Sentence examples for plain sickly from inspiring English sources

In a somewhat improbable but very satisfying twist Ms. Tillyard transforms his wife, Kitty, in real life a plain, sickly and put-upon creature, into a pre-feminist who with the help of Rothschild secures financial independence from her remote and imperious husband.

Bristol's favourite biscuit – out of all the biscuits, remember, on Earth – is the Rich Tea, which is the sickly, pale cousin of the plain digestive.

Hardwick described her at Yaddo: "She was a plain sort of young, unmarried girl, a little bit sickly.

This requires setting in the fridge, which is annoying at a time of year when just about everything requires refrigeration, and fails to find much favour with testers, who declare it both "sickly" and "too soft" – the snap of plain chocolate is more popular.

Type I: sickly outfits that can't spare the cash.

Very sickly.

So sickly!

A sickly childhood.

Its economy is sickly.

Sickly, dependent in-laws.

A sickly yellow.