Read full poem →Chaos, Cosmos! Cosmos, Chaos! once again the
sickening game ;
Freedom, free to slay herself, and dying while they
Dictionary Entry
To make ill.
In a Sentence
“The infection will sicken him until amputation is needed.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. sickeningfeeling sickeningthud sickeningsmell sickeningsight sickeningsense sickening
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Poetry examples for “sickening”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →The world’s best pleasures for relief,
My heart, still sickening back to you,
Finds none like memory of its grief;
Read full poem →taken for Shakespeare’s own conviction— is that of a man who is
sickening to his end, who has ceased to be a man, who has acted
himself— so to speak— out of his beliefs.
Read full poem →He does not know that sickening thirst
That sands one’s throat, before
Read full poem →Or a dread vision as when Semele
Sickening for love and unappeased desire
Prayed to see God’s clear body, and the fire
Read full poem →He does not know that sickening thirst
That sands one's throat, before
Read full poem →He does not know that sickening thirst
That sands one's throat, before
Read full poem →He does not feel that sickening thirst
That sands one's throat, before
Read full poem →Loud roar the billows, high the waves arise;
Sickening with fear, he longs to view the shore,
And vows to trust the faithless deep no more.
Read full poem →Starting new fads for the shame-weary girl,
By maggoty motions in sickening line
Proclaiming a hat or a soup or a wine,