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
• Travel has been steep do (sic) to last minute airfares this time.
  — Jessica Seaman, Denver Post, 17 May 2026
• The people that have been killed, the people that have wiped away [sic], and for what?
  — Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 9 Apr. 2026
• Time is running out - 48 hours before all Hell will reign [sic] down on them.
  — Garrett Downs,azhar Sukri, CNBC, 5 Apr. 2026
• Thankyou [sic] for your patience, love and never ending support.
  — Chanel Vargas, InStyle, 4 Apr. 2026
• Now folks are playing the blame game, trying to sic the stans on each other.
  — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 18 Mar. 2026