How to Use sicken in a Sentence

sicken

verb

• Many people sickened and died on the long voyage.
• The bacteria in the drinking water sickened the whole village.
• We were sickened by the reports of violence.
• Among the 14 states listed on the CDC’s map, Ohio has 11 sickened, the most of the outbreak.
  — Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 5 Jan. 2024
• The helplessness of the young victims and the savagery of the attack sickened France.
  — John Leicester, Anchorage Daily News, 8 June 2023
• The prison guards brought her a milky porridge with a piece of oily fish that sickened her.
  — J Wortham, New York Times, 2 May 2024
• One way to reduce the number of birds at your feeders is to sicken them.
  — Jim Williams, Star Tribune, 2 Feb. 2021
• The lake stinks, and signs go up warning that the toxic sludge can sicken children and kill pets.
  — Emma Marris, The Atlantic, 5 June 2021
• So far, three farmworkers have been sickened in the U.S., one in Texas and two in Michigan.
  — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 5 June 2024
• An oil spill in 2018 caused a fire that killed five people and sickened hundreds in the port city of Balikpapan.
  — Achmad Ibrahim, ajc, 3 Mar. 2023
• Two farmworkers at dairies in Michigan and Texas were sickened by bird flu this spring.
  — Josh Funk, Fortune, 25 May 2024
• At that moment — and for many months after — the idea of wrestling again sickened the Elmhurst College graduate.
  — Stacy St. Clair, Chicago Tribune, 5 May 2024
• All of the people sickened were hospitalized, and three have died.
  — Maya Davis, CNN, 8 Aug. 2024
• The viruses best adapted to humans have co-evolved over millions of years to infect but rarely sicken us.
  — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 7 Apr. 2021
• Despite having the power to sicken, there are few laws in the United States to regulate odor.
  — New York Times, 13 Jan. 2022
• Although the disease is not known to sicken humans, some scientists fear that could change.
  — Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2022
• Most of the viruses that fall into the bird-flu category do not sicken humans.
  — oregonlive, 18 May 2022
• Thousands of students said they were sickened by noxious fumes in the incidents.
  — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 4 June 2023
• Pets can eat a small amount of unseasoned turkey without the skin but should not be given table scraps since the salt, fat, and bones can sicken pets.
  — Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 23 Nov. 2022
• Daily Harvest has not yet specified what caused the tara flour to sicken people.
  — Daniella Silva, NBC News, 21 July 2022
• The tests only sample a small part of each crop, so mold may grow undetected and may sicken those who eat it or inhale its spores.
  — Robert McCoppin, chicagotribune.com, 1 Jan. 2022
• He's seen the scores of New Mexicans and tribal members sickened since Trinity, the code name for the first nuclear test in 1945.
  — Claudia Grisales, NPR, 6 May 2024
• Experts say the rush to move them back to shelters, combined with the lack of air-quality upgrades, is likely to sicken and kill people.
  — Kevin T. Dugan, Curbed, 16 Aug. 2021
• The virus can sicken otherwise healthy infants and cause pneumonia and inflammation of the small airways in the lungs.
  — Emily Alpert Reyes, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2023
• In places like Baytown, working-class people depend on the very companies that sicken them to earn a living.
  — Kathleen Flynn, ProPublica, 2 Nov. 2021
• There have been anecdotal reports that pets or livestock have been sickened.
  — Patrick Orsagos, ajc, 17 Feb. 2023
• But three of the other four strains also can cause serious human disease, and the fourth is known to sicken pigs and non-human primates.
  — National Geographic, 16 June 2020
• However, none contained the live virus that could sicken people.
  — Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA TODAY, 3 May 2024
• At least 449 people have been sickened due to a salmonella outbreak tied to cucumbers.
  — Sabienna Bowman, Peoplemag, 16 Aug. 2024
• In previous years working with Wild Wings, the center saw birds of prey injured from hitting windows; hit by vehicles; shot by pellet or BB guns; sickened by pesticides or rat poison; or stuck in glue traps, barbed wire or fishing line.
  — Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2024

Last Updated: 16 Sep 2024