How to Use sickening in a Sentence

sickening

adjective

• 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
• In the real world, there’s already a sickening theater for the deaths of unarmed black people.
  — Zito Madu, GQ, 24 Apr. 2018
• 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, 29 Aug. 2017
• The sickening hatred expressed by white supremacists, neo-Nazis and the KKK must be named and condemned by all.
  — Courant Community, 5 Sep. 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
• Spieth’s shot never had a prayer, landing on the front bank with a sickening thud and bouncing into its watery grave.
  — Adam Schupak, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2018
• She was shot to death in the heat of a moment that never should have happened but does, at different times and places, with sickening frequency.
  — al, 23 Feb. 2023
• The sickening sludge isn’t just concentrated in the Gulf of Mexico.
  — al.com, 12 July 2019
• The long holiday break quite literally came to a crashing halt as my head hit the ice on Cheney Lake with a sickening thud.
  — Erin Kirkland, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Jan. 2018

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024