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How to use mal in a sentence

10 example sentences · noun

Mal means illness, affliction. Example: “Mal rider, shortboard or lid everyone surfs like a kook sometimes.”

Examples of mal by meaning

nounIllness, affliction.

  • a grand mal seizure

More sentences with mal

  • Mal rider, shortboard or lid everyone surfs like a kook sometimes.2001, realsurf.com message board. From the entry lid
  • It is unparalleled for the mal de tête.” He jumped up and took her cup.1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 58. From the entry solicitously
  • Mal said, “How you doing then?” “Me?2007, Martin Amis, Vintage Amis, Vintage, →ISBN, page 30. From the entry onna
  • The mal du siècle was a motion sickness.1996, Hillel Schwartz, Century's End: an orientation manual toward the year 2000, revised and abridged edition, New York: Doubleday…. From the entry mal du siècle
  • Beaumarchais n’eut aucun mal, avec le concours de Rochford sans doute, à mettre ces deux coquins hors d’état de nuire.1977, Frédéric Grendel, translated by Roger Greaves, “The Sex of the Dragoon”, in Beaumarchais: The Man Who Was Figaro, New York, N.Y.…. From the entry squiblet
  • Petit mal seizures are also known as absence seizures, which cause a loss of consciousness that is usually brief and barely noticeable.2010, Carol Turkington, Joseph Harris, The Encyclopedia of the Brain and Brain Disorders, 3rd edition, Infobase Publishing, →ISBN, page 289. From the entry petit mal
  • Later, friends told me of the dangers of absorbing fright illness and mal aire from the quebrada, especially from eggs and other curing paraphernalia discarded there.2003, Joan Koss-Chioino, Thomas L. Leatherman, Christine Greenway, Medical Pluralism in the Andes, page 209. From the entry quebrada
  • These can be considered as authentic Esperantisms — as can constructions which in a sense move in the opposite direction: suni, furiozi, fervori, malĉasti, ebli, and others.1993, Pierre Janton [aut.], Humphrey Tonkin [ed., tr.], Jane Edwards [tr.], and Karen Johnson-Weiner [tr.], Esperanto: Language…. From the entry Esperantism
  • Both are struggling hard with the mal du siècle, the Romantic disease of the imagination, that makes it so difficult to convert private dreams into sustained social realities.1987 February 8, Richard Holmes, “Hot and Bothered in Paris and London”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry mal du siècle

Meaning of mal

  1. noun Illness, affliction.
  2. noun A longboard (type of surfboard).
  3. noun A malleolus.

Full definition of mal

Questions about mal in a sentence

How do you use mal in a sentence?
Mal is used as a noun. For example: “Mal rider, shortboard or lid everyone surfs like a kook sometimes.”
What is a short sentence with mal?
“a grand mal seizure”
What does mal mean?
Mal means illness, affliction.

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