How to Use sic in a Sentence

sic

verb

• My heartaches [sic] for those still in harm’s way or mourning greater losses.
  — Janhvi Bhojwani, NBC News, 10 Jan. 2025
• Now folks are playing the blame game, trying to sic the stans on each other.
  — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 18 Mar. 2026
• The truth needs to come out more [sic] matter who is responsible.
  — Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Apr. 2025
• And that the internet should sic itself on she who committed such a sin, and her alone?
  — Amy Odell, Cosmopolitan, 19 July 2016
• This will effect [sic] people differently, so reach out, and offer to help.
  — EW.com, 10 Jan. 2025
• Just going straight up there and get [sic] to play songs on my ones and still get to see and feel the energy of the show as everyone leaves!
  — Katie Bain, Billboard, 25 Sep. 2025
• During the holocaust [sic] our grandparents would have been delighted if people in the free world had stood up for them.
  — Ben Sales, Sun Sentinel, 3 June 2025
• There are thousands of years of human history to sic an extraterrestrial hunter on.
  — Vulture, 4 Aug. 2022
• The hustle, the grind, sprinkled occassionally [sic] with the odd acting job.
  — Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 14 Apr. 2025
• No word yet on whether Villeneuve is going to sic the Fremen on Warner Bros.
  — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2021
• There are make [sic] around 700 of them left because the Palestinians have genocided them.
  — Grace Gilson, Sun Sentinel, 9 June 2025
• 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
• 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
• The president won't be able to sic the military on civilians without nationwide pushback.
  — Newsweek Staff, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 June 2025
• To threaten to sic the police on that community is another form of inciting violence.
  — refinery29.com, 29 Apr. 2020
• Too many of you are more concerned with being polite and *appearing* to be good people rather than showing some damn backbone and standing on principal (sic) to condemn hate.
  — Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 12 Sep. 2025
• American students will be permanently expelled or, depending on on [sic] the crime, arrested.
  — Scott Nover, TIME, 5 Mar. 2025
• Loading your audio article A Georgia man who blew up a woman’s home and planned to sic a python on her child will spend 20 years in federal prison.
  — Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 24 Feb. 2025
• The current Republican Party is a big tent coalition compromised (sic) of many former Democrats.
  — Zack Sharf, Variety, 18 Feb. 2025
• But trying to sic the Department of Homeland Security on him sounds like a move that would be in this administration’s playbook.
  — Martha Ross, Mercury News, 16 May 2025
• 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
• Flock’s overreach is already so vast that, in Feder’s case, he was warned to drive straight home and not cross into the neighboring towns — where their own Flock cameras would wrongly flag his car and sic the cops on him, too.
  — Frank Landymore, Futurism, 9 July 2026
• Swatting attempts — false calls intended to sic law enforcement on a target's home — have become increasingly common for political and public figures.
  — Kathryn Watson, CBS News, 26 June 2026
• Senator Collins, on behalf of all fisherman (sic) of Maine, thank you for your continual support in preserving our heritage, tradition and economy.
  — Jackson Thompson, Fox News, 15 Mar. 2025