How to Use sic in a Sentence

sic

verb

• Then, in the third scene, Hobbs seeks vengeance against Shaw for an airport-search prank by sicking the London police on him.
  — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 2 Aug. 2019
• No word yet on whether Villeneuve is going to sic the Fremen on Warner Bros.
  — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2021
• And that the internet should sic itself on she who committed such a sin, and her alone?
  — Amy Odell, Cosmopolitan, 19 July 2016
• As the unarmed, handcuffed man vomited and begged for his life, police threatened to sic a dog on him.
  — NBC News, 18 Dec. 2020
• The college students stood across the street from the courthouse when police doused the protestors with tear gas, sic dogs on them and arrested many of the students.
  — Shannon Rae Green, USA TODAY, 24 Jan. 2022
• There are thousands of years of human history to sic an extraterrestrial hunter on.
  — Vulture, 4 Aug. 2022
• Lorenz retweeted his post. Reporting the name of someone who already has a public profile and also uses a twitter account to sic hordes of trolls on other people is not doxing.
  — Grayson Quay, The Week, 19 Apr. 2022
• To threaten to sic the police on that community is another form of inciting violence.
  — refinery29.com, 29 Apr. 2020
• All of these people are the latest victims of an internet-age crime called swatting, in which bad actors sic the police on a fellow internet user who has angered, offended, or simply annoyed them.
  — Emma Grey Ellis, WIRED, 22 Aug. 2019
• Harvey Weinstein survived by placing financial pressure on his victims and offering incentives to everyone else to keep quiet; the markets that made him a millionaire enabled him to hire literal spies and sic them on Rose McGowan.
  — Sarah Jones, New Republic, 8 Dec. 2017
• Now folks are playing the blame game, trying to sic the stans on each other.
  — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 18 Mar. 2026