How to Use sickening in a Sentence

sickening

adjective
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  • We heard the squeal of brakes and a sickening thud.
  • Everyone in the Rose Bowl felt the sickening churn in the depths of our guts.
    — Tyler R. Tynes, Los Angeles Times, 2 Jan. 2024
  • Each new sickening tale opens the door for more women to share their own.
    — Nina Bahadur, SELF, 13 Oct. 2017
  • The report goes on to detail a sickening litany of abuse.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 13 Feb. 2018
  • Gia Gunn asked in the midst of a sickening performance.
    — Joe Lynch, Billboard, 9 Sep. 2019
  • There are a lot of looks, and a sickening amount of clothes, but little in the way of collections that stir the heart or challenge the eye.
    — Maya Singer, Vogue, 18 July 2019
  • Even Michael, who was there via video call, covered his eyes to avoid seeing the sickening scene.
    — Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 19 Sep. 2023
  • As more sickening details have emerged, the horror has grown.
    — Author: Jeffrey Gettleman, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Apr. 2018
  • Great mold-like blooms appear that are at once stunning and sickening.
    — Christopher Orr, The Atlantic, 23 Feb. 2018
  • There is no way to know whether those specific strains are already in the U.S. and sickening babies.
    — Erika Edwards, NBC News, 6 July 2023
  • While half of the flavors are fan-favorites and the other half sound sickening, all of the jelly beans are edible.
    — Sabrina Weiss, Peoplemag, 9 July 2024
  • In the real world, there’s already a sickening theater for the deaths of unarmed black people.
    — Zito Madu, GQ, 24 Apr. 2018
  • This entire sickening process just shows how far the once-great franchise has fallen.
    — Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2024
  • The episode added an element of horror and outrage to a day that, for much of America, had been grim and sickening.
    — Robert King, Indianapolis Star, 27 Aug. 2017
  • To know that people are going to be laughing about it is a sickening feeling.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 16 June 2023
  • Nothing prepared me for that sickening sense of foreboding and the guttural fear that gripped me that day.
    — Pamela Munster, Time, 25 Sep. 2017
  • His decision is a sickening betrayal both of the Kurds and his oath of office.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 8 Oct. 2019
  • That felt heavy and caked on and frustrating, annoying and sickening to have that [makeup on].
    — Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 June 2017
  • For the Angels, there was the sickening symmetry of a decade ago, when 22-year-old pitcher Nick Adenhart was killed by a drunk driver.
    — Andy McCullough, latimes.com, 1 July 2019
  • The sickening wake-up call of fighter jets wheeling overhead.
    — CNN, 9 May 2017
  • For the Mets, though, there was only a sickening plunge to zero—one that will sting for the rest of September as the loss that effectively torched their year.
    — Jon Tayler, SI.com, 4 Sep. 2019
  • So far, research shows fake weed has made its way into the state, sickening or killing Floridians.
    — Cindy Krischer Goodman, Sun Sentinel, 19 Feb. 2023
  • The sickening hatred expressed by white supremacists, neo-Nazis and the KKK must be named and condemned by all.
    — Courant Community, 5 Sep. 2017
  • The sickening hatred expressed by white supremacists, neo-Nazis and the KKK must be named and condemned by all.
    — Courant Community, 29 Aug. 2017
  • Two months had passed since Melissa Bright turned her back for a second, then heard the sickening thump of her baby’s head hitting concrete.
    — NBC News, 7 Nov. 2019
  • Running for his Life includes sickening news footage that shows McEwen’s blood on the lobby floor, as well as a mailbox that Phillips dented with her head.
    — Alexander Nazaryan, Newsweek, 21 Mar. 2017
  • What’s more sickening than the prospect of Trump actually winning the Nobel Peace Prize is watching him act all coy about wanting to win the prize.
    — Stephen A. Crockett Jr., The Root, 10 May 2018
  • Bird flu has spilled over to humans before—in fact, just last week a girl in Cambodia died from H5N1 (although not the same strain as the one that is sickening birds worldwide).
    — Hannah Docter-Loeb, Scientific American, 2 Mar. 2023
  • This was the most overt, sickening display of left-wing bias during a presidential debate.
    — Fox News, 12 Sep. 2024
  • Staring down the pretend map on the seat of the pretend plane from the real seat of my real plane, a familiar, sickening taste rose up my throat: ironic detachment, the unadulterated flavor of purity’s momentary success.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 26 Aug. 2024

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