How to Use sickness in a Sentence

sickness

noun
  • He died from an unknown sickness.
  • This is home-sickness, meine Liebe.
    — Literary Hub, 21 May 2026
  • This is my husband, through sickness and health.
    — Jami Ganz, New York Daily News, 31 Mar. 2026
  • His brush with death had fazed him less than his roiling dope sickness.
    — Wired, 15 Sep. 2019
  • After the sickness, a lot of sea star species did start to come back.
    — Byrd Pinkerton, Vox, 1 Apr. 2025
  • Can someone bring up sea-sickness bracelets?
    — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 3 Feb. 2026
  • Further signs of sickness can be seen in job openings.
    — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Really, who among us needs to be forced to avoid sickness or death?
    — John Tamny, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
  • Luther is shown struggling with a sickness early in the movie.
    — Tommy McArdle, People.com, 23 May 2025
  • Had the sickness blazed new pathways and cast light on tangled old ones?
    — Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Simply put, all of our stories end the same, with sickness and death.
    — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 22 July 2022
  • Not long after, the horse stabled next to it came down with the same sickness.
    — John Last, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Oct. 2022
  • Through sickness and in health, these moments bring the band closer.
    — Jocelyn Silver, Vogue, 27 Mar. 2025
  • The caveat for some couples ‘in sickness and in health’ might surprise you.
    — Sam Woodward, USA Today, 3 May 2025
  • This is not a man who was willing to face his (alleged) crimes and face his sickness.
    — August Brown, chicagotribune.com, 18 July 2019
  • The young man’s wife had feigned sickness to get him out of the house and had run off with her lover while he was gone.
    — Kurt Vonnegut, The New Yorker, 23 Nov. 2020
  • In the hope of fending off sickness, her mother had her drink red wine—one small glass a day.
    — Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2021
  • For 35 years, in sickness and in health, this has been a defining part of my life.
    — Hasit Shah, Quartz, 19 Apr. 2021
  • Jimmy was a young Scottish boy when the sickness ran amok first.
    — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 14 Jan. 2026
  • But the only surefire way to avoid sickness from airplane food is not to eat it.
    — Justin Klawans, theweek, 19 Nov. 2024
  • Nearby, a three-year-old boy wailed between bouts of sickness and reached out for his aunt’s hand.
    — Natalie Kitroeff, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Nov. 2022
  • As a way out of the waves of sickness and death that have come time and time again over the last 18 months.
    — Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 17 Sep. 2021
  • Many believed at the time the sickness was caused by bacteria.
    — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 24 Apr. 2020
  • The tide of sickness, distrust and fear slams up against the shoals of human nature.
    — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 20 June 2020
  • Exposure joined hunger and sickness to complete the task of mass killing.
    — Fintan O'Toole, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
  • Much of what Williamson has written about sickness and healing sounds wacky.
    — Jenni Avins, Quartzy, 30 July 2019
  • Pray that people get that sickness, that violence out of them.
    — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • The sudden sickness forced her to move back in with her parents and derailed her progress in school.
    — Laura Garcia, ExpressNews.com, 8 Feb. 2020
  • Nearby, a 3-year-old boy wailed between bouts of sickness and reached out for his aunt’s hand.
    — Natalie Kitroeff Adriana Zehbrauskas, New York Times, 19 Nov. 2022
  • Iris is still dealing with her time sickness, and Barry is not aware of that at this point.
    — Chancellor Agard, EW.com, 11 Nov. 2021

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