AILMENT in a Sentence

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18 example sentences for AILMENT, such as:

1. as far as any improvement in his ailment goes.
2. No ailment was found, and he investigated again.
3. Furthermore, various ailments had begun to cry out.
4. His ailments include a mild heart attack and arthritis.
5. We learned how to bleed men to cure them of all ailments.

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 Meanings and Examples of AILMENT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
ailment
 n.  sickness; illness; affliction
Classic Sentence:
1  When the cow had the colic and the horse fell ill with a mysterious ailment which threatened to remove him permanently from them, Will sat up nights with them and saved them.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
2  If you encourage servants in giving way to every little disagreeable feeling, and complaining of every little ailment, you'll have your hands full.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
3  Fauchelevent had done well to retire early, if he were suffering, but that it was only a slight ailment.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—JEAN VALJEAN STILL WEARS HIS ARM IN A SLING
4  Besides, the physician might declare the ailment feigned; and Milady, after having lost the first trick, was not willing to lose the second.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 53 CAPTIVITY: THE SECOND DAY
5  No ailment was found, and he investigated again.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
6  A bodily disease, which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In X. THE LEECH AND HIS PATIENT
7  as far as any improvement in his ailment goes.
The Importance of Being Earnest By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In FIRST ACT
8  Even the strictest old ladies felt that a man who could discuss the ailments and problems of childhood as well as he did could not be altogether bad.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LII
9  Furthermore, various ailments had begun to cry out.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
10  While he had been tossed by many emotions, he had not been aware of ailments.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
11  His ailments, clamoring, forced him to seek the place of food and rest, at whatever cost.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
12  If I was one of the complaining sort, or ever made any fuss about my ailments, there would be some reason for it.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
13  However, instead of probing deeper into the subject of Chichikov's ailments, Murazov turned to Khlobuev.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
14  We learned how to bleed men to cure them of all ailments.
Anthem By Ayn Rand
Context  Highlight   In PART ONE
Example Sentence:
1  And the number closely matches a finding of an earlier international study that estimated some 10.1 per cent of people globally suffer from the ailment.
2  A surprising number of ailments are caused by unsuspected environmental factors.
3  His ailments include a mild heart attack and arthritis.
4  During the winter, respiratory ailments incapacitate many people.