SICK in a Sentence

Learn SICK from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
267 example sentences for SICK, such as:
1. She was sick of all this nursing.
2. I'm absolutely sick to death of it.
3. He who never was sick dics the first.
4. She nursed the sick boy back to health.
5. He who was never sick dies the first fit.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of SICK
sick
 a.  shockingly repellent; inspiring horror
 a.  affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  But it was something we did or said that made her shut up talking and look sort of sick.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
2  Nor had she ever seen her sit down without a bit of needlework in her hands, except at mealtime, while attending the sick or while working at the bookkeeping of the plantation.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
3  Though she recovered physically from Wade's birth in a disgracefully short time, mentally she was dazed and sick.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
4  And every day the trains just below Five Points disgorged more sick and more wounded.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
5  Captain Butler--I'm sick of the name.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
6  The hospitals and homes of Atlanta were overflowing with the sick and wounded, and more and more women were appearing in black.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
7  She was sick now, her pregnancy making itself felt in many unpleasant ways, but she refused to obey Dr. Meade's commands and stay in bed.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
8  Had Melanie not been so faint, so sick, so heartsore, she would have collapsed at his question.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
9  The Confederates were on scant rations and practically without drugs or bandages for their own sick and wounded.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
10  She was sick of all this nursing.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
11  Yes, she was sick of the hospital, the foul smells, the lice, the aching, unwashed bodies.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
12  Yes, Scarlett was sick of it all, and that morning she wished that she, like Melanie, had the excuse of pregnancy to offer.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
13  "I'm just sick and tired of that old hospital," she said, settling her billowing skirts and tying her bonnet bow more firmly under her chin.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
14  Now, if you get sick or hurt or in trouble, let me know.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
15  Carreen had taken a turn for the worse and was very, very sick.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
Example Sentence: (57 in 4 pages)
1  I'm absolutely sick to death of it.
2  He got sick of hanging around waiting for me.
3  Your job won't take care of you when you are sick.
4  The farmer called the vet out to treat a sick cow.
5  The sick and wounded were evacuated from the war zone.
6  He who was never sick dies the first fit.
7  Fall sick and you will see who is your friend and who is not.
8  It was too late to save the sick woman, and she died.
9  I misheard the word "sick" as "thick".
10  She nursed the sick boy back to health.
11  If my child is sick and I leave work, I'm a bad employee.
12  They refused him sick pay when he was off ill, which is a shoddy way to treat an employee.
13  He was sick in the evening, but the following day he was better.
14  The very thought of it makes me feel sick.
15  He who never was sick dics the first.