How to Use sickness in a Sentence

sickness

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  • He died from an unknown sickness.
  • With the triple threat of flu, Covid-19 and RSV, get ready for more sickness.
    — Wsj Staff, WSJ, 7 Dec. 2023
  • The whole point of getting a fever is to slowly cook the sickness out of your body, killing off the pathogens in the process.
    — Max Bennett, Discover Magazine, 8 Feb. 2024
  • The reason for this: mankind has been freed from sickness and pain.
    — Vulture, 20 July 2023
  • Not long after, the horse stabled next to it came down with the same sickness.
    — John Last, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Oct. 2022
  • In Hasakah, hundreds of civilians are still camped out in a mosque, where the stench of fear and sickness fills the air.
    — Washington Post, 22 Jan. 2022
  • Simply put, all of our stories end the same, with sickness and death.
    — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 22 July 2022
  • Even those who have sinned can rely on the Lord to guide them to heal in times of hardship and sickness.
    — Elizabeth Berry, Woman's Day, 2 May 2022
  • The Sky swooned following the break for the summer Olympics, in large part due to sickness and injuries.
    — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 22 Sep. 2024
  • In the hope of fending off sickness, her mother had her drink red wine—one small glass a day.
    — Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2021
  • Look it up by your ZIP code Is 'eclipse sickness' real?
    — Marina Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 8 Apr. 2024
  • Because as George kicked the sickness and breathed easier, his team has done the same.
    — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 8 Nov. 2022
  • Iris is still dealing with her time sickness, and Barry is not aware of that at this point.
    — Chancellor Agard, EW.com, 11 Nov. 2021
  • The sickness comes as O’Rourke was in the middle of a 49-day campaign that was supposed to take him to more than 65 counties in Texas.
    — Dallas News, 28 Aug. 2022
  • Nearby, a 3-year-old boy wailed between bouts of sickness and reached out for his aunt’s hand.
    — Natalie Kitroeff Adriana Zehbrauskas, New York Times, 19 Nov. 2022
  • There was a weariness to Mare that went beyond fatigue to a deep soul-sickness.
    — Don Aucoin, BostonGlobe.com, 27 July 2022
  • Nearby, a three-year-old boy wailed between bouts of sickness and reached out for his aunt’s hand.
    — Natalie Kitroeff, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Nov. 2022
  • The mesh panel is a nice touch that lets your dog see out the front only, which can help prevent car sickness.
    — Rachel Klein, Popular Mechanics, 21 July 2023
  • This is the second show Aerosmith has cancelled this week due to Tyler’s sickness.
    — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 5 Dec. 2022
  • The result can be an increase in sickness among the surviving rats.
    — WIRED, 7 Oct. 2023
  • The bear in question appeared to be healthy and showed no signs of sickness or disease, Tucker said.
    — Ashley Paige, Peoplemag, 17 June 2023
  • The isolation, and witnessing mass sickness and death, was a lot to bear.
    — Brooklyn White, Essence, 1 Aug. 2022
  • Through him, when all is completed, there will be no more sickness or pain.
    — Blair Donovan, Country Living, 18 Oct. 2022
  • That was not the only time Bonifield worked through pain, sickness and injury.
    — Binghui Huang, IndyStar, 19 Oct. 2022
  • My own group of besties have gone through divorce and sickness, big wins and life-changing losses.
    — Geralyn Broder Murray, USA TODAY, 14 Jan. 2022
  • Georgia’s rate of flu-like sickness has been dropping since reaching a peak in the week ending Nov. 5.
    — Shelia Poole, ajc, 22 Dec. 2022
  • Adalja said the vast majority of sickness due to Covid-19 in the country is due to the delta variant.
    — Anna Kaplan, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2021
  • With fire and broadsword came pestilence, in the form of a sickness called Morrisania fever, which carried off many Refugees.
    — Ian Frazier, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024
  • As a young woman, my grandmother had spent weeks afloat at sea, cramped into a ship with little food and much sickness.
    — Zining Mok, Longreads, 22 Oct. 2024
  • In short, this means Germany’s high rate of sickness cost its economy about €26 billion last year, according to VFA.
    — Byryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 1 Nov. 2024

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