How to Use sicker in a Sentence

sicker

adjective
  • While all the boys had the virus, Henry was sicker than the others.
    Nataly Keomoungkhoun, Dallas News, 8 Apr. 2021
  • The more problems there are, the sicker the patient is likely to be.
    John C. Goodman, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Spring came, and my father got sicker and sicker, more and more frail.
    Emily Ziff Griffin, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Patients with the virus tend to be sicker than flu patients and require more staff.
    al, 10 Dec. 2020
  • The sicker the patient is, the higher their risk score, and the bigger the check insurers receive from the government.
    Hyacinth Empinado, STAT, 25 July 2024
  • Research has long shown that Black people live sicker lives and die younger than white people.
    Liz Szabo | Kff Health News, NBC News, 16 May 2023
  • Yet when the time came for her release, Miles said, Moshe urged her captors to take an older, sicker woman in her place.
    Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 28 Nov. 2023
  • In many, patients are younger and sicker than before, doctors say.
    Melissa Mahtani, CNN, 3 Aug. 2021
  • In the years since, pandemic, war and inflation have left a lot of the world sicker, poorer and angrier.
    Greg Ip, WSJ, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Nation/World Research has long shown that Black people live sicker lives and die younger than white people.
    Liz Szabo, Anchorage Daily News, 17 May 2023
  • Why, then, are employees sicker and more stressed than ever?
    Andrew Deutscher, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024
  • Already, doctors know that people who get both the flu and a cold at the same time tend to be sicker than those who are only infected with one virus.
    Alice Park, Time, 11 Oct. 2022
  • And this winter, the patients being hospitalized seem sicker than those from the spring, said Poe.
    al, 8 Dec. 2020
  • The kids are sicker than in past waves, and nearly all are unvaccinated.
    Caroline Catherman, orlandosentinel.com, 25 Aug. 2021
  • And if a patient becomes sicker or dies, the question of who is liable becomes an issue.
    Sanya Mansoor, TIME, 9 Feb. 2024
  • Those who are sicker subsidize those who are better off.
    Bill Cassidy, STAT, 5 July 2023
  • The sicker an individual, the higher the stakes — and the more common these errors become.
    Adam Rodman, STAT, 3 May 2024
  • Back in the spring, when the virus was ripping through long-term care facilities at a merciless rate, each patient who arrived seemed to be sicker than the next.
    Hanna Krueger, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Jan. 2021
  • In general, the sicker the member, the bigger the capitation.
    Don Lee, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2023
  • While the region has bright spots — its school test scores are routinely among the best in the state — its residents are poorer and sicker than most Virginians.
    Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2021
  • Thoughts change the world, and cynicism is turning ours into a meaner, sadder, sicker place.
    Jamil Zaki, TIME, 3 Sep. 2024
  • Timothy Schmitt, head of the transplant unit there, said his patients are waiting much longer and need to become much sicker now to receive a transplant.
    Malena Carollo and Ben Tanen, al, 22 Mar. 2023
  • That meant patients were sicker and staying at the hospital for longer leading to challenges the hospital had to overcome.
    Sarah Lapidus, The Arizona Republic, 15 Nov. 2022
  • In addition to age, Americans as a whole are getting sicker.
    Rachel Murphy, Verywell Health, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Long before the coronavirus pandemic, people on the South Side have been sicker and have had poorer health outcomes.
    Laura Garcia, San Antonio Express-News, 20 Apr. 2022
  • Across the region, doctors say that the patients coming into hospitals are now far younger and far sicker than before.
    New York Times, 29 Apr. 2021
  • Some rare individuals have gotten very ill the second time they’ve been infected, a few even sicker than the first.
    Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 24 Feb. 2021
  • The claim is that the sicker cohort can be protected separately.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2024
  • After all, Americans widely support the idea that sicker folks should be covered at the same rate as healthier ones.
    Wendy Netter Epstein, STAT, 3 Nov. 2023
  • During the press briefing, Barclay said those viral mutations didn’t make the chickens any sicker.
    WIRED, 17 Oct. 2023

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