How to Use seasick in a Sentence

seasick

adjective
  • The storm made her seasick.
  • People who have helped plan the journeys say many get seasick.
    — Shibani Mahtani, Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2020
  • But what, say, if crew members are seasick, forcing you to guide the boat through calmer waters?
    — Mark D'arcy, Forbes, 28 June 2021
  • The sea was rougher than expected, and every single one of them got seasick.
    — Wes Siler, Outside Online, 24 Apr. 2021
  • There were two little boats with crew on them and camera equipment and a child — and people were seasick.
    — Randee Dawn, Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 2021
  • So some of the people in the crew had seasick pills and these bands around the wrist and so on to be able to work on the set for a whole day.
    — Christian Holub, EW.com, 9 Oct. 2022
  • But some Allied landing craft and amphibious tanks sank in swells, and men who stayed afloat were seasick.
    — National Geographic, 3 June 2019
  • Someone with the ability to be away from home for 155 nights, doesn't get seasick, and enjoys the salty air.
    — Catherine Garcia, The Week, 5 Nov. 2022
  • Waves can easily top 30 feet and turn the hardiest sailors into seasick wretches.
    — The Washington Post, The Denver Post, 30 Mar. 2017
  • Some players were worried about getting seasick, but the water was relatively calm for the ferry ride.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Nov. 2021
  • Bad weather has forced the convoy of ships now carrying them to take a detour after high waves caused some of the exhausted migrants aboard to be seasick.
    — Pablo Gorandi, chicagotribune.com, 14 June 2018
  • On the yacht, Cherry mostly feels seasick while Brigitte and Daniel play together in the water.
    — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Formulated with rosehip oil and seasick thorn oil, this sunless tanner feels just like a body moisturizer.
    — Kasey Caminiti, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2021
  • In the middle of a corner, though, the City does heel over on its tires like a seasick Citroen 2CV.
    — Michael Jordan, Car and Driver, 9 July 2020
  • Steadman was feeling seasick, so Thompson gave him a pill that turned out to be psilocybin, the psychedelic drug.
    — Steve Appleford, SPIN, 11 May 2026
  • That can be especially troublesome for travelers prone to getting seasick.
    — Nathan Diller, USA Today, 19 Feb. 2026
  • The top 10 floors of the Foshay building are evacuated with the tenants feeling seasick from the swaying building.
    — Star Tribune, 9 Oct. 2020
  • Many sailors deserted—traumatized by their brush with death, or just from being horribly seasick on the rough passage from Montevideo.
    — Larissa MacFarquhar, The New Yorker, 29 June 2020
  • And perhaps most important of all, this Strat does a good job at staying in tune after doing a whammy dive, so feel free to go a little crazy and create some warbly, seasick sounds.
    — Henry Robertson, Popular Mechanics, 27 Apr. 2017
  • My mom convinced us to spend our day in Cozumel seeing Mayan ruins, while everyone else got seasick doing upside down shots at Señor Frogs.
    — Priya Krishna, Bon Appetit, 10 July 2017
  • Coral reefs that surround the city help to provide a natural wave breaker, stabilizing it and preventing inhabitants from feeling seasick.
    — CNN, 19 June 2022
  • Worries that the cows would get seasick or be reluctant to cross the bridge onto the platform proved unfounded, and the animals have adjusted to the change of scenery and are producing milk on their new floating home.
    — Braden Phillips, Smithsonian, 13 July 2019
  • My grandfather described the amphibious crafts, the crossing of the English Channel, the seasick soldiers vomiting in their helmets, the spikes in the sand.
    — Emily Meg Weinstein, Longreads, 19 Dec. 2017
  • For instance, in an oil portrait of Sutro, which hung in the bar, the San Francisco philanthropist and politician looks a little seasick because of a poor past restoration.
    — Matthias Gafni, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Mar. 2021
  • But since cars don’t get seasick, RoRos aren’t designed to be super stable—that would be expensive, which would drive up the cost of shipping and eat into those all-important margins.
    — Andrew Lawrence, Popular Mechanics, 14 Nov. 2022
  • Trembling instability abounded in the song’s guitar sample, along with a seasick chorus and lyrics deconstructing heartbreak in anxious detail.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2019
  • Bay shoots nearly every scene as if he's just been injected with several kinds of lightning, the camera swooping and corkscrewing at seasick angles over freeways and fireballs and blaring California sunshine.
    — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 8 Apr. 2022

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