fall sick

idiom

formal
: to become ill
Dozens of workers fell sick from exposure to the fumes.

Examples of fall sick in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Meanwhile, those with TB disease fall sick often have symptoms including chest pain, coughing up blood, fatigue, weakness, fever, chills, sweating, lack of appetite and weight loss, the CDC said. Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 8 May 2024 Migrants often fall sick after being stuck in close quarters, airline workers said, and some seem fragile. Annie Correal Federico Rios, New York Times, 29 Feb. 2024 Topsy was the first of the eight Andamanese to fall sick. Adam Goodheart, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Sep. 2023 And when an outbreak hits a federal prison, the number of prisoners who fall sick is staggering. Jed S. Rakoff, The New York Review of Books, 2 July 2020 See all Example Sentences for fall sick 

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“Fall sick.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fall%20sick. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.

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