How to Use ail in a Sentence

ail

1 of 2 verb

• The tweaks should fix much of what has long ailed it.
  — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 21 May 2026
• If that's the case, though, the food will cure what ails you.
  — Usa Today Network, USA Today, 17 Apr. 2026
• What ails her is not clear, but someone has a hint.
  — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 15 Apr. 2026
• But, in some parts of the world, the long form of the game is ailing.
  — Ed Caesar, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
• Naming what ails you is not the same as overcoming it.
  — Hena Bryan, Refinery29, 26 Aug. 2025
• Sneed dealt with an ailing knee late in his Chiefs tenure.
  — Pete Sweeney, Kansas City Star, 8 June 2026
• Only the Knicks could heal a city ailing for more than a half decade.
  — Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 18 June 2026
• Since his death, questions have swirled around what ailed Beethoven and his true cause of death.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 22 Mar. 2023
• But job cuts also won’t cure what ails the global bank by themselves.
  — WSJ, 20 Nov. 2023
• But even if nothing ails you, take the waters anyway.
  — Elizabeth Heath, Travel + Leisure, 31 Mar. 2026
• The ailing iceberg may have also sprung a leak.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 8 Jan. 2026
• The same problems that have ailed the team all year persisted.
  — Kansas City Star, 21 Dec. 2025
• Not to mention that an ailing Krypto is hard to watch.
  — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 26 June 2026
• And now that element of his game is ailing like no other time this decade.
  — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 12 Jan. 2026
• No, this is not an instant fix for everything that ails Bungie.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
• His assessment of what ails the Times will leave third-degree burns.
  — Nr Editors, National Review, 22 Dec. 2023
• The idea of being wrapped in a little wood house feels like the cure for whatever ails you.
  — Kathy Barnes, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Oct. 2025
• At the end of the trailer, an ailing Deadpool lies on the ground and asks for help.
  — Dan Heching, CNN, 12 Feb. 2024
• That paints an ugly picture for the Cavs, but a return home can fix what ails them.
  — Dan Santaromita, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2026
• Natascha told about how Weir would visit friends who were ailing or close to death and sing and play for them.
  — Ben Fong-Torres, Rolling Stone, 18 Jan. 2026
• Aging research doesn’t tend to be about finding the one cure that fixes all that may ail you in old age.
  — Ellen Quarles, Fortune Well, 7 July 2023
• There was a new granddaughter to meet and an ailing and aging father to tend to.
  — Suzette Hackney, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2025
• Oh, the mom of the boy with the ailing pink kite, smiled as Deale fastened a red tail to her son’s kite.
  — Jenna Portnoy, Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2024
• Market forces were thought to be the cure for whatever might ail people and the planet.
  — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 24 Mar. 2023
• Some investors were baffled why an ailing shoe brand got so much attention in the first place.
  — Victor Tangermann, Futurism, 16 Apr. 2026
• None of them addresses enough holes elsewhere on the roster to fix all that ails the Jets.
  — Murat Ates, New York Times, 11 May 2026
• Jackson's ankle didn't appear to ail him at all during the second half.
  — Omari Sankofa Ii, Detroit Free Press, 2 Apr. 2021
• There is a single pump, that looks rusted and ailing, with water spitting out of it to the ground.
  — Sara Sidner, CNN, 25 Mar. 2023
• There simply doesn't seem to be a quick fix available for what ails the Texans offense.
  — Jacob Camenker, USA Today, 28 Sep. 2025
• But if multiple hitters start ailing, then there could be a problem.
  — Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2026

ail

2 of 2 noun

• Normally served on the street, ya dong’s herbal powers are said to cure bodily ails.
  — Natalie B. Compton, GQ, 1 Aug. 2017
• Illinois’s fiscal ails have long revolved around its pension system for teachers and state workers.
  — Shruti Singh, Bloomberg.com, 18 May 2020
• This social pressure only worked, though, to the extent that patients could afford to leave normal life behind, and ail in isolation from their communities.
  — Annika Neklason, The Atlantic, 21 Mar. 2020
• City may well have believed that a summer break would cure their ails and time would simply consign last season’s mid-season collapse to room 101, but the rest of the league does not forget.
  — Jordan Campbell, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2025
• The pitch inherently presumes a technologically advanced society, one where medicine has cured our physical ails.
  — Will Nevin, OregonLive.com, 26 Dec. 2017
• Brian Dennehy is Irina’s ailing elder brother, Sorin, although Dennehy, at seventy-nine, still looks too bearishly robust to ail.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 11 May 2018