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Chemical sunscreens often make your eyes water, while "natural" physical versions best for sensitive types leave skin chalky and sickly-looking.
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Chemical sunscreens often make your eyes water, while "natural" physical versions best for sensitive types leave skin chalky and sickly-looking.
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It was a large room with an off-white tile floor and rough, sickly-looking green plaster walls.
I’m Still Standing SHOSHANA JOHNSON 2010
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In an effort to get sickly-looking cows to stand up for inspection by the FDA, the slaughterhouse allegedly shoots water up cows 'noses, uses a forklift to shove the animals, jabs them in the eyes, and then uses an electrical prod to shock the cows' rectums.
Waterboarding cows 2008
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In an effort to get sickly-looking cows to stand up for inspection by the FDA, the slaughterhouse allegedly shoots water up cows 'noses, uses a forklift to shove the animals, jabs them in the eyes, and then uses an electrical prod to shock the cows' rectums.
Waterboarding cows 2008
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It decided to make the game ' s villains a group of sickly-looking green pigs, in homage to the swine-flu pandemic then grabbing headlines.
Why We Can Nick Wingfield 2010
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Neatly packed into a colorful cardboard box is a plastic tray divided into sections containing: six Ritz crackers, six Ritz-sized slices of sickly-looking ham-like luncheon meat and six postage-stamp-sized slices of 2% Pasteurized Prepared American Cheese Product.
Abby Caran: That's Right Folks, Lunchables are Going Green. 2009
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Evie signed up, and on one of her shifts she encountered an undersize and sickly-looking bunny that volunteers had named "Little Old One."
Down the Rabbit Hole 2009
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The queen—or queen-to-be—was a frail, sickly-looking woman with thinning hair and deep lines in her face.
Sent Margaret Peterson Haddix 2009
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I remember all the warning signs for tornadoes (skies were always a rather sickly-looking green).
Sex With Ducks, PRIDE and The Gayification Of The Obama Administration 2009
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