How to Use fall sick in a Sentence

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• Betty Rivera was the first in her household to fall sick, early last month.
  — New York Times, 23 Jan. 2021
• So, what if you’re soon forced to go back into the office, and in doing so, you get exposed to the virus and fall sick?
  — Olga Khazan, The Atlantic, 1 June 2020
• As Rhodes has said, musicians often fall sick in the aftermath.
  — James Reich, SPIN, 31 Jan. 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
• 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
• Most cooks, bartenders and grocery workers who fall sick or have to quarantine will lose money since about two-thirds of them don't have access to paid sick leave.
  — Irina Ivanova, CBS News, 24 Dec. 2021
• The problem is, people fall sick asynchronously and get boosted on their own schedules, so the timing varies for everyone.
  — Yasmin Tayag, The Atlantic, 9 Dec. 2022
• Already, hospitals are becoming crippled as hundreds of health workers fall sick with the variant.
  — Aniruddha Ghosal, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Jan. 2022
• They get infected, remain asymptomatic or fall sick, recover or die, all without passing along the virus to anyone.
  — Christopher Cox, Wired, 10 Nov. 2020
• That desire became impossible to ignore after seeing people around him fall sick — and, in some cases, pass away.
  — Jordan Greene, PEOPLE, 22 Jan. 2026
• Nurses and other hospital staff continued to fall sick themselves, raising nurse to patient ratios in some places to high levels.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 11 Jan. 2022
• Others point to the staggering financial success of many companies during the global public health crisis — one that saw an untold number of workers fall sick on the job.
  — Eli M. Rosenberg, NBC News, 21 Nov. 2022
• But when more people began to fall sick the following month, officials tried to curb the spread while also closing as few stores as possible, as federal relief for businesses had dried up.
  — Soumya Karlamangla, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2020
• Bees can fall sick or die if concentrations of oxalic acid are too high, and other chemical miticides can cause reproductive problems in the pollinators.
  — Erik Stokstad, Science | AAAS, 4 June 2021
• That’s in line with the rest of the country, which began seeing more people fall sick with the tiny parasite, cyclospora, back in May, the start of cyclosporiasis season.
  — Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 16 July 2026
• If an outbreak caused by a variant of the coronavirus occurs in a community, its survivors could become the medicine chest for others who fall sick, a New Jersey researcher said.
  — Elinor Aspegren, USA TODAY, 19 Feb. 2021
• Federal health officials are continuing to test food items for cyclospora after discovering a sample of iceberg lettuce was a false positive match for the parasite that has caused thousands of people nationwide to fall sick.
  — Melina Khan, USA Today, 20 July 2026
• The shortages are primarily caused by overwhelming numbers of patients as coronavirus spreads, combined with decreasing staff levels as nurses and doctors themselves fall sick or have to quarantine after being exposed to infected people.
  — Olivia Goldhill, STAT, 19 Nov. 2020
• Another incident saw Simon fall sick with the same symptoms during a camping trip at Howqua in Victoria's High Country between May 25 and 27, 2022, the ABC noted.
  — Becca Longmire, People.com, 8 Aug. 2025