adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a sickening thud
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His head hit the floor with a sickening thud .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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His head hit the door with a sickening thud.
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the sickening smell of rotting meat
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There was a sickening crash and the sound of broken glass as the two trains collided.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And the sickening clamour of street noises beyond the cloister wall, the sickening odour of those who made them.
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At sunrise, the sickening reality dawned that bullets, his bullets, had mown down human beings.
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Many broiler chickens suffer a similar, sickening fate.
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She'd heard sickening tales of barbarous Gestapo torture, and of prisoners who were never seen again.
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The sickening feel of woollen gloves being pulled on to your hands and hitting and blunting your fingertips so touch was lost.
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With a sickening reverberation the words stayed in her mind all the way back to her room.