How to Use sic in a Sentence

sic

verb

• Hopefully that is conveyed in thr [sic] faces in the pictures here.
  — Stephanie Wenger, Peoplemag, 2 Mar. 2023
• Then, in the third scene, Hobbs seeks vengeance against Shaw for an airport-search prank by sicking the London police on him.
  — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 2 Aug. 2019
• No word yet on whether Villeneuve is going to sic the Fremen on Warner Bros.
  — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2021
• Look, there should be clawbacks for Gary (sic) Becker and the others who explode these banks.
  — CBS News, 19 Mar. 2023
• And that the internet should sic itself on she who committed such a sin, and her alone?
  — Amy Odell, Cosmopolitan, 19 July 2016
• As the unarmed, handcuffed man vomited and begged for his life, police threatened to sic a dog on him.
  — NBC News, 18 Dec. 2020
• Amazon should pay these costs (plus) and not have them bourne (sic) by the American Taxpayer.
  — Ella Lee, USA TODAY, 11 Aug. 2020
• The college students stood across the street from the courthouse when police doused the protestors with tear gas, sic dogs on them and arrested many of the students.
  — Shannon Rae Green, USA TODAY, 24 Jan. 2022
• Well, right now, federal law does not prevent (sic) us at VA to look at that as an option for veterans.
  — Polly Washburn, The Cannabist, 31 May 2017
• There are thousands of years of human history to sic an extraterrestrial hunter on.
  — Vulture, 4 Aug. 2022
• The pain can effect [sic] your mental health, ability to work, relationships, your fertility, the list goes on.
  — Julie Mazziotta, Peoplemag, 10 Mar. 2023
• Lorenz retweeted his post. Reporting the name of someone who already has a public profile and also uses a twitter account to sic hordes of trolls on other people is not doxing.
  — Grayson Quay, The Week, 19 Apr. 2022
• To threaten to sic the police on that community is another form of inciting violence.
  — refinery29.com, 29 Apr. 2020
• All of these people are the latest victims of an internet-age crime called swatting, in which bad actors sic the police on a fellow internet user who has angered, offended, or simply annoyed them.
  — Emma Grey Ellis, WIRED, 22 Aug. 2019
• Harvey Weinstein survived by placing financial pressure on his victims and offering incentives to everyone else to keep quiet; the markets that made him a millionaire enabled him to hire literal spies and sic them on Rose McGowan.
  — Sarah Jones, New Republic, 8 Dec. 2017
• Don't worry: The three major credit reporting agencies don't report nonpayment on medical bill information for 180 days, and hospitals are unlikely to immediately sic a creditor on you anyway.
  — Jennifer Chesak, Health.com, 10 May 2021
• Hopefully that is conveyed in thr [sic] faces in the pictures here.
  — Stephanie Wenger, Peoplemag, 2 Mar. 2023
• Then, in the third scene, Hobbs seeks vengeance against Shaw for an airport-search prank by sicking the London police on him.
  — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 2 Aug. 2019
• No word yet on whether Villeneuve is going to sic the Fremen on Warner Bros.
  — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2021
• Look, there should be clawbacks for Gary (sic) Becker and the others who explode these banks.
  — CBS News, 19 Mar. 2023
• And that the internet should sic itself on she who committed such a sin, and her alone?
  — Amy Odell, Cosmopolitan, 19 July 2016
• As the unarmed, handcuffed man vomited and begged for his life, police threatened to sic a dog on him.
  — NBC News, 18 Dec. 2020
• Amazon should pay these costs (plus) and not have them bourne (sic) by the American Taxpayer.
  — Ella Lee, USA TODAY, 11 Aug. 2020
• The college students stood across the street from the courthouse when police doused the protestors with tear gas, sic dogs on them and arrested many of the students.
  — Shannon Rae Green, USA TODAY, 24 Jan. 2022
• Well, right now, federal law does not prevent (sic) us at VA to look at that as an option for veterans.
  — Polly Washburn, The Cannabist, 31 May 2017
• There are thousands of years of human history to sic an extraterrestrial hunter on.
  — Vulture, 4 Aug. 2022
• The pain can effect [sic] your mental health, ability to work, relationships, your fertility, the list goes on.
  — Julie Mazziotta, Peoplemag, 10 Mar. 2023
• Lorenz retweeted his post. Reporting the name of someone who already has a public profile and also uses a twitter account to sic hordes of trolls on other people is not doxing.
  — Grayson Quay, The Week, 19 Apr. 2022
• To threaten to sic the police on that community is another form of inciting violence.
  — refinery29.com, 29 Apr. 2020
• All of these people are the latest victims of an internet-age crime called swatting, in which bad actors sic the police on a fellow internet user who has angered, offended, or simply annoyed them.
  — Emma Grey Ellis, WIRED, 22 Aug. 2019

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024