Sentence examples for sickly at from inspiring English sources

Albie was malnourished and sickly at the time, his mouth covered in sores, his leg and hoof badly infected.

It makes a person look tired at best and sickly at worst, and it makes the actual eye look smaller".

Weak and sickly at the start going to spry and powerful at the end implies that she's using her magic to make herself stronger and fight her aging diseases.

Bay was part of the plan for 2012, and he will leave his imprint on the season, even if it is only to be removed for a pinch-hitter, as he was after three sickly at-bats on Tuesday.

Alexander, a sickly child, at first was a poor student.

It's sweet, yes, but not sickly and, at 4% abv, ideal for a kids' birthday tea (for you, obviously, not the nippers).

But this was the second time since they signed a peace accord in Zambia's capital, Lusaka, last July that they have been coaxed to return to the table to revive their sickly effort at peace.

Even the language he uses is weirdly secondhand: a bizarre mélange of Hemingwayesque action prose and romance-novel clichés that manages to feel faux macho and sickly sweet at the same time.

Although sickly sweet at times, and occasionally assuming too much knowledge on the part of the reader, this timely memoir is told with such warmth and breathless excitement that Boyt's excesses are easily forgiven.

Sure, Palin still likes to take aim at "liberals" and the "lamestream media" and, of course, President Barack Obama, with whom she seems to be rather sickly obsessed (at CPAC she screeched out "Barack Obama, you lie!" and compared him to Bernie Madoff).

Meanwhile, the formula-fed babies are isolated and sickly, suckling at anything they can reach their tiny mouths to, desperate for the comfort and nutrition from their own mothers.