Explore Sick through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like poorly. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Sick in a sentence
Related words
Sick meaning
- In poor health; ill.
- [with with] Afflicted by (a specific condition, usually medical).
Synonyms of Sick
Sick vertaling naar Nederlands
Using Sick
- The main meaning on this page is: In poor health; ill. | In poor health; ill. | [with with] Afflicted by (a specific condition, usually medical).
- Useful related words include: ill, sickish, queasy, nauseous.
- Possible Dutch translations are: zieke, zieken.
- In the example corpus, sick often appears in combinations such as: sick and, sick of, the sick.
Example sentences (20)
Most of these deals provide workers with four days of paid sick time and give them the option to convert three leave days into sick time to give workers a total of seven sick days a year.
It makes me sick, sick, sick!
Either they’re sick of each other, or they’re sick of not making enough money, or they’re sick of spending large parts of their life in transit.
He showed this by the following examples: : The categorical proposition "Some man is sick" has the same meaning as the existential proposition "A sick man exists" or "There is a sick man".
A new survey from Softworks found that over half the respondents (55%) believe it’s too easy for employees to get a doctor’s sick/fit note and just under three quarters (73%) believe doctors are providing sick/fit notes for longer than necessary.
Because it was sick time, the employee would fake being sick,” Denzler said.
I have done my best considering how sick I have been and have a right to take sick days.
I have so many sick days while some of my colleagues have very, very few because they have to use it for maternity and for when their kids are sick,” Ramroth said.
Over 44% have lied about their salary, and 31% admit to calling in sick to work when they weren’t really sick.
All Israeli women, children under 19, the elderly and sick would be released from Gaza during the first 45-day phase in exchange for the release of all Palestinian female, children, sick and elderly prisoners over 50 years old from Israeli jails.
Describing how he spent his time, Louis said: “I was sick, and I think nobody knew I was sick”.
Some cities already require more paid sick time, including Los Angeles, where employers must provide at least six paid days of sick leave.
And this is a virus that was taken from somebody who got sick but not very sick.
A New York City Housing Authority retiree ticked off his running tally: an ex-wife sick, a daughter sick, and three old friends dead.
As we sleep 3-feet apart from each other and with our cellmate sick, or our neighbor sick, we are just sitting time bombs waiting for when this is going to happen to me.
At about 6am in the morning, they've announced that there are further sick people on board and they have to test all the sick people on board prior to us disembarking without any further information," Pina Marchetta told Today.
But first, the Senate approved a $100 billion-plus of sick pay, emergency food aid, free testing and more money for Medicaid, despite Republican objections over the potential impact on small businesses saddled with a new mandate to pay sick leave.
But it was also the view that the coronavirus has moved on and also it’s OK if you get sick, because the more people who get sick, you are basically immune.
But that was before there was solid evidence that the virus was transmitted by sick people they showed any symptoms or realized they were sick.
Care of the sick and elderly: Please contact the parish office if you have a relative or neighbour sick at home or in hospital who would like to be visited or added to the first Friday calls.
Common combinations with sick
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- sick and 38×
- sick of 19×
- the sick 16×
- are sick 15×
- was sick 14×
- sick leave 13×
- of sick 12×
- sick or 11×
- very sick 10×
- get sick 10×