SICKNESS in a Sentence

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267 example sentences for SICKNESS, such as:

1. Hope deferred makes the heart sick.
2. He who never was sick dics the first.
3. She nursed the sick boy back to health.
4. He who was never sick dies the first fit.
5. The very thought of it makes me feel sick.

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 Meanings and Examples of SICKNESS
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
sickness
 n.  state in ill health; disease
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  I don't know anybody round here's had more sickness than Zeena.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VIII
2  By contrast with his own miserable existence, they were well-fed, well-clothed and looked after in sickness and old age.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
3  The people of the town were suffering hardship, privation, sickness and death as severely as the rest of the Confederacy; but Atlanta, the city, had gained rather than lost as a result of the war.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
4  I told them there was sickness in the house, the typhoid, and it was death to move them.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
5  This was the end of the road, quivering old age, sickness, hungry mouths, helpless hands plucking at her skirts.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
6  She felt a pang of almost physical sickness at the thought of so much money.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
7  Carol worried about their struggle, but she forgot it in the stress of sickness and fear.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
8  The period of daily sickness crawled into an endless time of boredom.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
9  Everybody that go near that camp catch the sickness but me and the priest.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XV
10  His toes stuck out of his shoes, and he hadn't shaved for a long while, and his eyes was awful red and wild, like he had some sickness.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: VI
11  Grandmother Majauszkiene had lived in the midst of misfortune so long that it had come to be her element, and she talked about starvation, sickness, and death as other people might about weddings and holidays.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
12  I was exceedingly feeble; made so as much by the kicks and blows which I received, as by the severe fit of sickness to which I had been subjected.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
13  He had rid himself of the red sickness of battle.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
14  With a deadly sickness at her heart, she remembered how he had looked at Emmeline's hands, and lifted up her curly hair, and pronounced her a first-rate article.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
15  He has undergone hardship and sickness, as his haggard face says clearly.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
Example Sentence: (57 in 4 pages)
16  The farmer called the vet out to treat a sick cow.
17  The sick and wounded were evacuated from the war zone.
18  He who was never sick dies the first fit.
19  Fall sick and you will see who is your friend and who is not.
20  It was too late to save the sick woman, and she died.
21  I misheard the word "sick" as "thick".
22  She nursed the sick boy back to health.
23  If my child is sick and I leave work, I'm a bad employee.
24  They refused him sick pay when he was off ill, which is a shoddy way to treat an employee.
25  He was sick in the evening, but the following day he was better.
26  The very thought of it makes me feel sick.
27  He who never was sick dics the first.
28  The healthful man can give counsel to the sick.
29  Hope deferred makes the heart sick.
30  She has devoted all her time to helping the sick.