sickening - use in sentences

Adjective complement with noun phrase

  • find: Like many people who are bullied, she felt she could not escape and found the whole experience sickening.

Infinitive complement

  • think: It's sickening to think back to how I was and what I ate.
  • see: They all deserve what they have got, but it is very sickening to see certain other names in the same lists.
  • watch: This has been so sickening to watch him use the hell out of you!
  • hear: How sickening to hear so many Americans cheering to such utter trash.

Modifies a noun

  • thud: Dad landed with yet another sickening thud, this time at the base of his spine.
  • certainty: This I can tell you with a sickening certainty.
  • sight: Anthony Vickers ' Blog England exit is crying shame - It's the most sickening sight in football.
  • crash: At approximately 3.00 am there was a sickening crash which wakened everyone instantly.
  • feeling: A sickening feeling starts to grow from the pit of my stomach.
  • blow: Ako pushed his way through and delivered a sickening blow to the beast's head.

Modifying Another Word

  • truly: Wonderful, and the same time truly sickening in only ways that an ode to gravy can be!
  • quite: The continuous crack and thud of bullets was quite sickening.
  • just: She said: " The whole thing is just sickening.
  • so: I've got to check with my manager, I've got to check with... " So sickening.
  • rather: From this point onward, events happened at a rather sickening pace.
  • very: They all deserve what they have got, but it is very sickening to see certain other names in the same lists.

Used with adjective complement

  • become: Charlie Whitaker | 11:10, Friday 29 April 2005 comment The Guardian has become sickening lately.

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