How to Use violently ill in a Sentence

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  • Navalny, one of Putin's fiercest critics, fell violently ill on a flight from Siberia to Moscow on Aug. 20.
    Barnini Chakraborty, Fox News, 8 Oct. 2020
  • Navalny fell violently ill aboard a flight from Siberia to Moscow on Aug. 20.
    Miriam Berger, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2020
  • After eating some of the mussels common to the area, half of the party became violently ill.
    David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Apr. 2022
  • Navalny, 44, became violently ill on a flight to Moscow in August.
    Tyler Van Dyke, Washington Examiner, 21 Dec. 2020
  • Activist Pyotyr Verzilov was flown to Berlin for treatment after falling violently ill in 2018.
    Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2020
  • One day in mid-October, Ramos ate the shelter’s undercooked lasagna and soon started feeling violently ill.
    Rick Jervis, USA TODAY, 2 Nov. 2022
  • Perhaps the most moving scene in the production is when Martin’s Molina tends to González’s Valentin, who has soiled himself after becoming violently ill.
    Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2023
  • People can get rashes from bathing in the river or become violently ill from drinking the water, suffering nausea and diarrhea at the height of the ceremonies.
    Jeremy Deaton, Scientific American, 10 Aug. 2020
  • Mitchell describes Dunn's final days as suspicious; one night after a dinner, Dunn fell violently ill.
    CNN, 3 Mar. 2021
  • Right on cue, sometime in the middle of that night roughly eight hours later, Hickman became violently ill with crippling stomach pain, and continuous vomiting and diarrhea.
    Gretchen Cuda Kroen, cleveland, 10 Oct. 2022
  • Without the slightest premonition of any issues with his health, Pyotr Verzilov, a Russian opposition activist, suddenly fell violently ill two years ago and slipped into a coma, a common problem for opponents of the Kremlin.
    Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2020

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