Sentence examples for like a sick from inspiring English sources
Nortel is a like a sick old man who has been lying in a hospital bed for years".
The source of the story's title is revealed in Rose's summation of her mother's marriage to her father: She married who she didn't like, a sick man, his spirit already swallowed up by God.
"They treated me like a sick person.
That would just sound like a sick joke now.
"You sound like a sick cat," she snapped at him.
"It feels like a sick dream," he said.
Flaubert spotted the English party—hideous, he wrote, old Mrs Bracebridge looking like a sick parrot.
I hear a sneeze from the kitchen, stifled like a sick cat's.
One, supposedly from The Nation, declares that Olivieri is "very like a sick-sentimental school-girl".
Ms. Skraastad exudes Delia's wary sense of exhausted disgust at her stalled career, but the character feels like a sick-soul-of-the-culture type borrowed wholesale from the Didion oeuvre.
In "On Seeing the Elgin Marbles" (published posthumously), Keats wrote, "My spirit is too weak mortality/Weighs heavily upon me like unwilling sleep,/And each imagin'd pinnacle and steep/Of godlike hardship, tells me I must die/Like a sick Eagle looking at the sky".
