Example sentences for: sickly

How can you use “sickly” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Of course, I was a sickly child, and one who wrote all the time.

  • Despite its ironic detachment, the film draws you into its heroine's sickly state: Breathing oxygen from a canister inside a high-tech igloo, she dwindles to nearly nothing, the modern incarnation of the Incredible Shrinking Man.

  • Colgate Baking Soda & Peroxide is a sickly, opaque green.

  • The very title of the work is tinged with regret, since its protagonist is presented to us not as lighthearted Clarissa but as the older Dalloway's somewhat shrinking, sickly missus.

  • His wife is stupid, and his children are sickly.


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