had been sickening
- past perfect progressive of sicken.
Example Sentences
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“They’ve always just sort of been there,” she said, but added that she felt the wild speculation about Catherine had been sickening.
From New York Times ● Mar. 23, 2024
Untreated water supplies had been sickening people with pathogens like typhoid and cholera.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 15, 2020
The next day, Chinese authorities thousands of miles away announced they had isolated the new coronavirus that had been sickening residents of Wuhan, the capital of Hubei Province in China.
From New York Times ● Apr. 13, 2020
She told him William had been sickening all the day, and was now so delirious, that neither she nor his sister could keep him quiet.
From Thaddeus of Warsaw by Porter, Jane
