ILL in a Sentence

Learn ILL from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

387 example sentences for ILL, such as:

1. But Mother was ill, perhaps dying.
2. Many one says well that thinks ill.
3. A work ill done must be twice done.
4. I'm going to be ill, moaned Pittypat.
5. Such knowledge sat ill upon a bachelor.

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 Meanings and Examples of ILL
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ill
 a.  affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function
 a.  resulting in suffering or adversity
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  But Stuart felt guilty and ill at ease with her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
2  And should a gentleman be so ill bred as to indicate an interest in her, she must freeze him with a dignified but well-chosen reference to her dead husband.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
3  I'm going to be ill, moaned Pittypat.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
4  Pittypat was ill and in her bed when Gerald arrived the next afternoon.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
5  Men were so easily stirred when they had been ill.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
6  I won't be rude to him because of what he said, because-- It was rude of him to say it out loud--most ill advised--but it's--it's what Ashley thinks.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
7  If ever, ever he should be so ill bred as to try to take any liberties with her, she would show him.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
8  He wrote for three pages about the gallantry of the troops and then, at the end of his letter, mentioned briefly that Carreen was ill.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
9  She was not very ill and Scarlett was not to worry about her, but on no condition must she come home now, even if the railroad should become safe.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
10  Such knowledge sat ill upon a bachelor.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
11  They are very ill but we must hope for the best.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
12  Ellen was ill, perhaps dying, and here was Scarlett helpless in Atlanta with a pregnant woman on her hands and two armies between her and home.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
13  But Mother was ill, perhaps dying.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
14  She ordered the calf killed, because he drank so much of the precious milk, and that night everyone ate so much fresh veal all of them were ill.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
15  And to make matters worse, Wade was ill with a sore throat and a raging fever and there was neither doctor nor medicine for him.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
Example Sentence: (177 in 12 pages)
16  The mother was in great distress when her baby became ill.
17  Honesty may be dear bought; but can never be an ill pennyworth.
18  She was forced to retire early from teaching because of ill health.
19  The hospital has issued new guidelines on the treatment of mentally ill patients.
20  In the mid-nineteenth century, Dorothea Dix began to campaign for humane treatment of the mentally ill.
21  Truth hath a good face, but ill clothes.
22  The fear of ill exceeds the ills we fear.
23  Many one says well that thinks ill.
24  Is the good or ill choice of a good or ill wife.
25  The good or ill hap of a good or ill wife.
26  He that is ill to himself will be good to nobody.
27  It is an ill wind that blows nobody good.
28  Within a few days she had become seriously ill, suffering great pain and discomfort.
29  The good or ill of man lies within his own will.
30  A work ill done must be twice done.