verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a sickening thud
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His head hit the floor with a sickening thud .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
sickening thud/crash/sound etc
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Her heart took up a sickening thud.
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One pitched out, hitting the ground with a sickening thud.
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Then she landed on the Market Square flagstones with a sickening crash to lie motionless.
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Then, with a sickening thud in her solar plexus, she understood.
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They heard screams, kicks, the sickening thud of a punch, and the ogre roaring Solper's name.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"Some of the recent attacks on horses in this area are enough to sicken anyone," a police spokesman said.
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A gas attack in the main train station sickened hundreds of people.
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The smell of the blood sickened her and she ran out of the room.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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I had heard them complaining of how nauseated they felt, how the very thought of food sickened them.
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It sickened her that she could have made love with Tom and be able to remember nothing of it.
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Many of our people sickened and died, and we buried them in this strange land.
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The stench of blood and waste sickened him.
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They tell me their communities are sickened by this latest outrage.