have been sickening
- present perfect progressive of sicken.
Example Sentences
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For looking back would have been sickening to the heart.
From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury
“Still, he must have been sickening for it before he came down here.”
From Clayhanger by Bennett, Arnold
The little airs he put on and the painful striving to assume the easy carriage of a man born to a dignified place in life would have been sickening had they not been ludicrous.
From The Sea Wolf by London, Jack
She must have been sickening with it that night as you fetched her to the tree.
From The Village by the River by Bedford, H. Louisa
