Sickly

Charlie is the primary caretaker for her sickly father Henry.

Dog owners were alerted as palm oil, which has a sickly-sweet smell, is irresistible to dogs and can cause illness.

Flooded coastal regions in 2047 Miami, where worshipers wear galoshes at the local synagogue, and skies are tinged a sickly yellow with pollution in 2057 India, where smugglers go out only at night when the atmosphere is less poisonous.

He also took it from his younger brother in utero, so that explains why Yoichi was born so sickly.

My hands were a sickly white as they clenched around the stem of the pickaxe, the sweat seeping into the wood and mixing with the dirt on my fingers.

Nolan observes each of these chapters with sickly wonder, as Jennifer Lame’s editing work and Ludwig Göransson’s clattering score lend a frightening momentum.

Not sickly floral either.

Not sickly sweet like some similar-flavoured mass produced pizzas, the sauce was instead rich and tomatoey.

She was a sickly child, always catching colds and coming down with infections, Guzman said.

The descriptions can be sickly sweet, distracting from the deeper strength of the work, and the reason some of the essays are capable of bringing tears to the eye: an intense pathos for others.

The forecast-busting reading on manufacturing -- the highest since 2012 -- reinforced the view that the world's second-biggest economy will bounce back strongly from last year's sickly growth, as businesses start up and people travel again.

There is a decadent cocoa flavour that gives this chocolate its ‘melt in the mouth’ quality, but of course, because of this, eating the whole reindeer in one sitting could present a sickly challenge for some.

The state attorney’s office has been operating for a long time as an independent entity, free to set traps for elected officials, using illegal spyware and brutal interrogations, occasionally of sickly and elderly relatives of witnesses.

Woo’s book recounts a daring feat: the successful flight north from Georgia in 1848 by an enslaved couple disguised as a sickly young white planter and his male slave.

You did everything right, and your tomatoes are looking sickly.

AI starts off timid and rather sickly: ice cream tacos, popping candy chocolate tarts.

Burch is very aware of the sickly, neurotic stereotype that often defines characters with asthma.

But repeated mass bleaching events have robbed the reef of its wonder, turning banks of once-vibrant corals to a sickly ashen white.

For a long time I genuinely didn’t realise what the sickly sweet smell was at the Waverley Steps bus stop until it finally clicked that it was related to all the mainly kids having a quick puff.

In “Greener Lean” (1978), the odd couple are a thick, too sugary green and a sickly yellow, and the deus ex machina is a drizzle of red in the lower right, which gives the yellow a little life and the green a little nuance.