Sentence examples for sickly word from inspiring English sources

Despite the catchiness of the formulation, this seemed to me useful only as a means of artificially bulking out a sickly word count).

Yakov, the hero, is a cobbler with a sickly son.

The end result she described as nauseating and "too sickly for words".

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.

In this rather sickly passage the word is even capitalised, but I doubt that Waugh wanted us, while the golden lads were splashing and romping, to substitute the word "Hooper" for it.

"Tearful", "sickly sweet", "potent": all words used to describe this year's John Lewis Christmas advert.

Its close cousin Mediocre Flyweight Ultra Bold is almost too sickly-sweet for words, a semi-invalid given to tiresome late-afternoon vaporings.

There's a reason the words "pale" and "sickly" are often used interchangeably.

He would give me a sickly look and proclaim in words from a Texas and Louisiana childhood, "Jeanie-pot, I feel knee-walking, commode-hugging sick".

Both books feature lettering by Jack Morelli, which delivers devilish words in black balloons, sickly green and jagged pronouncements of the damned, and narration that helps to pull a page into focus, a tableau for you to live in.

It takes its name from its sickly colour - chloros is the Greek word for green.