How to Use terminally ill in a Sentence

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• The story follows a terminally ill father who sets out to find the ideal home life for his son to live.
  — Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 1 May 2024
• Chaichi said the tour made a strong case for an early release process for terminally ill inmates.
  — oregonlive, 26 Jan. 2023
• Mark MacDonald is on a mission to buy more time for his terminally ill wife.
  — oregonlive, 25 Feb. 2023
• Bluestein said the amendment means that other terminally ill people in the Northeast can take advantage of the law.
  — Theara Coleman, The Week, 3 May 2023
• Bluestein said the amendment means that other terminally ill people in the Northeast can take advantage of the law.
  — Theara Coleman, The Week, 3 May 2023
• In the series, it was explained that the character was terminally ill and decided to die in a blaze of glory.
  — Joe Otterson, Variety, 20 Apr. 2023
• The film follows a young woman swept up in a new romance only to learn her partner is terminally ill.
  — H. Alan Scott, Newsweek, 15 Jan. 2025
• Enlarge / Eight terminally ill teens in hospice cope with their fate by telling scary stories in The Midnight Club.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 31 Oct. 2022
• Only to learn that Richard's father, Lord Brightlingsea, is terminally ill.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 13 Dec. 2023
• More from Carolyn Hax From the archive: An abusive ex is terminally ill.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 13 Nov. 2023
• The dogs would be neutered and put up for adoption – but any that are terminally ill, infectious or aggressive would be killed.
  — Harriet Marsden, The Week Uk, theweek, 5 Aug. 2024
• Rigney stars as Kevin, one of the terminally ill teen residents of Brightcliffe Hospice.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 21 Sep. 2022
• There, he’s greeted by a smiling stranger, Josef (Duplass), who claims to be terminally ill and looking to make a video diary for his unborn child.
  — A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 30 July 2024
• His final Sounds of the 70s came in October, a few months after it was announced that Walker was terminally ill.
  — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 31 Dec. 2024
• The relentless acts of retaliation could be explained away by the twin tragedies at the centre of the story: the rape and murder of a teenage girl, the suicide of a terminally ill cop.
  — Hazlitt, 17 May 2023
• Flanagan is also behind Midnight Club, based on the young adult book by Christopher Pike, about a group of terminally ill teens who make a secret pact.
  — Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Aug. 2023
• Gere and Schrader have spent months working on makeup and lighting that will inform how the audience will view the terminally ill Fife.
  — Stephen Rodrick, Variety, 9 May 2024
• Just a few weeks after Alex Santos married the love of his life in his hospital room, the 25-year-old terminally ill cancer patient has died.
  — Emily Deletter, USA TODAY, 11 Aug. 2023
• Her best friend’s terminally ill husband is about to be admitted to the same hospital where a friend of theirs was recently killed: bashed in the head with a heavy vase while resting in his room.
  — Tom Nolan, WSJ, 14 Dec. 2023
• Many fear that the scope of legalised assisted dying would expand beyond the terminally ill, as has happened in Canada and the Netherlands.
  — The Week Uk, theweek, 12 Oct. 2024
• In 2007, the Today show reported after the fact that Reubens had taken a two years away from the spotlight and relocated to Florida to care of his terminally ill dad.
  — Stephanie Webber, Peoplemag, 31 July 2023
• The title essay concerns the journey toward death of her terminally ill friend, Sooki.
  — Teresa M. Hanafin, BostonGlobe.com, 4 June 2023
• But discussing it ahead of time can lessen some of the stress, should a situation arise when a partner gets sick and requires chronic care or becomes terminally ill, Rubin said.
  — Jeanne Sahadi, CNN, 20 July 2024
• Outside of suicide, the only way for a terminally ill person in Ohio to hasten their own death is to refuse life-prolonging treatments or to stop eating and drinking.
  — Tim Botos, USA TODAY, 18 Feb. 2025
• One woman who knows that pain has begun helping others in a very special way: taking photos of terminally ill pets.
  — Janet Shamlian, CBS News, 10 Aug. 2022
• Katie’s terminally ill father has died—physically—but his brain is making mischief on the web.
  — WSJ, 1 Sep. 2022
• That path led him to focus on providing compassionate care for the terminally ill in hospice.
  — Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025
• Rask’s grandfather, Jon Ireland, was terminally ill and was being put on life support.
  — Tyler Dragon, USA TODAY, 8 May 2023
• Rask’s grandfather, Jon Ireland, was terminally ill and was being put on life support.
  — Tyler Dragon, USA TODAY, 8 May 2023
• Reporters found that, contrary to his assertions, most of the patients Kevorkian assisted had not been terminally ill, and fewer than half had complained of chronic pain.
  — Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press, 28 June 2024