How to Use ail in a Sentence

ail

verb

• But, in some parts of the world, the long form of the game is ailing.
  — Ed Caesar, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
• What ails the health of the richest nation in the world?
  — Madhukar Pai, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2024
• At the end of the trailer, an ailing Deadpool lies on the ground and asks for help.
  — Dan Heching, CNN, 12 Feb. 2024
• Oh, the mom of the boy with the ailing pink kite, smiled as Deale fastened a red tail to her son’s kite.
  — Jenna Portnoy, Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2024
• The Cherubs The flashiest of the Angels’ rookies have been on the injured list or ailing in some way.
  — Sarah Valenzuela, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2023
• Since his death, questions have swirled around what ailed Beethoven and his true cause of death.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 22 Mar. 2023
• Her ailing mother wanted to move south for the blue skies.
  — Sahana Jayaraman, AZCentral.com, 27 June 2023
• Market forces were thought to be the cure for whatever might ail people and the planet.
  — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 24 Mar. 2023
• Adding Udoka isn't anything close to a panacea for the woes ailing the Rockets.
  — Michael Shapiro, Chron, 25 Apr. 2023
• There is a single pump, that looks rusted and ailing, with water spitting out of it to the ground.
  — Sara Sidner, CNN, 25 Mar. 2023
• Aging research doesn’t tend to be about finding the one cure that fixes all that may ail you in old age.
  — Ellen Quarles, Fortune Well, 7 July 2023
• Strolls in the garden are good for the soul and for spotting diseases, pest invasions and ailing plants.
  — Dan Vierria, Sacramento Bee, 31 Jan. 2024
• If the virus spreads in the U.S., Ohio could be a hot spot because of its aging and ailing population.
  — Cincinnati.com, 8 Mar. 2020
• His assessment of what ails the Times will leave third-degree burns.
  — Nr Editors, National Review, 22 Dec. 2023
• And there’s an ailing parent in the book, and my mother passed of cancer in 2016, after two years of struggling.
  — Reggie Ugwu, New York Times, 15 Dec. 2023
• To me, this meant leaving no stone unturned in the effort to understand and cure what ailed each of my patients.
  — Thomas Grogan, STAT, 31 Jan. 2020
• The reverse stock split is a bid to boost WeWork’s ailing stock price and save its shares from getting delisted.
  — Samantha Delouya, CNN, 18 Aug. 2023
• Moritz had hired a nurse to help care for his ailing mother and sought to deduct a portion of the expenses from his taxes.
  — Harrison Smith, Washington Post, 18 July 2023
• There is no easy cure for what ails the U.S. financial system.
  — John S. Tobey, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2023
• But job cuts also won’t cure what ails the global bank by themselves.
  — WSJ, 20 Nov. 2023
• Soon after, Wu left the industry to care for her ailing mother in San Jose.
  — Robert Ito, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2020
• For now, Bergeron’s teammates have no choice but to wait for their ailing leader.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Apr. 2023
• Nor is there cross-party agreement on what ails the system.
  — Dan Balz and Clara Ence Morse, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Aug. 2023
• For Hawn, the Academy Awards double as a metaphor for what ails society.
  — Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 8 Mar. 2023
• These were not ailing kittens or tiny humans, but shoes.
  — Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Oct. 2023
• When Albert brings the ailing Shug into their home, Celie cares for her tenderly and the two become friends.
  — Arthur Knight, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Dec. 2023
• Jackson's ankle didn't appear to ail him at all during the second half.
  — Omari Sankofa Ii, Detroit Free Press, 2 Apr. 2021
• France's journey to the ailing Astros' rotation is a long and winding one.
  — Michael Shapiro, Chron, 24 May 2023
• In the wild, an ailing elk would likely be killed by predators, and that’s not exactly a pleasant way to go either.
  — Krista Stevens, Longreads, 1 Apr. 2024
• Derrick threw himself into his role as an assistant at Mt. Eden, but had to take a step back last spring with his father’s health ailing.
  — Joseph Dycus, The Mercury News, 1 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024