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Example sentences for "sickish"

Lexicographically close words:
sickening; sickeningly; sickens; sicker; sickest; sickle; sickles; sicklied; sickliness; sickly
  1. A click of teeth was followed by a sickish grunt as the man lurched over.

  2. But it made me feel a trifle faint an' sickish notwithstanding this spit-in-the-eye business.

  3. And he leaned back and shut his eyes and took his pipe in his hand, and I guess he drawed on it more than he meant to, for he looked bad, sickish and white round his mouth as anything.

  4. Sez he, smilin' a dretful wapeish smile: "It is sickish tastin' stuff.

  5. In fact, when he said that, I felt a kind of a sickish feeling inside of me, like maybe I had done something wrong.

  6. Once more there was in the atmosphere a sickish odor.

  7. Three minutes more and the watchman was asleep--sound asleep, while a strange, sweet, sickish odor seemed to fill the atmosphere about him.

  8. They saw it in the sentimental mannerisms of Lenore Honiwell, whose sickish emotionalism slipped pat into the burlesque.

  9. They could not, to save their lives, get through a dramatic scene together without giving the observers a sickish feeling.

  10. I felt a drowsy sensation stealing over me as the sickish sweet smell from the furnace increased.

  11. As I looked at the bluish-yellow flames they gradually changed to a beautiful purple, and a sickish sweet odour filled the room.

  12. It had a sickish sweet odour, but that did not impress me at the time.

  13. Her belly ached with a kind of sickish hunger.

  14. Her flat face was alight with the sickish reflection of a memory that was growing dim.

  15. His clothed body dissolved in her immediate recognition of his flesh, and she had a sickish sensation as of life stirring in her.

  16. The next instant he felt himself grasped in the strong arms of the man, and a cloth that smelled strongly of the strange, sweetly sickish odor was pressed over the lad's face.

  17. Suddenly he became aware of a peculiar odor in the air--a sweet, sickish odor.

  18. I tried to lift myself to see more as shrieks of childish laughter caught my ear, but there was a sickish heat in my dry skin, an evil taste in my throat, and a sharp pain in my left shoulder; and I fell back again.

  19. The skies were black and all the spring verdure was turned to a sickish gray-green.

  20. Lilly, who still had a slightly sickish feeling.

  21. She experienced a sickish sensation of vacancy and incorporeality, as if she might melt through the wall into her room.

  22. She was far from understanding these feelings, but she did understand that she felt suddenly sickish and quite faint; and she thought practically of mamma's little flask of brandy in her bag somewhere, if only she could find it.

  23. A spoonful or so of the yellow concoction, and the sickish feeling vanished, and she felt instead rather devilish and fast, like the blondined villainess in a play.


    24. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sickish" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    bad; down; faint; ill; indisposed; rocky; seedy; sick; sickly; unwell