How to Use sick in a Sentence

sick

adjective

• She is sick with the flu.
• I'm too sick to go to work.
• She has been on the sick list all week.
• The medicine just made me sicker.
• He is at home sick in bed.
• The way they treat people makes me sick.
• My poor rosebush looks sick.
• The sickest patients are in intensive care.
• This turns out to be the case with Grace, the patient who was making her daughter sick.
  — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
• Brandan was already sick of being in the middle — and this would be just the start.
  — Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 31 Oct. 2023
• The predators play an important role in culling sick elk and deer.
  — Justine Calma, The Verge, 19 Dec. 2023
• Then about two weeks before the wedding, her dad got sick and lost some weight.
  — Jordan Greene, Peoplemag, 20 Dec. 2023
• The chef and host, Erin Patterson, and her two children were at the meal, and none of them became sick.
  — Rebecca Cohen, NBC News, 2 Nov. 2023
• Getting sick from the germ is rare, the CDC said, but infections in children can led to death.
  — James M. O'Neill, USA TODAY, 2 Sep. 2023
• Pace saw it 12 times in the theater: 10 times with his son and two times by himself after his son got sick of it.
  — Sarah Gish, Kansas City Star, 31 Jan. 2024
• For those sick of all that wet weather, hang on: more rain is being forecast in about a week.
  — David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb. 2024
• And to get through a workday while sick — even from bed — likely takes more meds than just sleeping it off.
  — TIME, 20 Dec. 2023
• People can also get sick if a bird bites them or through beak-to-mouth contact.
  — Jen Christensen, CNN, 5 Mar. 2024
• By the time of Russia's full-scale invasion in 2022, Mykola was too sick to be moved.
  — Samya Kullab The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 1 Feb. 2024
• The opera tells the story of a brother and sister trying to raise money for their sick mother.
  — Douglas Starr, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Aug. 2023
• The only time a coyote wins in a coyote-vs-dog fight is if the dog is old and sick or really small.
  — Matthew Every, Field & Stream, 7 Dec. 2023
• There was a hospital bed in our living room with a very sick human in it, my dad.
  — Vanessa Etienne, Peoplemag, 4 Oct. 2023
• Nine of the ten birds resisted infection, and the one chicken that did get sick did not spread the virus to any others.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Oct. 2023
• If a person does get sick, the illness is likely to be milder and last a shorter amount of time, said Russo.
  — Nick Blackmer, Verywell Health, 11 Dec. 2023
• In one study, published in 2013, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh swabbed the noses and mouths of people sick with the flu.
  — Quanta Magazine, 11 Apr. 2024
• Viruses can get sick in the sense that their normal function is impaired.
  — The Conversation, Scientific American, 14 Nov. 2023
• The dangers of extreme heat are apparent to Cruz, who saw a neighbor get sick and die during the heat wave.
  — Denise Chow, NBC News, 12 July 2023
• Few jokes, no matter how sick and strong, can be told over and over without beginning to fade.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2023
• This was a woman who was never sick, despite the fact that she was born with a bad heart and had a valve donated from a pig for the past 25 years.
  — Lisa Sanders, M.d., New York Times, 8 Sep. 2023
• Many shelters have policies in place to keep people from getting sick.
  — Jose R. Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 31 May 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024