How to Use sickness in a Sentence

sickness

noun

• 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
• 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
• 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
• There is a real sickness in this country as guns are NOW the Leading cause of death for our children!
  — Shannon Larson, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Mar. 2023
• It could be caused by anxiety and stress, a long workout, or sickness.
  — Eleni Thomas, refinery29.com, 16 Oct. 2022
• The sights of athletes vomiting when leaving the Seine or reports of sickness due to E.coli was hardly unpredictable.
  — Jules Boykoff, TIME, 8 Aug. 2024
• Love, war, sickness, health, money, growth, volition, death.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 30 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024