Sickens is an English word. Below you'll find 9 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Sickens meaning
third-person singular simple present indicative of sicken
Using Sickens
- The main meaning on this page is: third-person singular simple present indicative of sicken
- In the example corpus, sickens often appears in combinations such as: sickens me, it sickens.
Context around Sickens
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 2 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 9 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Sickens
- In this selection, "sickens" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 22.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, park, flu, bacteria, people and millions stand out and add context to how "sickens" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include borne bacteria sickens more than and devotion which sickens the target. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "sickens" sits close to words such as aakash, aanholt and aardwolf, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with sickens
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
It sickens me that we let our political views divide us so much. (13 words)
The sick twisted stuff they have on those shows especially South Park sickens me. (14 words)
But viruses mutate all the time, and most mutations end up not affecting how the virus spreads or sickens people. (20 words)
For clairsentience, we have the minor devotion, which sickens the target with unreliable visions of the future, imposing -2 on atk, weapon damage rolls, saves, as well as skill and ability checks. (32 words)
Every week, scientists, researchers and medical experts report new findings about how the virus moves, how it sickens and how the disease it causes can be treated. (27 words)
The food-borne bacteria sickens more than 1 million people annually in the United States, most commonly presenting as temporary fever, nausea, diarrhea, vomiting or abdominal pain. (27 words)
Example sentences (9)
It sickens me that we let our political views divide us so much.
The sick twisted stuff they have on those shows especially South Park sickens me.
But viruses mutate all the time, and most mutations end up not affecting how the virus spreads or sickens people.
Every week, scientists, researchers and medical experts report new findings about how the virus moves, how it sickens and how the disease it causes can be treated.
For clairsentience, we have the minor devotion, which sickens the target with unreliable visions of the future, imposing -2 on atk, weapon damage rolls, saves, as well as skill and ability checks.
In an extraordinary rant, directed at the 30-year-old, on BBC radio 5 Live, Toshack said: “It saddens and sickens me.
Statistics show that the flu sickens millions of Americans, kills tens of thousands, and results in billions of dollars in medical expenses and sick days.
It sickens me every time I see a judge hand out a lighter sentence and probation for these type of offenses.
The food-borne bacteria sickens more than 1 million people annually in the United States, most commonly presenting as temporary fever, nausea, diarrhea, vomiting or abdominal pain.
Common combinations with sickens
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- sickens me 4×
- it sickens 3×