Sentence examples for make themselves sick from inspiring English sources

Don't they make themselves sick with excitement?

With multiple-choice tests, the teachers didn't have to make themselves sick in the head by grading all weekend.

People with Munchausen syndrome go to incredible lengths to appear sick or actually make themselves sick: they have been known to bleed themselves to become anemic, fake seizures, take laxatives to induce diarrhea, inject themselves with bacteria to produce fevers or rub chemicals into their skin to cause rashes.

"We want this to be as comfortable as possible, and so we've designed it from the start for sensitive people," says Wong. "One of the things we found, that we discovered very early, was that allowing people free motion — allowing people to just walk wherever they want and do whatever they want, they're quickly going to make themselves sick.

He told us that he and his friends usually make themselves sick right after drinking the shakes because "then you really fly".

This was to keep them from going to the bathroom to make themselves sick, and if they had to use the bathroom, there was a mandatory open-door policy.

They got drunk together, made themselves sick smoking cigars in freezing cold common rooms and learned that love bites ache for days.

Some 4% said they had made themselves sick to control their weight, while 3.4% reported using laxatives for the same purpose.

Urge, splurge, purge: we are sucked into a cycle of compulsion followed by consumption, followed by the periodic detoxing of ourselves or our homes, like Romans making themselves sick after eating, so that we can cram more in.

The survey revealed that men have high levels of anxiety about their bodies and that some resort to compulsive exercise, strict diets, laxatives or making themselves sick in an attempt to lose weight or achieve a more toned physique.

So now we're dealing with miles of roads around every supermarket being chock-a-block with sheepish, over-zealous consumers parking up to return the goods that were never needed, like someone making themselves sick on the morning of a hangover.