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Sentence Examples Unfortunately, the wine was almost unbearably sickly sweet, without any tartness or depth, and about as refreshing as a jug of syrup. The yellow street lights caused the world to glow sickly as he moved through the downtown South District. There is, one might observe, truth in the aesthetic, but truth defined by the aesthetic easily descends into sickly aestheticism. Despite enduring a sickly childhood Charles matured into a strong-willed Stuart monarch and an advocate of the divine right of kings. I entered the school and was met by the sweet, sickly smell of flowers and the dead. His erect attitude and sickly whiteness of face, flowing white hair, and spiritual aspect gave him the appearance of a grand old saint. The atmosphere seemed stifling, the sweet, sickly smell in the air was unbearable. A slight, sickly child, he grew increasingly odd and eccentric, throwing tantrums, fussing about and repeatedly breaking wind. Bright white and blue flowers bloomed from them and smelled almost sickly sweet. The dark red blood forms a glaring contrast to the sickly green of the flesh. In this state they contain small amounts of a poisonous alkaloid, and have a sickly, unpleasant smell and taste. A real man, I used to say, no matter how sickly or incapacitated, should pick up a case by its handle and carry it like a man. Flora saw her chance, lunged, and ripped into Moonlights chest and pulled out her heart, which was glowing a sickly purple. As I walked from work in the late winter Melbourne sunshine yesterday I smelled the sickly, sweet stench of death. A former drug addict and reformed hellraiser, he's on the comeback trail with a sickly song that gradually starts to work its way up the charts. Describing an object, sentiment or situation which is cute in a sickly, laughable, boring, old, shudderingly childish and overly sweet way. I imagine her to be short and squat, but pretty feminine in a sickly flowery way despite her dumpiness. Behind all its smug hypocrisy and sickly sentimentality are the sinister outlines of the class war. The lyrics are so endearing, the sentiment so sickly sweet, that you can't help but sing along in faux earnest. Hawley achieves the difficult task of walking the tightrope between sweet and sickly sweet, between sentiment and sentimentality. Show More Sentences When he asked the question, he shifted back to a patronising, sickly treacle-sweet voice. I mean, they're nice enough but after a handful or so they become a bit sickly. We also ordered a side salad with a dressing which was almost sickly sweet. After a sickly childhood, he entered manhood with uncommon zest and ambition. I LOATHE the new-fangled, sickly sweet, vodka-based mixes with silly names that fill the fridges in trendy bars. Even during rather tense scenes, the music was sickly sweet, laid on thick with little subtlety. A sickly brown miasma eddied about his feet as he stepped around the bodies. He recalls Fleur's mother and the trauma she endured to keep her sickly daughter on this side of the grave. Wadsworth, the golden-eyed tuxedo cat, began life as a sickly runt who was abandoned at an English pub called Horse and Jockey. As a child in Germany he was frail and sickly, and because of this he became obsessed with his body image. He smiled a sickly simper, eyeing the rabbit with more contempt by the minute. The walls were painted only in a sickly yellow undercoat, and even that was peeling. Erin had been a very thin and somewhat sickly girl, supposedly anorexic or bulimic. His brother is too sickly to do any chores, so Chris ends up working on the house and slopping the hogs while his father drives hours to his job. She began to cough and splutter sickly, the urge to do so appearing quite abruptly. Hong Kong's sickly economy is bouncing back to good health say employers, workers and consumers. It smelled disgustingly of sickly sweet burning candles and flowery hand lotion. Instead of verdant green, I'm a glow-in-the-dark sickly pale, bearing only the beginnings of undeveloped fruit and struggling to survive. They're incredibly sweet and incredibly filling and suddenly incredibly sickly. Frozen in place, he noted how the red costume was perforated with holes of varying sizes, and that the flesh beneath was a sickly gray. Show More Sentences You brushed past her gently on the way into the flat, and you almost tasted her perfume, so sickly sweet, so cloying. In every direction, the normally lush fairways of La Manga's south course were a sickly straw colour and the greens were a pallid brown. But another starter of vegetarian spring rolls was soggy and their sweet-and-sour dip verged on the sickly. His face alone is a portrait of sickly, soured ambition, with sunken, shadowed features and huge, tormented eyes. Cold weather was much better than the intense, sickly feeling that occurred in the summertime. Tests on animals have a high failure rate, and a tendency to produce sickly and malformed clones. His brown shoulder length hair was thinning at the scalp and his skin seemed pale and sickly in garish torchlight. This story is so sugar-coated, sappy, and sickly sweet that I contracted diabetes while watching it. The veal melted in the mouth, and the creamy sauce was saved from being sickly by meaty mushrooms and a hit of Marsala. Sparta was a martial society, which did away with any sickly child at birth. I smiled a sickly half smile, and then stirred some baking powder into the sponge cake batter. It skidded across the slick surface and fell off the other side with a sickly thunk. In about a third of the homes I saw the sickly blue flicker of televisions bleeding through the curtains. I couldn't have said whether it was the reflection of the snow or something else that gave his face a sickly, cadaverous tint. Again, she tried to scream but one of the figures put a sickly smelling cloth on her nose and mouth and she began to feel tired. His rare lyrical quality bears emotional depth without sickly sweetness, and sly humour without jokey or ironic irritants. Speaking of which, the skin that was bruised gleamed in a sickly yellowish hue, but the swelling has subsided at least. While there were leaves, they were sickly and frail and barely hanging on from their branches. As a tyke, little Bobby Jones was a frail, sickly kid, living under the auspices of protective parents, and a Puritanical grandfather. My true love returned a fortnight later, clearly shocked to see such a pale, weak and sickly frame propped up against a mountain of pillows. Show More Sentences Physically he gives Alexei a gentle, frail, almost sickly presence that naturally arouses women's protective instincts. Rumoured to be sickly, deformed and incapable of producing heirs, Carlos was widely held to have only a few years to live. Scrawny and pale, with a mop of scruffy black hair and watery grey eyes, he looked sickly and weak. Colonel Brandon mentions wearing one, and Marianne takes this as a sign he is old and sickly, and incapable of being a lover. The incessant screech grew in a massive crescendo of sound, and made Vincent's entire body feel sickly and weak. The strip lights above you cast a sickly ghostly light through the metal cubicle. The sun never made quite an effect on him, resulting in a sickly pale complexion, which was the basis of many a taunt. This King, of course, was a sickly neurotic, whom every day brought nearer to complete mental disability. Her sun baked skin had deteriorated to a grey, sickly pallor and her eyes had lost its bright sparkle. If there was anything to be salvaged from the situation, it might've been said to have been worth it for the sickly expression on Rupert's face. Estelle grew from a wan, sickly child into a lovely maiden, her skin pale as the moonlight and hair as raven as the starless night. He needed a shave, his complexion was pale and sickly and he looked drastically deprived of sleep. She could have easily passed for a corpse, complete with a sickly pale complexion and dark circles under blood-shot eyes. When I was a baby, my eyes were as black as my hair and I recall my brothers calling me sickly for my pale pallor, though I was never ill. Not only that, but his formerly vibrant face was now marred by a sickly pallor and shadows under his eyes. Her figure was thin from undernourishment and her complexion a morose sickly gray. Unfortunately the blini was buried under a huge, bland, flavourless, sickly mound of mayonnaise that added nothing to the plate. In the corner of his room a sickly yellow glow was permeating through his wall, passing though it and away. She was filled with a sickly sense of fear and the realization that she was facing her own imminent doom. Without them the place was sickly quiet, but Adam was too tired to do anything about it. Show More Sentences The disconnect between his robust frame and sickly music mirrors the tension in the songs themselves, between quivering ephemera and hulking clangor. I developed a kinship with sickly romantic poets who couldn't play games. I left thoroughly turned-off by the film's weak, sickly ending. A hunter comes across a sickly gorilla, too weak to defend itself from the blows of his cleaver. It's unseasonably warm and sunny, as if God is trying to give New Yorkers a break and the sickly sweet smell of decaying flowers mixes with the acrid smoke. I found the white chocolate to be delicious at first but the Grand Marnier gave it a very sickly, sweet quality, which eventually became unbearable. The computer made a sickly beeping sound and a box popped onto the screen. They saw people bathing, relieving themselves and washing their clothes in the same waters used by sickly, flea-infested donkeys, pigs, cows and goats. According to the sushi chef, the second son is sickly and perceived to be too effeminate to lead the country. The blonde girl stepped forward leading a sickly boy of about two. He was a sickly grey color, his glasses were slightly askew, his hair was limp as if he hadn't even bothered with it that morning, and his coat and pants were rumpled. You squint a little at the sickly yellow light of a roadside diner, and rub your fingers against each other, thinking you can feel menu grease on them. She has a saccharine smile on her face and her voice is sickly sweet. Neruda suffered from cancer, and he looked unwell, with a sickly yellow glow. Seconds later my friend picked me up in front of the truck stop, his face a sickly shade of white. Priest and politician, sickly child and medical miracle, Bob Massie has had about an American of a life as anyone could imagine. His face was scabrous and lumpy, his flesh a sickly shade toward green. Many dogs are mangy, sickly or hungry, and often roam in packs. A baby that appeared weak or sickly at birth, or had even a minor birth defect such a cleft pallet, hair lip, or cleft foot, or was in some other way imperfect was killed. King was a sickly child, once bedridden for a year, and at the age of four he one day returned home silently after playing with a friend and crawled into bed. Show More Sentences Looking over, he saw a sickly, shocked expression on Jack's face. Variations in vineyard temperatures deliver flavours ranging from apples to tinned pineapple or, in extreme circumstances, to sickly shrivelled sultanas. So a bit of help from the sickly oil fields themselves is welcome. As his skin blackened, a sickly aroma exploded throughout the alley. He feels like himself, but is trapped in a dog's body, describing in graphic detail the many pungent, metallic, meaty and sickly smells all around him. Just round the corner we pass Camden Market, a hypermarket of henna and hemp, where the pavements are packed and there's a rather different sickly sweet smell in the air. Her pale face stood out against the warm, creamy colours of the pillows and sheets, some of the smaller bruises starting to turn the sickly colour of yellow and brown. It was soupy and gloopy, sickly and sour, and downright wonderful. The walls were the same sickly colour, the smell was the same of dense human aromas, and my feelings of determination and acceptance were one and the same. Usually I hated the sickly smell of vanilla but today it was soothing. Your Silent Nights and Joy to the Worlds manage to be special and festive without first being coated with a cubic kilometre of sickly sentimentality. Those with an aversion to sickly sentiment should look away now. It displays the essence of Chopin's music that surely Fokine desired and rescues it from the sickly sentiment and yards of tulle that Les Sylphides usually heralds. In the West Indies they make a really sickly sweet potato pudding. I found this novel to contain more bittersweet than sickly sweet parts. I am exceedingly melancholy of complexion, subject to consumptions and chilliness of my vital spirits, a slavish and sickly life being allotted to me in his city. He saw how people seemed thinner and underfed, almost sickly. Once I witnessed the dawn breaking as I went out to check a sickly lamb. But aside from is leaden, lackadaisical pace, the movie believes in a world so sickly sweet that it would give sugar gliders, fruit bats, and honey bees diabetes. I am now down to eight and a half stone and have a sickly pallor. Show More Sentences During the 19th century, it had a reputation in Britain as a restorative food for invalids and sickly children and was added to their diet in various forms. Jenny Jones was a thin woman now, and looked peaked and sickly. By the time I reach Armani up at the top I have that sated feeling, the one-too-many chocolates syndrome where once-luxurious fondant turns to sickly goo. We are bombarded with images of elderly people being frail and sickly. She takes it all in her stride, including his abuse of other staff and customers, but draws the line when he takes potshots at her sickly young son. Other research from the organisation highlights that millions of birds die each year because of cat predations, starvation and the weak and sickly condition of hatchlings. It reminds one of those 'liqueur' chocolates, grandly labeled, leading one to expect delicious gastronomic sensations, but which actually yield a sickly sugary concoction. It took me 15 years to realise that it was a tragic, sickly delusion. Highlights include the giant Creme Egg, the Jaffa Cake or the sickly Hobnob cream. If top-to-toe Pepto-Bismol is too sickly for you, team with black to give your girly glamour an edge. It prevents the four track EP from being no more than a sickly sweet sugar pill. As a child he was sickly and of such unpromising intellectual capacity that at one time the idea of cutting the entail was seriously entertained. How did your family react to seeing you so skinny and sickly looking? This John is sickly and sallow, his body lacking plasticity. The old maple stump shot sickly pink switches from her roots, new switches every year. They crept yearningly toward the little square of window. Like the brown bear, most ungulate prey of polar bears is likely to be young, sickly or injured specimens rather than healthy adults. Da Gama and his sickly brother eventually hitched a ride with a Guinea caravel returning to Portugal, but Paulo da Gama died en route. A sickly child, Gordon Childe was educated at home for a number of years, before gaining a private school education in North Sydney. The sunburn of my face, what little of it could be seen through a scraggly growth of beard, had faded to a sickly yellow. The Stevenson House museum is graced with a superb bas relief depicting the sickly author writing in bed. Show More Sentences Someone had attempted to make the foul ambience less offensive by liberal squirtings with a sickly sweet freshener. According to Cassius Dio Claudius became very sickly and thin by the end of Caligula's reign, most likely due to stress. Thou know'st, poor, patient, suffrin' dear, how she died, young and misshapen, awlung o' sickly air as had'n no need to be, an' awlung o' working people's miserable homes. The creaseless horizontal face of the giant smiled sickly, leering. Oppressive anaglyptas, sickly floral designs or ugly woodchip paper made us long for smooth painted walls that would not detract attention from our furniture or paintings. Listen, Fan. That cowardly, sickly little boy you fought for in the street, that day in Winnebago, showed every sign of growing up a cowardly, sickly man. The emaciated prisoners in the death camps were weak and sickly. He smiled a kind of sickly smile, and curled up on the floor. I was horrified by the awful sight, and my stomack moved sickly. The author disembarks from a Lake Champlain skiff at Burlington, which resembles a fishing-town on the seacoast, although there is a sickly, unbriny smell about. I noticed then that there was nothing to drink on the table but brandy, and nothing to eat but salted herrings, and a hot, sickly, highly peppered stew. Sickly eares Deaft with the clamours of their owne deare grones. Examples from Classical Literature It appeared to be surrounded by a cloud of vapour which gave off a sickly odour. To prune feeble plants and shrubs is like acting the part of dry-nurse to a sickly orphan. Red roses and sprays of sickly green vine formed the pattern of the carpet slipper. At Vernon, his sickly condition did not permit him, when a child, to go and dabble in the Seine. Is it on corn-husks you have been feeding your ewes that they look so sickly? Without these steadying influences these compositions of gradated masses would be sickly and weak. It was a shake-out from top to bottom, and the bloods on our division went white and sickly very fast. It was now autumn, and the most sickly season I had ever known in Peewawkin. You don't yet know what it is to be a sickly wretch, dependent on these skyey influences. In the shop the sickly man was studying his smudgy newspaper, now spread out largely on the counter. And as Raf pushed down another aisle, paralleling his course, he was conscious of a sickly sweet, stomach-churning stench. The insalubrity of the climate, the summer and autumn of the year 1809 being unusually sickly. There came over me a sense of sickly faintness, accompanied with acute, lancinating pains in the head and neck. Back to the British trenches also wafted the sickly fumes of lyddite and cresolite. She has spent hours in the hot kitchen trying to concoct some dainty that may titillate that sickly palate. The heat had been turned higher after the noon recess, the courtroom growing sickly with a mustiness of flesh, disinfectant, dust. Even the blazing suns of Naraka hadn't succeeded in burning the sickly yellow color off his face. Betwene thes two set youre witte, and se whether the Pers be lustye or sickly. The man who greeted me was runcible, with little strands of sickly hair twisted mopwise over his bald head. Any unsound or sickly cattle or beasts of poor quality were quickly disposed of by my advice, and replaced by fine specimens. Show More Sentences We proceeded to dress by the gloom of a couple sickly candles, but we could hardly button anything, our hands shook so. Give me that sickly syrup and an even sicklier John Lewis advert over yet another dose of weary cynicism any day. Most of them were undersized, some tough, some rather sickly. Though always sickly and delicate Dostoevsky came out third in the final examination of the Petersburg school of Engineering. The face of the latter was a sickly green, the gift of his fright. The worst-tempered bit of a sickly slip that ever struggled into its teens. My wretched passions were acute, smarting, from my continual, sickly irritability I had hysterical impulses, with tears and convulsions. I had a sickly dread, too, of being ridiculous, and so had a slavish passion for the conventional in everything external. Old dibs smiled a sickly smile, like he was unbending to a pair of kids. An they grew poor an' looked kind o' ragged an' sickly an' downhearted. A sickly smile came into his face, and seemed to accentuate its pallor. And over all lay a sickly, pallid ocher light through which the scourged clouds raced. It is a dull yet lurid orange in some places, a sickly sulphur tint in others. He was of a sickly color, and his thin, sandy hair seemed to bristle up with the intensity of his emotion. Our sickly lantern was guttering in a sooty stream of smoke. But their pictures are coarse daubs painted from the sickly fancies of their own diseased imagination. So he bolted his breakfast, a sickly, sloppy affair, as rapidly as they, and heaved a sigh of relief when he passed out through the kitchen door. We distort a dozen sickly trees into unaccustomed shapes in a little yard no bigger than a dining room, and then surely they look absurd enough. No more sickly sweet glasses of cheap mulled wine followed by the dreaded headaches. A whiff of musk, a puff of sandal-wood, and a breath of sickly jessamine-oil caught his opened nostrils. Show More Sentences Light and not at all doughy they were packed with sultanas and were sweet without being sickly. Code had gone a sickly pallor that looked hideous through his tan. And my feeble, sickly Aunt Jacoba, meseemed, was like-minded with me. Children who are sickly and puny may have much difficulty while teething. For all its apprehensiveness, a sickly grin ran round the group. All our blood in torrents to redye the sickly auroras of the earth! Unlike Midge, Wich was a sickly newborn and had to be nursed back to health by Mr Williams, of Gwen Llwyn, Llannor, Pwllheli. It lit, burned blue and sickly, and then budded into a robust flame. The apostrophe to the heroism of the soldiers is sickly and pale. I should have seen the sickly romance which ends in dupes and deceivers. One of his darkest miseries in the unhealthy morbid past days had been his hatred of being a sickly weak-backed boy whose father was afraid to look at him. When next I awoke, a sickly yellow light was filtering in on me. She turns in bed, too early to rise, the sky sickly yellow, red-rimmed. He inherited a deformed and dwarfed body and an incurably sickly constitution, which carried with it abnormal sensitiveness of both nerves and mind. Bulstrode's sickly body, shattered by the agitations he had gone through since the last evening, made him feel abjectly in the power of this loud invulnerable man. Sickly perfumes, as from the fan of an odalisque, swept over them. So when she was a sickly, fretful, ugly little baby she was kept out of the way, and when she became a sickly, fretful, toddling thing she was kept out of the way also. Find more words! 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