sickness

Example Sentences

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She is traveling by train to an unnamed city for a book festival, where she will be expected to speak with authority about the war—an assumed connection that fills her with sickness and shame.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

Shankland got over his sickness in double-quick time.

From BBC • Mar. 24, 2026

The findings showed that GLP-1 medications, especially semaglutide, were associated with fewer psychiatric-related hospital visits and reduced sickness absence.

From Science Daily • Mar. 22, 2026

That moment came for me earlier this year, after a back-to-back-back trifecta of holidays, sickness and travel.

From Salon • Mar. 9, 2026

Huygens had always suffered from ill health, and although he was based in Paris for the next fifteen years, he twice had to return to Holland for lengthy periods to recuperate from sickness.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin