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How to use sickness in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun

Sickness means the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; an illness. Example: “Swollen breasts, morning sickness, and a missed period are classic symptoms of pregnancy.”

Examples of sickness by meaning

nounThe analogical misuse of a rarer or marked grammatical case in the place of a more common or unmarked case.

  • We can now return to the question of how we treat the phenomenon of dative sickness (the possibility of substituting dative in place of accusative on the experiencer nominal) in Icelandic.1997, Michael B. Smith, “§ 4.7”, in Quirky Case in Icelandic

More sentences with sickness

  • Swollen breasts, morning sickness, and a missed period are classic symptoms of pregnancy.From the entry symptom
  • The pupil feigned sickness on the day of his exam.From the entry feign
  • The Chinese use a preparation derived from toadskins, which they call senso, as a remedy for several sicknesses.From the entry toadskin
  • Sickness is a disqualification for labor.From the entry disqualification
  • She was too weakened by sickness to assert her okayness at full volume.2021, Rivers Solomon, Sorrowland, #Merky Books, page 155. From the entry okayness
  • These last couple weeks have been so cursed with sickness and family stuff sorry guys.2021 November 6, @dexbonus, Twitter, archived from the original on 17 Nov 2023. From the entry ezpz
  • Now some adventuring imbecile had acquired an elective sickness and was paying its price.2019, Dave Eggers, The Parade, New York: Vintage, page 130. From the entry elective
  • Sickness is cramped psychic quarters and joylessness, an extreme and perhaps prolonged unsweetness.2017, Jennie Hirsh, Contemporary Art and Classical Myth, page 332. From the entry unsweetness
  • The carriage is heavy with the odors of sickness: sweat and menthol throat lollies duke it out.2011, Trent Jamieson, The Business of Death. From the entry throat lolly
  • It was as if mankind had a sickness that it kept inflicting on itself.2010, George W. Bush, Decision Points, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 23. From the entry freedom
  • This sort of hypervaluation of sickness and suffering would indeed have undermined the rule of the monastery.2005, Andrew Todd Crislip, From Monastery to Hospital, University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, page 97. From the entry hypervaluation
  • The Factory may not be tapped to increase its own toughness if it suffers from summoning sickness.1997, George H. Baxter, Baxter on Magic: A Guide to Proper Playing Techniques for Magic: The Gathering, page 22. From the entry summoning sickness
  • Kafka's illnesses are more existential than physical; they are like Kierkegaard's "sickness unto death."1990 April 1, Anatole Broyard, “Good Books about Being Sick”, in New York Times, retrieved 19 Jul 2015. From the entry sickness unto death
  • Society insisted that it was bad form to ostentate one's sickness unnecessarily.1988, R. Porter & D. Porter, chapter XI, in In Sickness & in Health, page 191. From the entry ostentate
  • She died of cirrhosis, brain fever, consumption and green sickness before she reached twenty.1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 35. From the entry green sickness
  • Martin had a good chin-chin at the fence about sickness and husbands.1947, Coast to Coast, page 136. From the entry chin-chin
  • I was suffering from the morning sickness of the steady, heavy drinker.1913 August, Jack London, John Barleycorn, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC. From the entry bracer
  • What is to be done with those who are incapacitated by sickness, invalidcy or old age?1912, National Safety Council, Transactions, volumes 1-3, page 180. From the entry invalidcy
  • In good times and bad, in sickness and health, the benefits of friendships between women are physically and psychologically undeniable.2024 August 4, Terry Ward, “Fragile and complex, female friendships hinge on the three S’s, a new book says”, in CNN. From the entry friendship
  • If cities ailed, Jinja had sleeping sickness.2020, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, The First Woman, Oneworld Publications, page 372. From the entry jinja
  • No sickness or disease can stand in Jesus's presence.2020, Chichi Onoriobe, Exploring the Efficacy of Christ's Blood. From the entry plead the blood of Jesus
  • Well, you can put on your dancing shoes because sicknesses, diseases and abnormalities will never be found in heaven.2011, Franklin T. Gibbs, The Shocking Truths about Heaven, Hell and Your Birthright Blessing, page 17. From the entry put on one's dancing shoes
  • This crisis is not a healthy one, but a sickness unto death, a decadence that threatens to destroy our society.2007, Frederick Turner, Culture of Hope: A New Birth of the Classical Spirit, →ISBN, page 1. From the entry sickness unto death
  • It's part of his control-freak sickness, his let's-play-get-the-girl.2005, Elizabeth Adler, Invitation to Provence. From the entry bring down to size
  • This isn't passion; it is evidence of sickness.2001, Eric F. Fagan, Cast Your Net. From the entry smacker
  • 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
  • Many times creatures with summoning sickness will not get an opportunity to be used before they are destroyed.1995, Charles Wolfe, Deep Magic: Advanced Strategies for Experienced Players of Magic: The Gathering, page 44. From the entry summoning sickness
  • The tribal doctor’s work includes curing sickness, finding out the causes of death, predicting the future and making and stopping rain.1991, John & Sue Erbacher, Aborigines of the Rainforest. From the entry clever
  • Lots of sickness, moving, superabundance of work, etc.1977 December 17, “F and S in New Hampshire (personal advertisement)”, in Gay Community News, volume 5, number 24, page 14. From the entry superabundance
  • They lost many a fight to the often mysterious fiercity of consumption, typhoid fever, pneumonia, dropsy and other sicknesses.1976 July 4, “First doctors often last hope of the sick”, in Denton Record-Chronicle, 73rd year, number 289, Denton, Tex., page 18I. From the entry fiercity
  • The old stomach sickness clutched me. put one hand on the edge of the house to steady myself.1904, Jack London, chapter 32, in The Sea-Wolf (Macmillan’s Standard Library), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC. From the entry take one's eyes off
  • What’s more, COVID-19 isn’t the only sickness going around, as influenza and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) cases are prevalent, creating a “tripledemic.”2022 January 5, Janelle Randazza, Kaleb Brown, “Fight against the tripledemic with these KN95 masks for kids”, in USA Today, Money. From the entry tripledemic
  • This is a specialised type of diving which reduces the risk of decompression sickness due to use of a mixture of oxygen and helium.2019 April 5, Debbie Jackson, “Diver cheated death in North Sea miracle”, in BBC News, archived from the original on 27 Jan 2022. From the entry saturation diver
  • Occidentosis epitomises the idea that there is a “Western sickness” from which the Third World must rise to detox and strive to cleanse itself.2019, Vali Mahlouji, “occidentosis, Vali Mahlouji”, in Glossary of Common Knowledge. From the entry occidentosis
  • But an over-stressed insistence on a discipled suffering may impose too much upon those who struggle with sickness, misfortune, guilt and bereavement.2018, David Fergusson, The Providence of God: A Polyphonic Approach, page 339. From the entry discipled
  • These schemes are also occupationalist in nature and are primarily designed to protect workers in the event of work injury, sickness and maternity.2013, James Midgley, Social Development: Theory and Practice, page 180. From the entry occupationalist
  • First, I got the fever – an actual fever, a sickness that almost certainly clouded my judgement for at least seventy-two hours.2009, Declan Lynch, Free Money: The Gambler’s Quest, Transworld Ireland, →ISBN, page 144. From the entry Dostoevskan
  • Beside her on the counter were racks of faded brochures in half a dozen languages about the symptoms and treatment of altitude sickness.2009, Eliot Pattison, “Chapter Seven”, in The Lord of Death, New York: Soho Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 113. From the entry Tingri
  • Here the believer is encouraged to take some coincidence, like winning the lottery or recovering from sickness, as evidence of a higher power at work.2007, James B. Twitchell, Shopping for God, →ISBN, page 105. From the entry God wink

Meaning of sickness

  1. noun The quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; an illness.
  2. noun Nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach.
  3. noun The analogical misuse of a rarer or marked grammatical case in the place of a more common or unmarked case.

Full definition of sickness

Questions about sickness in a sentence

How do you use sickness in a sentence?
Sickness is used as a noun. For example: “Swollen breasts, morning sickness, and a missed period are classic symptoms of pregnancy.”
What is a short sentence with sickness?
“Sickness is a disqualification for labor.”
What does sickness mean?
Sickness means the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; an illness.

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