MORBID in a Sentence
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25 example sentences for MORBID, such as:
1. She felt a morbid desire to ascertain the point.
2. He suffered much from a morbid acuteness of the senses.
3. The trip was made all the worse by Frankie's morbid fear of flying.
4. There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain.
5. A crowd of morbid sightseers were still gathered round Deep Dene House, which was just such a suburban villa as I had pictured.
2. He suffered much from a morbid acuteness of the senses.
3. The trip was made all the worse by Frankie's morbid fear of flying.
4. There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain.
5. A crowd of morbid sightseers were still gathered round Deep Dene House, which was just such a suburban villa as I had pictured.
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Meanings and Examples of MORBID
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morbid
a. suggesting the horror of death and decay
a. suggesting an unhealthy mental state
Classic Sentence: (23 in 2 pages)
1 "Don't be morbid," Jordan said.
2 "You're morbid, George," said his friend.
3 This morbid meddling of conscience with an immaterial matter betokened, it is to be feared, no genuine and steadfast penitence, but something doubtful, something that might be deeply wrong beneath.
4 It grovelled helpless on the ground, even while his intellectual faculties retained their pristine strength, or had perhaps acquired a morbid energy, which disease only could have given them.
5 She felt a morbid desire to ascertain the point.
6 Men of uncommon intellect, who have grown morbid, possess this occasional power of mighty effort, into which they throw the life of many days and then are lifeless for as many more.
7 The dark pencilling of fatigue under her eyes, the morbid blue-veined pallour of the temples, brought out the brightness of her hair and lips, as though all her ebbing vitality were centred there.
8 When Doctor Mandelet dined with the Pontelliers on Thursday he could discern in Mrs. Pontellier no trace of that morbid condition which her husband had reported to him.
9 There was a morbid sensitiveness and acuteness of feeling in me on all possible subjects, of which he and my father had no kind of understanding, and with which they could have no possible sympathy.
10 Shut in and morbid as his life had been, Colin had more imagination than she had and at least he had spent a good deal of time looking at wonderful books and pictures.
11 One of his darkest miseries in the unhealthy morbid past days had been his hatred of being a sickly weak-backed boy whose father was afraid to look at him.
12 At every new attempt to look about him the same morbid sensibility to light was manifested, and excoriating tears ran down his cheeks.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: 2 He Is Set upon by Adversities but He Sings a Song
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: 2 He Is Set upon by Adversities but He Sings a Song
13 A crowd of morbid sightseers were still gathered round Deep Dene House, which was just such a suburban villa as I had pictured.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In II. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NORWOOD BUILDER
Context Highlight In II. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NORWOOD BUILDER
14 There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain.
15 One hardly knew at times whether one was reading the spiritual ecstasies of some mediaeval saint or the morbid confessions of a modern sinner.
Example Sentence:
1 He suffered much from a morbid acuteness of the senses.
2 The trip was made all the worse by Frankie's morbid fear of flying.