Sentence examples for sickly with from inspiring English sources

There were big bags of straw all around and the air was sickly with the smell of unwashed children.

I always take the edge off anything sickly with a little salt; it brings out the flavour.

The financial environment for banks and brokerage firms remains sickly, with past profit generators like trading, underwriting and advising all slumping.

Sickly with shingles for England's disastrous first Test ("one for 131 but seven dropped catches, mind you"), Bedser was dropped for the second Test.

The quartet of celeste, piano, vibraphone and ondes martenot achieved a well-defined tonal colour, sweet without being sickly, with Jacques Tchamkerten ensuring the textures were not, for once, awash with the ondes' metallic waves.

The night mist is sickly with cigarette smoke and pungent liquor; the glistening of headlights on rain-slicked roads, the screech of a wan accordion, and the scrape of a favorite old record are symbols of evil and harbingers of death.

Maurice was a sickly child with a speech impediment.

The economic future of a sickly nation with a shrinking population cannot be bright.

It covers the wall in a sickly yellow, with shadowy figures sketched out.

A sickly recluse with impeccable manners, he praised cruelty and strength.

She had been a sickly child, with asthma keeping her from school.