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How to use sicken in a sentence

20 example sentences · verb

Sicken means to make ill. Example: “The infection will sicken him until amputation is needed.”

Examples of sicken by meaning

verbTo make ill.

  • The infection will sicken him until amputation is needed.
  • Donald Trump’s former top food safety official has accused the administration of a near “catastrophic” mismanagement of the cyclospora outbreak that has sickened thousands of people in the US.2026 July 25, Oliver Milman, “Former FDA official says US handling of cyclospora near ‘catastrophic level’”, in The Guardian, archived from...

verbTo become ill.

  • I will sicken if I don’t get some more exercise.

verbTo fill with disgust or abhorrence.

  • His arrogant behaviour sickens me.
  • Kennedy Jr., the new health secretary, said in a statement that “antisemitism — like racism — is a spiritual and moral malady that sickens societies and kills people with lethalities comparable to history’s most deadly plagues.”2025 March 4, Sharon Otterman, “Trump Threatens Columbia With Millions in Cuts Over Antisemitism Claims”, in The New York Times, archived...

verbTo lower the standing of.

  • Whenever I get booed by opposition fans it only makes me more determined to sicken them.2007, Euan Reedie, Alan Shearer: Portrait Of A Legend - Captain Fantastic, →ISBN
  • But instead of giving up, the Rangers team managed to grab a dramatic later winner from Kenny Miller to sicken St Mirren and lift the cup2011, Scott Burns, Walter Smith the Ibrox Gaffer: A Tribute to a Rangers Legend, →ISBN
  • City took control, pinning a tiring Celtic back and threatening to sicken them with a winner.2016 September 28, Tom English, “Celtic 3–3 Manchester City”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 23 May 2017

More sentences with sicken

  • What they intend sickens and frightens them, and they can never speak of it directly.2016, Ian McEwan, Nutshell, Vintage, page 9. From the entry aporia
  • Are you sickened by the idea of more and more CIA hankypanky in Central America?1984 April 21, Sue Hyde, “Got Those Intervention Blues, Friend?”, in Gay Community News, page 2. From the entry hanky-panky
  • Author Myron Uhlberg, another son of deaf-mute parents, was sickened by the audistic treatment of his father in public.2016, Homer Ross Tomlin, Homer Thornberry: Congressman, Judge, and Advocate for Equal Rights, Fort Worth, T.X.: TCU Press, →ISBN, page 101. From the entry audistic
  • After a medical procedure I will send off a sister ship to the sphere with the sickened savages.2011, Henry Westwood, AD ASTRA PER ASPERA, →ISBN, page 146. From the entry send off
  • The scale and ferocity of violence produced by uncivil wars have fascinated, shocked, and sickened the whole world.2004, John Keane, Violence and Democracy. From the entry blandiloquence
  • A big part of why most Digifans sicken me.2002 March 4, Eri-Bear [username], “Re: Regarding : (Spoilers) 3/2 Saturday Morning”, in alt.fan.power-rangers (Usenet). From the entry Digifan
  • In a few weeks, Mike sickened and died and not long after Pete followed him on the long trail.1926 March 27, “Mona’s Mourning Days Are Over; She Cuts Monkey Shines Now”, in Kenosha Evening News, volume XXXII, number 121, Kenosha…. From the entry monkeyess
  • I was pretty bad myself, but managed to move about all the time, for the frowst in my cabin would have sickened a hippo.1916, John Buchan, Greenmantle. From the entry frowst
  • It is Boletus huronensis, and though some guides call it edible, there have been a few cases of people becoming sickened following a meal of this mushroom.2010, Greg A. Marley, Chanterelle Dreams, Amanita Nightmares. From the entry sickening
  • These medicines addicted, sickened, or killed outright; they also could trigger chemical pneumonitis, or progressive lung injury, if inhaled during a bout of iatrogenic, or physician–triggered, vomiting.2008, Harriet A. Washington, “Southern Discomfort”, in Medical Apartheid, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, page 42. From the entry iatrogenic
  • "Periodically, storms would bring the creeping death to the valley - drifting clouds of radio-active dust - and men would sicken and die and women give birth to monsters."1957, Sydney J. Bounds, The Robot Brains, London: Digit Books, page 153. From the entry monster
  • But he was looking beyond her, and, following the direction of his eyes, she saw a sight that first sickened and then moved her to pity.1924, Edgar Wallace, The Face in the Night. From the entry one over the eight

Meaning of sicken

  1. verb To make ill.
  2. verb To become ill.
  3. verb To fill with disgust or abhorrence.

Full definition of sicken

Questions about sicken in a sentence

How do you use sicken in a sentence?
Sicken is used as a verb. For example: “The infection will sicken him until amputation is needed.”
What is a short sentence with sicken?
“His arrogant behaviour sickens me.”
What does sicken mean?
Sicken means to make ill.

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