How to Use unwell in a Sentence

unwell

adjective
  • I am sorry she is feeling unwell.
  • Miss Bennett, are you unwell?
  • The state of the nation is unwell.
    — James Folta, Literary Hub, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Ted is unwell in a way that can’t be fixed by a steady stream of flashbacks.
    — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 23 Feb. 2025
  • And that man is clearly unwell.
    — Diaa Hadid, NPR, 10 Apr. 2026
  • The wife became unwell on the trip home and later died.
    — Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2026
  • One was dead and the other appeared to be alive, but unwell.
    — Rick Sobey, Boston Herald, 1 Dec. 2025
  • And the Bengals are just unwell.
    — Joe Nguyen, Denver Post, 29 Sep. 2025
  • And the Bengals are just unwell.
    — Luca Evans, Denver Post, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Whitney shows up at her house for a wellness check and Jen is very unwell.
    — Olivia Crandall, Vulture, 17 May 2025
  • The next day, her mother also felt unwell and sought testing, too.
    — Tessa Duvall, The Courier-Journal, 20 Nov. 2020
  • But drugs and surgery don’t fix the systemic issues that make children unwell in the first place.
    — Isabella Cueto, STAT, 17 July 2023
  • An unwell postal worker picked off lover’s-lane couples with a revolver.
    — Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 25 Apr. 2026
  • He was said to be too unwell to attend one previous hearing even by video link.
    — Palko Karasz, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2019
  • Some people get the flu shot and feel totally fine, while others may feel a bit unwell.
    — Korin Miller, SELF, 21 Oct. 2022
  • At the time, Clare was in his late forties and mentally unwell.
    — Robert MacFarlane, The New York Review of Books, 15 June 2021
  • When his crew returned to earth at the end of June, Leonov was already unwell.
    — Fox News, 11 Oct. 2019
  • In it, Bergman explains that Christopher had been unwell for some time.
    — Emiliana Betancourt, Variety, 6 Dec. 2024
  • The 22-year-old had been unwell and was barely able to speak for several days.
    — Meriam Bouarrouj, NBC News, 10 Mar. 2025
  • Around the same time, Wilson said his wife started feeling unwell.
    — David Montesino, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Elvis appears bloated and unwell.
    — John Beifuss, USA Today, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Green’s back tightened during his pregame warmup and Porzingis stayed at his hotel, unwell.
    — Sam Gordon, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Feb. 2026
  • But no rapid test is perfect, Pekosz said, and anyone who feels even a little bit unwell should stay home.
    — Katie Shepherd, Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2022
  • And people who feel unwell or have recently been exposed to someone with the virus should stay home.
    — Jim Daley, Scientific American, 14 Oct. 2020
  • Giulia had been unwell for the past few weeks, agitated and unable to sleep.
    — Anna Davies, Cosmopolitan, 5 May 2017
  • Other members of the family had felt unwell the night before his death.
    — Djenane Villanueva, CNN Money, 3 Apr. 2025
  • My mum had been feeling unwell for a while and had taken to her bed on Christmas Eve.
    — Geoff Dyer, Harpers Magazine, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Signs throughout the grounds advise guests to mask up, keep 6 feet of space from others and stay home if feeling unwell.
    — Kathleen Christiansen, orlandosentinel.com, 26 Dec. 2020
  • The part of the body making that decision is unwell and not functioning the way it is supposed to.
    — Sharon Grigsby, Dallas News, 13 Apr. 2021
  • So the first symptoms have been fever, feeling unwell, backache, muscle aches, and then followed by a rash.
    — Abc News, ABC News, 19 Aug. 2022

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