Blade plunged down, knew a sickening moment of realizing he was going to hit the black surface, then struck it.

For a sickening moment he felt them sag and tear under his weight.

That was one of those sickening moments so familiar to travelling Whites last season.

There were sickening moments when he felt as if he might not make it.

For a sickening moment he thought: What if we turned completely upside down, and the door is now under us?

The horse seemed to suspend itself in the air for a sickening moment, so steep was the hillside.

On shore, the sickening moment of panic had passed.

There were sickening moments of panic when Nick thought they had lost the line to the opening.

In fact, looking up at it gave him a sickening moment of vertigo.

There was a sickening moment when Nestor thought he might fail.