Examples of sicken in a Sentence
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.
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The plant—and particularly the liverwurst product made there—was determined to be the source of a Listeria outbreak that spanned May to September of last year, sickening at least 61 people across 19 states.
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Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 16 Sep. 2025
Whether those people are sickened by grief and rage into a kind of temporary insanity, genuine lunatics, hustlers looking to milk a little more engagement or some combination of the three doesn’t really matter.
—Chris Stirewalt, The Hill, 12 Sep. 2025
In late August, contaminated oysters sickened several people in Louisiana, killing two people and sending 22 others to the hospital.
—Mollye Barrows, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2025
The news comes after an August outbreak in Harlem, which sickened 114 and killed 7 people.
—Cara Lynn Shultz, PEOPLE, 10 Sep. 2025
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Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 16 Sep. 2025
Whether those people are sickened by grief and rage into a kind of temporary insanity, genuine lunatics, hustlers looking to milk a little more engagement or some combination of the three doesn’t really matter.
—Chris Stirewalt, The Hill, 12 Sep. 2025
In late August, contaminated oysters sickened several people in Louisiana, killing two people and sending 22 others to the hospital.
—Mollye Barrows, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2025
The news comes after an August outbreak in Harlem, which sickened 114 and killed 7 people.
—Cara Lynn Shultz, PEOPLE, 10 Sep. 2025
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“Sicken.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sicken. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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