Get to know Sickening better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like nauseating or nauseous.
Sickening in a sentence
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Sickening meaning
present participle and gerund of sicken
Synonyms of Sickening
Using Sickening
- The main meaning on this page is: present participle and gerund of sicken
- Useful related words include: nauseating, nauseous, noisome, queasy.
- In the example corpus, sickening often appears in combinations such as: the sickening, is sickening, sickening and.
Context around Sickening
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 10 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Sickening
- In this selection, "sickening" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, defeat, looks, hurl, attack, scene and body stand out and add context to how "sickening" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include actually quite sickening blow there and as a sickening body shot. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "sickening" sits close to words such as adebayo, advisories and aegis, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with sickening
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
He said: "This is sickening. (5 words)
Concern for others looks sickening though the sense of solidarity surfaces. (11 words)
May you repent your sins, and also receive a medical checkup because what you are following is sickening. (18 words)
As a result of the attack, Owen is rushed to the hospital, and when Jess rushes to Owen's room, she walks in to see a sickening scene: her angelic eight-year-old son eagerly slurping from a nearby blood bag. (41 words)
If Erdoğan’s sickening schmoozing of Putin, double-dealing over Ukraine, neo-Ottoman overreaching and on-off aggression towards fellow Nato member Greece are not sufficient proof of bad faith, then consider his other war – on his country’s democracy. (40 words)
In a video that went viral over the weekend in the wake of UPenn President Liz Magill resigning for her position after her disastrous Congressional testimony, Dr. Phil said that university leaders exhibited a “sickening smugness” on Capitol Hill. (39 words)
Example sentences (20)
A drunk Shannon Tristan Evans, of High Street in launched the sickening attack on his former partner over a row about access to his daughter.
Although the longtime team owner labeled the defeat “sickening,” he didn’t bluntly take aim at Prescott or head coach Mike McCarthy, whose job security is not in jeopardy.
Amanda Gearing, GMB Senior Organiser, said it was ‘sickening’ that Amazon workers in Coventry will earn just 8 pence above the National Minimum Wage come April 2023.
As a result of the attack, Owen is rushed to the hospital, and when Jess rushes to Owen's room, she walks in to see a sickening scene: her angelic eight-year-old son eagerly slurping from a nearby blood bag.
Brute Douglas Joyce, 35, is seen in footage punching his victim in a sickening attack after he'd followed him into a back room of a pub, leaving him seriously injured.
But it lasted only seven rounds as a sickening body shot left the American star unable to make it to his feet and continue, handing Garcia his first pro defeat.
But it’s sickening to use children to advance an ideology that advocates mutilating the body — especially since the changes being suggested are permanent.
But Mr Durr added: “By the time he delivers that actually quite sickening blow, there’s no question of self-defence.
Cavil blackmailing Ellen Tigh into sleeping with him was grim enough, but the Final Five's backstory made their tryst more sickening than initially thought.
Concern for others looks sickening though the sense of solidarity surfaces.
Detective Constable Matthew Collins from Warwickshire Police CID said: “During this ordeal Swinburn subjected these women to the most sickening violence and abuse.
He said: "This is sickening.
Home Secretary Suella Braverman said: “The sickening cases of David Carrick and Wayne Couzens made clear the need for vetting practices that are effective and consistent in identifying those not fit to serve.
If Erdoğan’s sickening schmoozing of Putin, double-dealing over Ukraine, neo-Ottoman overreaching and on-off aggression towards fellow Nato member Greece are not sufficient proof of bad faith, then consider his other war – on his country’s democracy.
In a video that went viral over the weekend in the wake of UPenn President Liz Magill resigning for her position after her disastrous Congressional testimony, Dr. Phil said that university leaders exhibited a “sickening smugness” on Capitol Hill.
In the haunting and sickening clip the terrorist uses a Jewish woman's phone to call his parents where he chillingly boasts that he 'is a hero' after murdering Israelis with his 'own hands'.
It doesn’t matter to the Naval command that the use of the foams is sickening the Japanese and innocent people around the world.
May you repent your sins, and also receive a medical checkup because what you are following is sickening.
Ms Anderson made headlines in when she bravely exposed a cowardly user who had made an anonymous account purely to hurl 'sickening' insults at her.
Never did we think we would have to face this sickening loss of grief and utter destruction,” she said.
Common combinations with sickening
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the sickening 18×
- is sickening 13×
- sickening and 12×
- in sickening 7×
- sickening to 5×
- of sickening 5×
- sickening attack 4×
- sickening that 4×
- as sickening 4×
- it sickening 4×