How to Use ailing in a Sentence

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• That means a healthy 65-year-old has the same chance of getting a shot as an ailing 85-year-old.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Mar. 2021
• Donigan has a plan to put the ailing pharmacy chain back on track.
  — Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 15 June 2022
• At this point, Hill isn’t sure what else the city could do to keep ailing restaurants downtown afloat.
  — Fixing Our City Podcast, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Dec. 2022
• Their ailing mother, Karon Fay, also heard the screams and ran out to see her only son suspended in the air in the camper.
  — Ethan Ward, USA TODAY, 27 Dec. 2022
• In front of their peers, two children played a brother and sister in search of milk to cure their ailing mother.
  — Domenica Bongiovanni, The Indianapolis Star, 16 Mar. 2022
• Ho reportedly met Chan, a nurse, when she was hired to care for an ailing Leitao, who died in 2004.
  — Zen Soo and Kelvin Chan, USA TODAY, 26 May 2020
• Revival calls to mind the return to vigor of our ailing spirit.
  — Washington Post, 15 Oct. 2020
• This starts with Team Emery, which Miller branded and embraced to help ailing children.
  — Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 15 Sep. 2020
• Krull left Chicago in 2020 to care for an ailing relative and is no longer handling the Kelly case.
  — Jason Meisner, Chicago Tribune, 10 Aug. 2022
• For an already ailing sector, the pandemic has been a body blow.
  — Niharika Sharma, Quartz India, 6 Apr. 2020
• Then, in a mark of disdain for the ailing Qing empire, America broke that promise.
  — The Economist, 11 July 2020
• The Karr girls basketball team played a second game without its ailing head coach.
  — Chris Dabe, NOLA.com, 20 Jan. 2021
• The toxic tabloid culture even went as far to accuse Markle and the news of the Oprah interview for contributing to Prince Philip's ailing health.
  — Neha Prakash, Marie Claire, 9 Apr. 2021
• Moffo put Porkchop’s poop around an ailing lilac tree that hadn’t been blooming.
  — Pam McLoughlin, Hartford Courant, 26 Sep. 2022
• The law does not provide benefits for those who take time off to care for an ailing relative.
  — Bob Egelko, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 July 2022
• In the premiere, a little boy tries to help his ailing grandfather; a group of women grapple with life on the U.S.-Mexico border.
  — Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2021
• What did an ailing offensive line need during the bye week, other than rest?
  — Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 28 Oct. 2020
• One voted by proxy while caring for her ailing 86-year-old mother.
  — Time, 27 Dec. 2022
• An ailing 75-year-old Vietnam veteran who left his house to fetch an oxygen tank from his truck.
  — NBC News, 19 Feb. 2021
• Chemical odors persist in some places, and anecdotes of dead wildlife and ailing pets are mounting.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Feb. 2023
• These provide a soothing sensation to your ailing wrists and hands.
  — Chris Hachey, BGR, 14 May 2021
• About two years ago, Payne made the decision to quit her job to become a full-time homecare aide for an ailing relative.
  — Nicole Goodkind, Fortune, 8 Apr. 2021
• Fortune and his sister were called home to Texas in Spring of 2020 to help care for their increasingly ailing father.
  — Jeff Campagna, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Dec. 2021
• Many fire victims are elderly and an unknown number of them are in ailing health.
  — J.d. Morris, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Feb. 2021
• These chews by Zesty Paws are known to give dogs relief from ailing anxieties and daily stressors.
  — Kendall Cornish, Travel + Leisure, 2 Apr. 2021
• The coronavirus pandemic took a big bite out of ailing restaurant chain Steak n Shake’s revenue in the first quarter.
  — Patrick Danner, ExpressNews.com, 8 May 2020
• The ailing tech sector also saw its profits sink sharply amid the e-commerce slowdown and return to office trend.
  — Bywill Daniel, Fortune, 10 June 2023
• Camilo is a lonely, wistful man, middle-aged and ailing, ready for his inevitable end.
  — Charlie Lee, The New York Review of Books, 28 Sep. 2023
• Her parents stayed behind to care for her ailing grandparents, said Khusid, 18.
  — Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2022
• Multiple rumors about the queen’s ailing health—and false alarms about her death—were fueled by social media.
  — Chris Stokel-Walker, WIRED, 8 Sep. 2022

Last Updated: 28 May 2024