How to Use malady in a Sentence

malady

noun
  • Jaylen Brown has already dealt with the worst of his maladies.
    — Adam Himmelsbach, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Apr. 2023
  • This work transformed me and healed me of many modern maladies.
    — Literary Hub, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Cancer is still, and has been for a long time, the emperor of all maladies.
    — Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 7 Aug. 2019
  • People have been known to crack ribs or suffer even worse maladies from coughing so hard.
    — Ben Ayers, Outside Online, 9 May 2025
  • The usual maladies that befall a loose heel are bad blisters as your heel rubs against the shoe.
    — Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 10 June 2025
  • There are no easy fixes to these societal maladies.
    — Literary Hub, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Curing these maladies is a delicate task, with a set of tools and potions to match.
    — Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Edward is in the grip of a grotesque malady that causes his flesh to desiccate and slough away.
    — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 17 June 2022
  • Other maladies include dropping knees and a feeling of shock.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 10 May 2024
  • For years Francona has tried to combat his maladies by swimming every day.
    — Paul Hoynes, cleveland.com, 7 July 2017
  • Death has begun to reveal itself to them, in the form of burnout, high blood pressure and other maladies.
    — Jesse Green, New York Times, 5 June 2023
  • These are all maladies that Albania had rid itself of some 50 years ago.
    — Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 25 Nov. 2024
  • Other maladies are also projected to get worse as the climate changes.
    — Umair Irfan, Vox, 24 Nov. 2018
  • These stopped the bleeding, but the precise cause of this latest malady is yet to be determined.
    — Jim Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Dec. 2023
  • Haberman and Swan make clear the dimensions of his malady.
    — David Remnick, New Yorker, 23 June 2026
  • But those maladies have nothing against the ones presented in this list—six afflictions that many of us have come to know all too well.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Apr. 2026
  • None of those potential changes will matter if the malady the Leafs feel is real.
    — Joshua Kloke, New York Times, 21 Dec. 2025
  • Many cannot afford to pay the $2 for a course of 21 pills or do not diagnose the malady in time.
    — The Economist, 8 June 2019
  • Meanwhile, the outside world has no means to poke into the AI to ferret out those maladies.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Weerasethakul develops a new choreography for the dance of love, the malady of love.
    — The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2022
  • Among the human body’s many maladies, few have stumped medical researchers like those that decimate the brain.
    — Bret Stetka, Scientific American, 15 Aug. 2019
  • The initial list started with six maladies and has grown to more than 50 conditions today.
    — Fox News, 13 Apr. 2018
  • To escape the malady, a young girl named Kirie decides to flee the city, but the task is not so straightforward.
    — Jamie Lang, Variety, 26 Oct. 2024
  • Adams' injury was the latest in a long string of maladies that dogged the Packers over the first quarter of the season.
    — USA TODAY, 4 Oct. 2017
  • Unless the malady was pneumonia, the specifics of an illness rarely were printed.
    — Barbara Benson, chicagotribune.com, 15 Mar. 2018
  • Climate change caused by carbon dioxide is assumed by the authors to be a global malady in need of a cure—their tax cure.
    — WSJ, 19 Mar. 2017
  • But his physical malady is only half his problem.
    — Andy Andersen, Vulture, 30 Mar. 2026
  • The maladies also come at a time in Cleveland’s schedule where some of its more notable matchups are coming up quite soon.
    — Law Murray, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2026
  • That rare malady results in an accumulation of the pigment found in red blood cells.
    — Stephen King, The Atlantic, 15 May 2026
  • Matthew Stafford is a bit iffy because of a bad back and other maladies common to aging quarterbacks.
    — Kevin Cusick, Twin Cities, 5 Sep. 2025

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