How to Use malaise in a Sentence

malaise

noun
  • The symptoms include headache, malaise, and fatigue.
  • The country's current economic problems are symptoms of a deeper malaise.
  • An infected person will feel a general malaise.
  • My arms itched, my scalp itched, and malaise lay over me like a mist.
    — Seija Rankin, EW.com, 7 Oct. 2020
  • Nothing but wins in the fall can lift their malaise.
    — Mitch Sherman, New York Times, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Which, some would say, is the source of our, and our dogs’, malaise.
    — Antonia Hitchens, Town & Country, 29 Aug. 2021
  • Movies are here to rescue you from your post-present malaise.
    — Corey Atad, Esquire, 19 Dec. 2017
  • In 2025, a malaise seemed to set in.
    — Henry Bushnell, New York Times, 14 June 2026
  • The second bite brought the heat; the third brought the malaise.
    — Alex Beggs, Bon Appétit, 7 Oct. 2021
  • The catcher had missed time, yet there was no sign of any malaise.
    — Andy Kostka, Baltimore Sun, 21 May 2022
  • For many of us, the dog days of summer come with a sense of malaise.
    — Jody Schmal and Mizanur Rahman, Houston Chronicle, 29 June 2018
  • These include fever, malaise, headache, sore throat and cough and swollen lymph nodes.
    — Michelle Shen, USA TODAY, 18 Nov. 2021
  • There is a malaise clouding the team’s belief.
    — Joshua Kloke, New York Times, 21 Dec. 2025
  • Their offensive malaise had gone on too long.
    — Sahadev Sharma, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Last season, the Bucks broke out of the malaise with a win streak.
    — Jim Owczarski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 31 Jan. 2022
  • Is this the source of his cinephile wisdom, or his chronic malaise?
    — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 3 Sep. 2020
  • The movie lags, then strains to get to the next game at the exact time the malaise sets in.
    — Paul A. Thompson, Pitchfork, 22 May 2025
  • Trains and workers plodded through the rail yard, all trapped in a deep malaise.
    — Max De Haldevang, Quartz, 7 Nov. 2019
  • Japan’s economy is mired in a years-long malaise and the yen has been weak.
    — Maria Aspan, Fortune, 26 Mar. 2024
  • Would the shock to my system shake me out of this quarantine malaise?
    — New York Times, 24 Apr. 2021
  • The man listens to a French rap song about the malaise of modern life.
    — Nancy Walecki, The Atlantic, 9 Oct. 2025
  • And the on-court slide runs concurrent to a malaise among Iowa fans.
    — Scott Dochterman, The Athletic, 14 Mar. 2025
  • Not bad for a guy who made his name writing five-minute, gut-punch folk songs about small-town malaise.
    — Spin Staff, SPIN, 4 May 2026
  • Even those of us who aren’t actively breaking still feel the malaise.
    — Literary Hub, 3 June 2026
  • And as perilous as this offense malaise seems, winning is sort of the end all.
    — Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 June 2025
  • A feeling of general malaise can set in.
    — Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 25 Nov. 2025
  • In spite of viral angst and economic malaise, the glass is much more than half full.
    — Paul Douglas, Star Tribune, 25 Nov. 2020
  • No, that’s a huge part of this general, season-long malaise.
    — Grant Brisbee, New York Times, 15 June 2026
  • Packing peanuts litter the floor, malaise drips like hot, messy wax over the side of a candle.
    — Jenny Singer, Glamour, 17 May 2021
  • Taking his place to steer the brand out of its malaise is … Cornell’s right-hand man.
    — Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2025

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