How to Use sickening in a Sentence

sickening

adjective
  • We heard the squeal of brakes and a sickening thud.
  • Each new sickening tale opens the door for more women to share their own.
    — Nina Bahadur, SELF, 13 Oct. 2017
  • Once, twice… and then her scalp peeled away with a sickening, wet sucking sound.
    — William Earl, Variety, 1 Oct. 2024
  • These sickening events have become far too normal in our world.
    — Tara Suter, The Hill, 14 Dec. 2025
  • Great mold-like blooms appear that are at once stunning and sickening.
    — Christopher Orr, The Atlantic, 23 Feb. 2018
  • As more sickening details have emerged, the horror has grown.
    — Author: Jeffrey Gettleman, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Apr. 2018
  • The yearling scrambled back up its tree, then let go and fell, landing with a sickening thud.
    — Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024
  • This entire sickening process just shows how far the once-great franchise has fallen.
    — Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2024
  • What unfolds is a violent chase full of sickening twists and life-or-death stakes.
    — Allison Degrushe, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Dec. 2025
  • Even Michael, who was there via video call, covered his eyes to avoid seeing the sickening scene.
    — Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 19 Sep. 2023
  • To know that people are going to be laughing about it is a sickening feeling.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 16 June 2023
  • Andi's heart gave a single, sickening jolt that emptied her lungs.
    — Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 15 Apr. 2026
  • The portal that allows the players to go from school to school is also sickening.
    — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 9 June 2025
  • The sickening wake-up call of fighter jets wheeling overhead.
    — CNN, 9 May 2017
  • Everyone in the Rose Bowl felt the sickening churn in the depths of our guts.
    — Tyler R. Tynes, Los Angeles Times, 2 Jan. 2024
  • To many of those who knew what went on inside the structure, the spectacle was sickening.
    — Gisela Salim-Peyer, The Atlantic, 30 Jan. 2026
  • The ceaselessly rolling, jolting boat was sickening to him, too.
    — Joyce Carol Oates, The New Yorker, 16 Mar. 2025
  • To come in and have [designers] fight over my Polaroid would be so sickening, or even a judge on the show.
    — Mckinley Franklin, HollywoodReporter, 27 Sep. 2025
  • Nothing prepared me for that sickening sense of foreboding and the guttural fear that gripped me that day.
    — Pamela Munster, Time, 25 Sep. 2017
  • In the real world, there’s already a sickening theater for the deaths of unarmed black people.
    — Zito Madu, GQ, 24 Apr. 2018
  • The concept of this many women vying for West is somewhat sickening to me.
    — Emma Specter, Vogue, 27 May 2026
  • There are a lot of looks, and a sickening amount of clothes, but little in the way of collections that stir the heart or challenge the eye.
    — Maya Singer, Vogue, 18 July 2019
  • That felt heavy and caked on and frustrating, annoying and sickening to have that [makeup on].
    — Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 June 2017
  • Joe threw Ospreay into the barricade to the sound of a sickening thud.
    — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 24 May 2026
  • So far, research shows fake weed has made its way into the state, sickening or killing Floridians.
    — Cindy Krischer Goodman, Sun Sentinel, 19 Feb. 2023
  • The song comments on the sickening glee that’s been spread in some corners in the aftermath of Kirk’s death.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The unedited, close-up footage is too sickening for television and newspapers to show.
    — Alex De Waal, Foreign Affairs, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Just a sickening day for Jameson Williams’ managers.
    — Michael Salfino, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2025
  • While half of the flavors are fan-favorites and the other half sound sickening, all of the jelly beans are edible.
    — Sabrina Weiss, Peoplemag, 9 July 2024
  • His decision is a sickening betrayal both of the Kurds and his oath of office.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 8 Oct. 2019

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