How to Use sick in a Sentence

sick

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  • This turns out to be the case with Grace, the patient who was making her daughter sick.
    — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
  • Brandan was already sick of being in the middle — and this would be just the start.
    — Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 31 Oct. 2023
  • The predators play an important role in culling sick elk and deer.
    — Justine Calma, The Verge, 19 Dec. 2023
  • Then about two weeks before the wedding, her dad got sick and lost some weight.
    — Jordan Greene, Peoplemag, 20 Dec. 2023
  • The chef and host, Erin Patterson, and her two children were at the meal, and none of them became sick.
    — Rebecca Cohen, NBC News, 2 Nov. 2023
  • Getting sick from the germ is rare, the CDC said, but infections in children can led to death.
    — James M. O'Neill, USA TODAY, 2 Sep. 2023
  • Pace saw it 12 times in the theater: 10 times with his son and two times by himself after his son got sick of it.
    — Sarah Gish, Kansas City Star, 31 Jan. 2024
  • For those sick of all that wet weather, hang on: more rain is being forecast in about a week.
    — David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb. 2024
  • And to get through a workday while sick — even from bed — likely takes more meds than just sleeping it off.
    — TIME, 20 Dec. 2023
  • People can also get sick if a bird bites them or through beak-to-mouth contact.
    — Jen Christensen, CNN, 5 Mar. 2024
  • By the time of Russia's full-scale invasion in 2022, Mykola was too sick to be moved.
    — Samya Kullab The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 1 Feb. 2024
  • The opera tells the story of a brother and sister trying to raise money for their sick mother.
    — Douglas Starr, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Aug. 2023
  • The only time a coyote wins in a coyote-vs-dog fight is if the dog is old and sick or really small.
    — Matthew Every, Field & Stream, 7 Dec. 2023
  • There was a hospital bed in our living room with a very sick human in it, my dad.
    — Vanessa Etienne, Peoplemag, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Nine of the ten birds resisted infection, and the one chicken that did get sick did not spread the virus to any others.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Oct. 2023
  • If a person does get sick, the illness is likely to be milder and last a shorter amount of time, said Russo.
    — Nick Blackmer, Verywell Health, 11 Dec. 2023
  • In one study, published in 2013, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh swabbed the noses and mouths of people sick with the flu.
    — Quanta Magazine, 11 Apr. 2024
  • Viruses can get sick in the sense that their normal function is impaired.
    — The Conversation, Scientific American, 14 Nov. 2023
  • The dangers of extreme heat are apparent to Cruz, who saw a neighbor get sick and die during the heat wave.
    — Denise Chow, NBC News, 12 July 2023
  • Few jokes, no matter how sick and strong, can be told over and over without beginning to fade.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2023
  • This was a woman who was never sick, despite the fact that she was born with a bad heart and had a valve donated from a pig for the past 25 years.
    — Lisa Sanders, M.d., New York Times, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Many shelters have policies in place to keep people from getting sick.
    — Jose R. Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 31 May 2023
  • Many more workers are going to get sick and die on the job here in FL in the absence of any local or state heat protections.
    — Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Acute mountain sickness, the least severe of the bunch, might be something easy to write off as just feeling a bit sick, or even hungover.
    — Allie Conti, Field & Stream, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Someone most likely wouldn’t get sick from the bacteria found in the supplements, as well as the low levels present.
    — Claudia Lopez Lloreda, Discover Magazine, 21 Mar. 2024
  • Tired of waiting, driven by fear that the black mold in her current kitchen was making her child sick, Dicks went to the DHS in person to get answers.
    — Marissa J. Lang, Washington Post, 8 Oct. 2023
  • With a shortage of general practitioners and nowhere else to turn, the E.R. has become the first stop for millions of sick Britons.
    — Mark Landler, New York Times, 16 July 2023
  • Mold can penetrate the entire product in these cases, and there’s no need to risk getting sick.
    — Brittany Leitner, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Dec. 2023
  • Its chemical cousins delta-8 is already here — and making some people sick.
    — John Diedrich, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | Ashley Okwuosa, The Examination | Amy Yurkanin, Al.com, Journal Sentinel, 18 Apr. 2024
  • Additionally, five patients have either died or became too sick while on the waiting list for a liver transplant so far in 2024.
    — Vanessa Etienne, Peoplemag, 13 Apr. 2024

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