are sickening and revulsive by Elizabeth Molchany on Tuesday, May 12, 2009 at 6: 58: 06 PM World Hypocrisy
More Infections Often Tied to Food According to WHO, of more than 1,600 people sickened by this E. coli strain, 499 developed a rare and potentially fatal kidney-failure complication known as hemolytic uremic syndrome—a complication that can shut down the kidneys and normally occurs in only a small percentage of people sickened during an E. coli outbreak. Rare Germ Drives Outbreak
As patients began to sicken and then die, the staff hunted for the cause.
We've all spilt a few mixers in our time but that's a sickener. The Sun
It sickened him to hear people talking about the great country Ireland was because of EU funds.
She had a sickening feeling of true flying for a moment before the shocking cold and utterly claustrophobic feeling of submersion in water enveloped her.
I'd have thought he'd be out of action for four to eight weeks which is a real sickener.
There's that sickeningly familiar tone again - the rasping, grating, in isolation entirely inoffensive, six-string bravado.
But to concede again straight away was a sickener.
It was as sickening in real time as in slow motion. Times, Sunday Times
All decent people should be sickened by such a pointless waste of life.
Each rolling mountain whelmed them from view, and I would wait with sickening anxiety, fearing that they would never appear again. Chapter 17
The sewer system had a very low ceiling and much of the path was taken up by a stream of thick, black sludge that oozed sickeningly towards some central point.
Nothing strikes one as more painful and odious in the ways of that Court and that Parliament than the language of sickening sycophancy which is used by all statesmen alike in public {86} with regard to kings and princes, for whom in private they could find no words of abuse too strong and coarse, no curse too profane. A History of the Four Georges, Volume II (of 4)
It was a sickener, but it shows that if you can just get in the play-offs you never know what could happen.
Perhaps the most sickening fact is that they have been able to frighten a small number of our older people into believing that they will not be able to afford to pay for vital services.
The car hit the child with a sickening thud.
I was sickened by stereotypes of Indigenous women as promiscuous, drunken whores or sexless Mother Earth types.
The sight sickened her, as the smell reached her nostrils - decay, excrement and urine.
The projected video feed of its crazed, helter-skelter movements delivers the sickening effect of a fairground ride. This week's new exhibitions
With the club poised to go out of business on January 18 unless a new owner can be found, the sickening injury left Brass fearful he may have played his last game for the club.
In taking such excessive, evasive action he was not the only eminent Victorian to be sickened by the idea of engaging in sexual congress.
- to whom, when sickened with the praises of all other men, I could daily betake myself, and be known as the vilest of all sinners, methinks my soul might keep itself alive thereby.
All aspects of the effects, dialogue, and Miles Goodman's sickeningly sweet music score are clear and distortion free.
Their manipulation gives to the touch a sickening, grating sound -- in other words, we have crepitus. Diseases of the Horse's Foot
Israel's hypocrisy and lies are sickening and revulsive by Elizabeth Molchany on Tuesday, May 12, 2009 at 8: 50: 05 PM World Hypocrisy
His soft pink lips bloomed into a sickening smile which drove everyone, well, the girls anyway, crazy.
You'll probably be just a little sickened to hear it's been pretty much plain sailing for this up-and-coming roving reporter.
She says: 'It sickened me. The Sun
A Woody Allen-type nebbish, Lenny is a kvetcher ( "My mind was full of sickening Jewish worry, the pogrom within and the pogrom without"); he frets about his age, his baldness and, in a major way, his parents. Down and Out In Gotham
What happened next has sickened the nation. Times, Sunday Times
Nervousness is sickening, excitement is electrifying.
The whole thing was sickening, the reality so much worse than anything he had foreseen. THE SCAR
It sickens me to see the system being undermined in the name of ‘saving’ and ‘efficiency.’
Letters: Unspeakable horrors were inflicted upon Poland during the war, but to tacitly assert that minorities in the Second Republic were not subject to discrimination and the kind of violence manifest in Nazi Germany in 1938 is a sickening falsehood Letters: Alone under a dictatorship
They spoke of five years of friendship - what John Howard would sickeningly dub "mateship", and what most female friends would simply call "love". Feel the man-love!
He was sickened when, just months later, vandals desecrated the memorial, built to commemorate villagers who fought in the First World War.
In the wake of that sudden flash of comprehension followed a sickening shockwave. COMPULSION
But them sickenin ', sap-headed stiffs, with the grit of rabbits and the silk of mangy ky-yi's, a-cheerin' me -- ME! CHAPTER X
If you recall, just before he became president, Prince Turki, the Saudi ambassador to the United States had a piece in the "Financial Times" criticizing what he called the sickening legacy of the Bush administration with regard to the Middle East. CNN Transcript Apr 3, 2009
On a day of mourning on both sides of the Atlantic, church bells tolled as millions attended special services to mark a sickening atrocity that has brought the world to the brink of war.
How many hungered, sickened or died as a result?
This gross and sickening abuse of public money must be brought to a swift halt. The Sun
He landed with a sickening thwack on the hard pavement but miraculously was unhurt.
There was a sickening crash as her head hit the ground.
It's sickening the way he parades his wealth, his car and his expensive clothes.
Studies have shown that people who commit such cowardly sickening acts against innocent defenceless animals move on to attack bigger things, such as people. The Sun
There is a bulkhead styled like a helicopter and underfloor hydraulics to recreate the sickening vibration of one.
People are sickened and enraged at the slaughter of a free man and want to learn more about its circumstances, consider its implications and find some way to engage with this atrocity in meaningfully.
There is a sickening thud as she's hit - and is left lying motionless in the road. The Sun
It sickened me how many people didn't take advantage of all the time she gave us to do our work so that we didn't have homework, and how many of them criticized her efforts to be a caring teacher.
The ripe, red, pulpy flesh of the melons stands in with sickening authenticity for the wasted tissue of the bodies of the wounded men.
Suddenly, with a sickening slush and smell, the contents came free, sliding to the ground with a dull flop.
Her father's emphasis on 'soundly' declared an approval of the deed, and she was chilled by a sickening abhorrence and dread of the cruel brute in men, such as, awakened by she knew not what, had haunted her for a year of her girlhood. Beauchamp's Career — Complete
There was a sickening crash as her head hit the ground.
My gaze is turned away from the sickening pink preps to a new student.
She then stood next to the telephone box, her stomach beginning to tighten in a way which was becoming sickeningly familiar.
Why do we like to smell our own farts, yet are sickened by those of others?
I am against terrorism in all its forms, but when a government is so barefaced in its terror of innocent civilians it sickens those who want peace to the pit of our stomachs!
She shut them for a moment and immediately felt the world drop out from under her in a sickening swoop of her stomach.
To me there is something repugnant in merely striking a man with one's naked fist — faugh! it is sickening! MOON-FACE
Burying his face into the warm living darkness of Wolf's fur, he tried desperately to wall away the sickening pulse.
(PhysOrg. com) -- Most people need about two days to recover from being sickened by foods contaminated with what's known as staphylococcal enterotoxin A, or PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
To think an animal of that magnificence is being exploited by an outfitter -- whose only claim to "fame" is plain, dumb luck; being in the wrong place at the wrong time -- greatly sickens me. Exclusive Video: Is This the Walking Record Whitetail?
The word sweetheart had given her a sickening feeling. My Dreams Out in the Street
I'm stammering around my room in a daze, those sickening high frequency synths still slicing into me like daggers.
She looks so pale. Is she sickening for something?
He threw down a couple of antacid tablets, only to hear his guts give a further sickening roar. WALL GAMES
There was a sickening sound as his head made contact with the concrete.
His sickeningly sweet breath breezed across the short distance separating them to nauseate her. SILENT TRUTH
Sickening in itself, but it reminds me of the scene in Knowing Me, Knowing Yule 'where Alan Partridge says' If the British public were asked whether they would like an Alan Partridge Christmas special or 14 kidney dialysis machines, the response would be pretty unanimous. 'anne allan Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?
At least a dozen times over the past two years I've heard the sickening thud and tortured tire screech that signals a fresh wreck in the intersection.
Labor conditions in the mines were so harsh that many sickened and died, especially from silicosis, or black lung disease, within months of their arrival.
Some hitched lifts, clinging dangerously on to the sides of trucks and mini buses as they wound around the hairpin curves over a sickening drop to the valley below.
We thought we had a great chance after that, of winning Leinster, but Louth beat us by a point and that was a real sickener.
I was pretty bad myself, but managed to move about all the time, for the frowst in my cabin would have sickened a hippo. Greenmantle
The spreading leprosy taints ev'ry part, Infects each limb, and sickens at the heart.
It ended a run of 14 games unbeaten and it was a sickener to concede in injury time of both halves.
He gave her a sickening smile and then his lips drew back to reveal his long sharp glistening fangs.
Jake had only been a rookie officer then and he'd been sickened by the waste of life.
For a moment she's blindly confused as to who to hit, then she lashes out with the heel of her foot, and there's a sickening squelch from the NCB coal sack between them.
What you did was absolutely disgusting and sickening. The Sun
It was a real sickener, but I've got to get on with it now and get playing again.
There is no dispute about the sickening facts of the case. Times, Sunday Times
a gorge and they drove a cyclist into a patch of maize, they narrowly missed a goat and jumped three gullies, thrice the horse stumbled and was jerked up in time, there were sickening moments, and withal they got down to Piedimulera unbroken and unspilt. The Research Magnificent
The sight sickened her, as the smell reached her nostrils - decay, excrement and urine.
But I told the court of all the sickening abuse he'd put me through. The Sun
I felt a sickening feeling in the pit of my stomach when I saw the ambulance.
Most people need about two days to recover from being sickened by foods contaminated with what's known as staphylococcal enterotoxin A, or "SEA. High Plains Journal: Ag News
Will they cease their depredations against the environment when it is so irreversibly compromised that even their own children begin to sicken and die?
Then his little brother sickened, and died too. Times, Sunday Times
She did, but the horror of the sights and smells which sickened and revulsed her were burned into her brain. OpEdNews - Diary: Food, Inc. - a must- see film
It was a sickener for Schofield who had already missed two matches because of his previous injury and is now out of the last game of the tour against Western Province Academy.
People were sickened by what they saw and his actions have done nothing but damage the already faltering reputation of racing in England.
He said: 'It was sickening. The Sun
A look of repulsion for the sickening display of uncontrolled emotion and loud drunkenness was plastered on his clean-shaven face.
I myself am shocked, sickened and outraged by this violation of our baby's grave.
He hit the floor with a sickening thud.
Anyway, what so sickening is to read Cheney's quote and know that he is part of a cabal that has failed to capture -- strike that -- failed to make the effort to capture Osama Bin Laden. Is That Legal?: Cheney The Fraud
It's a right-down racial war that has been all too familiar in america and it's sickening. Sources: Most uncommitted senators to endorse Obama
It sickens me to think that anyone would even consider downgrading it and making many acute services almost inaccessible to many.
I felt a sickening feeling in the pit of my stomach when I saw the ambulance.
Last month California health officials said feral hogs might be to blame for this summer's E. coli bacteria outbreak in spinach that killed three people and sickened 200 others.
In a report by Nature, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) alleges that Ivins, who committed suicide last July, was the person responsible for mailing letters laden with Bacillus anthraces to news media and congressional offices in 2001, killing five people and sickening 17. More Anthrax Revelations Emerge
Rocky Mountain Natural Meats in Henderson recalled the ground and tenderized bison after it was linked to sickening five people in Colorado and one in New York, the U.S. Rocky Mountain Natural Meats Recalls 66,000 Pounds Of Bison Meat After Being Linked To E. Coli
Business owners were sickened when bags of offal were dumped near their premises in the River Darwen.
These buildings had produced the most sickening and horrific ashes and smoke in existence, and now they were where the thief was hiding.
One species of bacterium sickens cattle, for example, while another attacks frogs, fishes, and other cold-blooded animals.
There is a sickening thud as she's hit - and is left lying motionless in the road. The Sun
The entire nation was sickened by his murder. The Sun
The air was filled with the sickening squeals of wounded horses and the cries of dying men. TREASON KEEP
I don't see what the girls see in you, honest I don't; but the way you win them away from the fellers is sickenin '. Chapter 5
Although there is an ongoing scientific debate over whether foreign terrorists have the technology and ability to launch a credible attack on the U.S. food supply, Kennedy believes the chances of being sickened by such a deliberate agroterrorism act are increasing. Kansas City Star: News
I. i.2 (143,2) [that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die] [W: app'tite, Love] It is true, we do not talk of the _death of appetite_, because we do not ordinarily speak in the figurative language of poetry; but that _appetite sickens by a surfeit_ is true, and therefore proper. Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies
The Bishop said he was sickened by the severity of the sentence.
Still it sickens! — blood of men bestrewed our path, The Voyage of Magellan
We've been working towards it for the whole year and especially after the sickener of losing last year.
Mr Rothwell added: ‘It's a real sickener and I would appeal to the thieves to at least give us back the things which are clearly of no use to them, or to anyone else.’
Prince was seventeen years old, the King sickened of a sore sickness and came nigh to die, so, being certified that his decease was at hand, he said to the people of his household, “This is disease of Death which is upon me; wherefore do ye summon my son and kith and kin and gather together the Grandees and Notables of my empire, so not one of them may remain except he be present.” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
That they seem to have done it for propaganda purposes must sicken all reasonable.
And as he looked at her and considered her curiously, an object to enamour an ascetic and make a devotee lovesick, fire was lighted in his vitals and he cried, Folk say that whoso taketh up his abode in this house dieth or sickeneth. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
He finally sickened of the endless round of parties and idle conversation.
One sickening moment which springs to mind is the bit in ‘Titus’ when we see the mutilated Lavinia for the first time, in all her handless, tongueless glory.
The soul sickens at the monotonous sweetness of such a wersh existence.
There was a sickening sound of tearing metal.
The realisation that I had unconsciously begun to mistrust people on the basis of their skin colour sickened me.
Hard to believe that these people can justify and rationalize such sickening behavior!
It's sickening the way he's always fishing for compliments.
Just this past winter, more than 300,000 Chinese children were sickened, and at least six died, as a resulted of consuming milk deliberately laced with the industrial chemical melamine, which is used in manufacturing plastic products but also creates a false positive for protein testing. Michael A. Santoro and Wendy Goldberg: Hillary Clinton Visits China: What Should Be On The Table
To use ‘blood sports’ as a tool for this though is outrageous and sickening.
There was a sickening crash as her head hit the ground.
As a survivor, I am sickened that polio is still not eradicated and that some parents question the necessity and safety of vaccination. Sharing Personal Stories: Polio
The car hit the child with a sickening thud.
He waited with sickening apprehension for the next aircraft. A DAYSTAR OF FEAR
Not drive them out, not sicken them, but kill them. Fire The Sky
This carbon loophole has allowed pollution giants like Exxon Mobil, Koch Industries, Peabody Coal, and Massey Energy to ravage the planet, sicken our children, and rake in obscene profits for decades. Wonk Room » Byron Dorgan Tells His Flood-Ravaged State That A Repowered America Is ‘Not Going To Happen’
Or maybe it was just Tolkien, sickened by the barbarousness of the 20th century, yearning for the certainties of a lost England that possibly never existed anyway.
There was a sickening sound as his head made contact with the concrete.
The sickening sound of a saliva dripping tongue licking dry lips met my ears.
Some time later, when Inez was in charge of a group of fighting women, when she was all alone, scared, tired and miserable, when she had to win a fight first with herself to make herself go on before she could make anyone else do so, she had cause to remember that “sickener.” Archive 2010-04-01
You know, I've got to tell you, it shocks me and it kind of sickens me too, that if he goes to restaurants, people will come up to him and ask for his autograph, almost gleefully.
There was a sickening crash as her head hit the ground.
Even on a tropical island, dinosaurs would sicken and die eventually.
She felt suddenly sickened, reminded of her real motive for taking this job with Luke.
The sight on deck was sickening beyond the power of words to portray.
The Food and Drug Administration will ban some uses of antibiotics in cattle, pigs, chickens and turkeys out of concern that food-borne bacteria that can sicken humans are becoming resistant to the drugs. FDA Moves to Restrict Use of Antibiotics in Livestock
Last Sunday's single point defeat at Widnes was a sickener for Harrison and his players.
In our understandable anger at the disgraceful and sickening behaviour of a small number of miscreants, we must not abandon norms of fairness and justice.
It's cruel, heartless and sickening. The Sun
Campaigners behind the sickening video yesterday renewed their criticisms of rearing turkeys in cramped shed conditions. The Sun
She almost smiles, chewing and swallowing, her expression sickening yet satisfied. Picture Dreams
But she thought of Ilario lying on his bed, sick unto death, and she drew her long, blue cloak around her, and pressed onward, her feet growing wearier from the effort of walking through the sickening slime, which clogged her steps and seemed to freeze the life within her. The Lily of Life: A Fairy Tale
I am sickened by the way that these people treat their tenants.
There is a sickening thud as she's hit - and is left lying motionless in the road. The Sun
Carol claims the smell this generates is sickening and pervades her entire house.
The idea of bombing innocent people sickens us, as it should any civilized nation.
A California company is recalling alfalfa sprouts after 22 people in 10 states became sickened with Salmonella Newport. Sprouts recalled after 22 sickened by salmonella
Where in the chart was the horrendous road accident, the sickening collision of metal and concrete?
Senators Coburn, Sessions, Kyl, Graham, et. al, sicken me with their condescension and rudeness to Judge Sotomayor. Sotomayor: Judges have different task than what citizens expect
Her huge lips smacked together with each chew of gum that gave off a putrid, sickening watermelon stench.
But his love of me is wonderful; I go further: I, who sicken and freeze at the mere thought of him, when I recall the abjection and passion of this attachment, and when I know how he fears my power to cut him off by suicide, I find it in my heart to pity him. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
He was always easygoing but not too lenient and he was always sweet but not sickeningly mushy.
Its creator says he was given the sickening details by a police pal and decided to publish them on the net in the public interest. The Sun
She felt grubby, tired and, now that the car had pulled up outside the cottage, sickeningly tense.
Chris was the second one to notice, and the scowl dropped rather quickly, replaced by a sickeningly sweet simper that made Sam queasy.
Smashing their way in, officers were met with a sickening stench and dead bluebottles covering the stairs.
That was a bit of a sickener, definitely. Times, Sunday Times
a sickening sanctimonious smile
But during a troubled century, market mayhem occurred with sickening frequency.
The cruel act has shocked animal carers in Swindon, who say they are sickened by the deed.
The sickening stench of rotting rubbish rose into the air.

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