How to Use sicken in a Sentence

sicken

verb
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  • Many people sickened and died on the long voyage.
  • The bacteria in the drinking water sickened the whole village.
  • We were sickened by the reports of violence.
  • Among the 14 states listed on the CDC’s map, Ohio has 11 sickened, the most of the outbreak.
    — Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 5 Jan. 2024
  • The helplessness of the young victims and the savagery of the attack sickened France.
    — John Leicester, Anchorage Daily News, 8 June 2023
  • The prison guards brought her a milky porridge with a piece of oily fish that sickened her.
    — J Wortham, New York Times, 2 May 2024
  • One way to reduce the number of birds at your feeders is to sicken them.
    — Jim Williams, Star Tribune, 2 Feb. 2021
  • The lake stinks, and signs go up warning that the toxic sludge can sicken children and kill pets.
    — Emma Marris, The Atlantic, 5 June 2021
  • So far, three farmworkers have been sickened in the U.S., one in Texas and two in Michigan.
    — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 5 June 2024
  • The Missouri patient was the 14th person in the U.S. sickened with bird flu since March, when the virus was detected in cows.
    — Lindsey Leake, Fortune Well, 12 Sep. 2024
  • An oil spill in 2018 caused a fire that killed five people and sickened hundreds in the port city of Balikpapan.
    — Achmad Ibrahim, ajc, 3 Mar. 2023
  • And the new virus — which has killed more than 1,000 people and sickened tens of thousands — has emerged as an economic wild card.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 11 Feb. 2020
  • Two farmworkers at dairies in Michigan and Texas were sickened by bird flu this spring.
    — Josh Funk, Fortune, 25 May 2024
  • At that moment — and for many months after — the idea of wrestling again sickened the Elmhurst College graduate.
    — Stacy St. Clair, Chicago Tribune, 5 May 2024
  • All of the people sickened were hospitalized, and three have died.
    — Maya Davis, CNN, 8 Aug. 2024
  • The viruses best adapted to humans have co-evolved over millions of years to infect but rarely sicken us.
    — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 7 Apr. 2021
  • Despite having the power to sicken, there are few laws in the United States to regulate odor.
    — New York Times, 13 Jan. 2022
  • About a quarter of those sickened in San Antonio are people in their 40s.
    — Peggy O’Hare, ExpressNews.com, 27 Mar. 2020
  • That outbreak has left 49 people sickened across 10 states and one person dead.
    — James Powel, The Indianapolis Star, 25 Oct. 2024
  • Although the disease is not known to sicken humans, some scientists fear that could change.
    — Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2022
  • Most of the viruses that fall into the bird-flu category do not sicken humans.
    — oregonlive, 18 May 2022
  • Thousands of students said they were sickened by noxious fumes in the incidents.
    — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 4 June 2023
  • Pets can eat a small amount of unseasoned turkey without the skin but should not be given table scraps since the salt, fat, and bones can sicken pets.
    — Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 23 Nov. 2022
  • Daily Harvest has not yet specified what caused the tara flour to sicken people.
    — Daniella Silva, NBC News, 21 July 2022
  • The goal is to slow the virus’ spread to avoid overwhelming hospitals with those sickened by an illness that no one in the world has immunity to.
    — Andrew Taylor, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2020
  • The tests only sample a small part of each crop, so mold may grow undetected and may sicken those who eat it or inhale its spores.
    — Robert McCoppin, chicagotribune.com, 1 Jan. 2022
  • He's seen the scores of New Mexicans and tribal members sickened since Trinity, the code name for the first nuclear test in 1945.
    — Claudia Grisales, NPR, 6 May 2024
  • Experts say the rush to move them back to shelters, combined with the lack of air-quality upgrades, is likely to sicken and kill people.
    — Kevin T. Dugan, Curbed, 16 Aug. 2021
  • The virus can sicken otherwise healthy infants and cause pneumonia and inflammation of the small airways in the lungs.
    — Emily Alpert Reyes, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2023
  • First announced by the agency on Tuesday, the outbreak was originally reported after sickening 49 across 10 states and killing one.
    — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 25 Oct. 2024

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