Sentence examples for sickly from from inspiring English sources

His father was a factory manager for the American Can Company; his mother was frail and sickly from a childhood illness.

Munch himself was sickly from birth; he said later that he grew up feeling "like a boat built of hopeless material, of old rotten wood".

23 Sep-23 Oct Given that the average Libran can turn sickly from exposure to a clashing colour scheme, it's probably time to upgrade your lovely home.

She lost Eddie, the first, long before the family ever went to Washington, either to consumption or an undetected cancer, as he'd been sickly from the start.

The novella seems sour and sickly from the word go; Conrad was rummaging around in what he calls, with unforgettable nastiness, "the dead cats of civilization," and Coppola takes a little while to join him in feline hell.

Throughout his adult life, Boyle was sickly, suffering from weak eyes and hands, recurring illnesses, and one or more strokes.

Sickly babies from Guguletu flood the pediatric wards in nearby Mowbray and Cape Town, their tiny bodies wracked by the illness.

Yet his career can be seen as a literary success story of the sickly boy from the Midlands who by talent, tenacity, and intelligence became the foremost literary figure and the most formidable conversationalist of his time.

On the contrary, the very acuteness of his scrutiny serves to drive any hint of sickly sentimentality from the compassion with which he imbues his characters, mankind and life itself.

Indeed sickly flavours, from tutti frutti to candyfloss, seem expressly designed to lure rather unsophisticated palates.If California raises its smoking age and renders e-cigarettes forbidden fruit, more youngsters will inevitably puff away in secret.

Once a sickly child from an unintellectual family, she saw her life as a triumph and felt contempt for anyone who "didn't do what they truly wanted to do".But she was needy and narcissistic, anxious for the approval of others and incapable of being alone.