Sickly Sentence Examples

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  • He was fragile, narrow-shouldered and of a sickly constitution.

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  • Saturday December 18th I am feeling really well, not too sickly at all thank goodness!

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  • Consult a veterinarian prior to using the medication on an elderly, young or sickly cat.

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  • Traumatized and sickly, she was rescued and today lives with other orphan chimps at the new island sanctuary.

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  • It's sweet, but not sickly and the youngest members of the family will love this comforting story.

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  • Instead, they are light green in color, and appear a little sickly.

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  • It's all sickly sweet R&B DJ's and Ritzy chicks round here.

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  • Two sickly ghouls, in the form of downstairs hippie neighbors disrupt Art and Guff's already somewhat untidy lives.

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  • The antagonism between the "black" and the "white marquess" (the latter being the nickname given to Carmarthen in allusion to his sickly appearance), which had been forgotten in their common hatred to the French policy and to Rome, revived in all its bitterness.

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  • He was a weak and sickly child of poor parents, and from his sixth to his fifteenth year, when he was left an orphan, he worked on a farm.

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  • Anthony Smith was the seemingly aloof uncle who moved the audience when he finally showed his love for his sickly son.

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  • The house in Victoria Street where the sickly baby Lawrence was born.

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  • Saturday December 18th I am feeling really well, not too sickly at all thank goodness !

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  • It 's sweet, but not sickly and the youngest members of the family will love this comforting story.

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  • It 's all sickly sweet R&B DJ 's and Ritzy chicks round here.

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  • He was a sickly baby, who was baptized quickly, underlining the fact that he was not expected to survive.

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  • Two sickly ghouls, in the form of downstairs hippie neighbors disrupt Art and Guff 's already somewhat untidy lives.

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  • Avoid kittens that seem sickly, fatigued, or overly afraid.

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  • It has mucus around the eyes, spits up mucous and is kind of sickly looking.

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  • If your cat seems sickly and has an ongoing condition, you may want to consider having her tested as a general precaution.

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  • Of course, you don't want to look sickly, either, so it's important to utilize shades of pink that don't wash you out.

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  • Although most neutrals are considered "safe"" for the majority, redheads should avoid drab tones to keep from appearing washed out and sickly.

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  • Red shadows tends to add a sickly contrast to otherwise healthy complexions.

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  • For some reason, the green tint of the highlighter made me look sickly.

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  • It not only can make a face in the mirror look ugly, depending on the light, it can quickly reduce the atmosphere of a bathroom and turn it sickly green in appearance.

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  • It must have a sheltered wall, but in a place not too dry and sunny, or the leaves turn a sickly yellow.

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  • Very pale skin may look washed out and sickly against a bright blonde, whereas darker skin is best complimented by warmer hair colors.

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  • Conditions such as excessive oiliness, seborrhea, or even normal dandruff are all indications of a sickly scalp.

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  • A well chosen color can be fitting and glamorous, but a poor color choice can be sickly and unattractive - knowing how to choose a dye color can help you find the best shade for you.

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  • Hence, the individual becomes malnourished and sickly.

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  • Born in 1918, Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar was an incredibly sickly child.

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  • His lengthy battle for health as a boy informed his fiction, but after a sickly youth, he grew into a hale, even athletic man, notably tall and broad.

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  • In their place, mothers find an ill-tempered, irritable creature, or a sickly fairy child or even an object like a log of wood.

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  • His frame was sickly and wasted with disease, yet when clad in his red cardinal's.

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  • Her gaze traveled from the gloomy fortress to the sickly sky to the creature before her, whose fangs seemed to have grown even longer.

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  • The poor and sickly viewed Tiyan as a kingdom of refuge, where magical waters prevented sickness and death to any who drank from them.

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  • Trapped in his Dungeon of Love, prisoners are swamped by sickly sweet caresses.

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  • Failure to degauss can lead to colors becoming sickly, or in extreme cases, complete color inversion.

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  • For the public it wanted heroic figures which perpetuated racist myths or sickly sentimental kitsch.

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  • The Earl of Carrick, now heir to the throne, was a sickly man with a pronounced limp.

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  • The flickering green luminescence sent sickly shadows flowing over the decaying metal walls.

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  • A sickly pallor overspread his countenance, and he trembled like an aspen.

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  • The narrator is a sickly and middle-aged man called ' je ' attended by a very loyal family retainer called Celeste.

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  • I know, a song about a young child that doesn't stick in the throat or drown in sickly sentimentality.

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  • Everywhere she looked, sickly colors bounced from bubbling test tubes, and dark corners gave suspect shrieks.

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  • One of the first things that Ragazzo noticed about the house in Coppice Row was the sweet rather sickly smell which hung over everything.

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  • The somewhat sickly smell of procrastination is in the air once again.

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  • I shall never forget the strong sickly smell of bodies which had been in the hot sun for a fortnight.

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  • All I 'm getting from Dave at the moment is a really sickly grin.

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  • Last night, the ruins north of town started to glow a sickly green.

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  • Bad breath - The most characteristic of all symptoms, "ketosis breath" ranges from a sickly sweet to a metallic taste and is usually quite pungent even to those around you.

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  • The inhabitants, notwithstanding the unhealthiness of their climate, are a strong and athletic race, belying their yellow and sickly appearance.

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  • Spiders abound, from a giant species to one of the minutest dimensions, and the tree-bug is always ready to make a destructive lodgment in any sickly tree-stem.

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  • By his first consort he had thirteen children, of whom two sickly sons and eight healthy daughters survived him.

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  • The tiny, withered, sickly body of Bem was animated by an heroic temper.

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  • Sickly men and some stores and animals had been got away before Dec. 8, which lightened the task in prospect.

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  • But seeing a stranger the sickly, scrofulous-looking child, unattractively like her mother, began to yell and run away.

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  • Discolorations are among the commonest of all signs that a plant is sickly or diseased.

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  • The principal symptom may show itself in general pallor, including all cases where the normal healthy green hue is replaced by a sickly yellowish hue indicating that the chlorophyll apparatus is deficient.

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  • It is probably only sickly adults or young children of the human race who can be actually killed by a scorpion's sting.

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  • It was a direct attack upon the constitution which, to use the words of Istvan Szechenyi, first " startled the nation out of its sickly drowsiness."

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  • Henry's elder brother Arthur, a notoriously sickly youth of scarce fifteen, had been married to Catherine, daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella, but had died less than five VIII.

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  • Some of the garden varieties of the woodbine are very beautiful, and are held in high esteem for their delicious fragrance, even the wild plant, with its pale flowers, compensating for its sickly looks " with never-cloying odours."

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  • This work, the Biathanatos, is an attempt to show that "the scandalous disease of headlong dying," to which Donne himself in his unhappy moods had "often such a sickly inclination," was not necessarily and essentially sinful.

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  • Small tuberous shoots, comparable on a large scale with the bulbils of Lycopodium Selago, are occasionally produced in the axils of some of the persistent leaf-bases; these are characteristic of sickly plants, and serve as a means of vegetative reproduction.

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  • Prematurely born at Buda on the ist of July 1506, it required all the resources of medical science to keep the sickly child alive, yet he developed so precociously that at the age of thirteen he was well bearded and moustached, while at eighteen his hair was silvery white.

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  • The acacias and the Rosaceae yield their gums most abundantly when sickly and in an abnormal state, caused by a fulness of sap in the young tissues, whereby the new cells are softened and finally disorganized; the cavities thus formed fill with liquid, which exudes, dries and constitutes the gum.

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  • Sickly and unfruitful trees may often be revived by bringing up their roots within 5 or 6 in.

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  • Sickly animals should be at once isolated, and their cages and enclosures disinfected, whilst as a matter of routine the enclosure in which any animal has died should be cleansed, and according to the results of post-mortem examination, which should be made in every case, appropriate measures of disinfection employed.

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  • The duke, a sickly and vacillating man, said nothing to Castlereagh, and took no steps, and Canning did not enlighten his colleague.

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  • Those eyes lit up the whole of her thin, sickly face and made it beautiful.

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  • He fancied he saw something pathetically innocent in that frightened, sickly little face.

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  • In person Propertius was pale and thin, as was to be expected in one of a delicate and even sickly constitution.

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  • The third bride was sickly and unsympathetic, and from her Sigismund soon lost all hope of progeny, to his despair, for being the last male of the Jagiellos in the direct line, the dynasty was threatened with extinction.

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  • During his short reign the young king, a sickly youth and of feeble understanding, was the mere tool of his uncles Francis, duke of Guise, and Charles, cardinal of Lorraine, into whose hands he virtually delivered the reins of government.

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  • It any state most plants feed greedily upon it, and when pure or free from decaying wood or sticks it is a very safe ingredient in composts; but it is so liable to generate fungus, and the mycelium or spawn of certain fungi is so injurious to the roots of trees, attacking them if at all sickly or weakened by drought, that many cultivators prefer not' to mix leaf-mould with the soil used for permanent plants, as peaches or choice ornamental trees.

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  • The climate of the district, although cooler than that of Calcutta, is very unhealthy, and the people have a sickly appearance.

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  • Four years of army life had changed him from a pale and sickly lad into a man of superb figure and health.

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  • Among these hypothetical beings, the creations of a sickly scholasticism, hollow abstractions without life or reality, the particular trinity in which the historical Gotama was assigned a subordinate place naturally occupied the most exalted rank.

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  • Princess Mary went back to her room with the sad, scared expression that rarely left her and which made her plain, sickly face yet plainer.

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  • The removal of weakly, sickly, overcrowded and gross infertile shoots is usually, however, a matter about which there can be few mistakes when once the habit of growth and the form and arrangement of the buds are known.

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  • The dual sub orbs were dim, casting a sickly light over Hell.

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  • He feebly moved his leg and uttered a weak, sickly groan which aroused his own pity.

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