How to Use ill in a Sentence

ill

1 of 3 adjective

• They had been subjected to months of ill treatment.
• That dog can eat almost anything with no ill effects.
• My late husband was ill for six years.
  — Jeanne Phillips, Mercury News, 21 Feb. 2026
• First, how long has the patient been ill for?
  — The New York Times News Service Syndicate, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Jan. 2026
• But this wasn’t even speaking ill of the dead.
  — Judy Berman, Time, 19 Sep. 2025
• How many people will fall ill with measles this year?
  — Editorial, Boston Herald, 25 Apr. 2026
• The person who was supposed to be here got ill.
  — Melonee Hurt, Nashville Tennessean, 20 Oct. 2025
• The ill feeling has been brewing for a long time.
  — Roshane Thomas, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2025
• There was no ill intent towards the hit.
  — Jess Myers, Twin Cities, 15 Oct. 2025
• For better or ill, the press is the only place to get such a thing.
  — Sebastian Junger, National Review, 25 Jan. 2024
• There’s no ill intent on anyone’s part.
  — Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 17 Mar. 2026
• But what about the mentally ill?
  — Lucius Riccio, New York Daily News, 1 Feb. 2026
• Within weeks, so many of his classmates fell ill that their school shut down.
  — Mary Beth Sheridan, CNN Money, 17 May 2026
• At least that day, no one from the kitchen crew had called in sick or had to stay home with an ill child.
  — Hannah Poukish, The Mercury News, 25 Mar. 2024
• But what if following the truth has ill effects down the line?
  — Will Carless, USA Today, 17 Jan. 2026
• How many parents can afford to take 3 weeks off work to care for an ill child?
  — Judy Stone, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025
• Anisimova had the bad luck of ill-health to manage.
  — James Hansen, New York Times, 30 May 2026
• Little has been shared about the children who became ill.
  — Madeline Heim, jsonline.com, 5 Sep. 2025
• Ten people who had close contact with her became ill.
  — Aria Bendix, NBC news, 12 May 2026
• Corporations are in on the fun, too, these days, for good or ill.
  — Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 18 June 2026
• The disruption of work, for good and for ill, should be front and central.
  — Scott Pelley, CBS News, 26 Apr. 2026
• Koren, who has been ill in recent years, could not be reached for comment.
  — Ben Taub, New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2026
• Young, old, ill or thin pets have a higher risk of injury in cold weather.
  — Alexis Simmerman, Austin American Statesman, 26 Jan. 2026
• Gallant started feeling ill about a month ago.
  — Pierre Lebrun, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2026
• To date, eight people have fallen ill in cases linked to the ship, and three have died.
  — Kathryn Palmer, USA Today, 11 May 2026
• That means 1 in 10 people who fall ill due to this disease will die.
  — Katia Hetter, CNN Money, 4 Sep. 2025
• They were supposed to allow the ill passengers to get off the ship.
  — Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 19 May 2026
• Texas authorities did not say where the child was from or why the child became ill.
  — Claire Thornton, USA TODAY, 12 Aug. 2023
• My father got ill very early and was not himself anymore.
  — Rustin Dodd, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2026
• By that time, Winston was ill and no longer coming into work.
  — Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 29 Dec. 2025

ill

2 of 3 adverb

• Please don't think ill of me.
• He was a good man who never spoke ill of anyone.
• He is being ill served by his advisers.
• Nearly a dozen people across five states fell ill.
  — Annie Waldman, ProPublica, 9 June 2026
• Nearly a dozen people across five states fell ill.
  — CNN Money, 14 June 2026
• Why are jails ill-equipped to provide mental health care?
  — Cody Copeland, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 Aug. 2025
• Or a gaggle of ill-behaved bros.
  — Elise Taylor, Vanity Fair, 22 Apr. 2026
• Adding new personnel to the mix at such a time could be ill advised.
  — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 19 Feb. 2026
• Ten more people who attended the wake fell ill.
  — ArsTechnica, 8 May 2026
• Not everything went smoothly, as one of them fell ill.
  — Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure, 24 June 2026
• In some of those cases, concerns proved to be ill-founded.
  — Oliver Kay, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2026
• For weeks, the region went quiet, as people fell ill and stayed home.
  — Dake Kang, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Dec. 2022
• My initial concern over the premise was ill-founded.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
• Adapt if your current costume is ill-fitting.
  — Usa Today, USA Today, 4 June 2026
• Earle watched helplessly as friends fell ill.
  — Christina Ray Stanton, Time, 2 June 2026
• Nothing spoils a vacation faster than an ill-fitting pair of shoes.
  — Michelle Baricevic, Travel + Leisure, 12 Jan. 2026
• The joke, at first, was how ill-suited for the gig Friedland was on paper.
  — Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 29 June 2026
• The tools of ordinary criticism seem ill-matched to the light that floods from these pages.
  — Literary Hub, 10 Feb. 2026
• Ana Navarro believes that people shouldn’t speak ill of the dead.
  — Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 13 July 2026
• Shamet, like Clarkson, could have been ill-prepared for the moment.
  — James L. Edwards Iii, New York Times, 9 May 2026
• Long gone are the itchy, ill-fitting-but-necessary sweaters of fall and winter.
  — Kristin Braswell, Travel + Leisure, 2 Nov. 2025
• Isn’t there supposed to be an Olympics on the way for which the city appears ill-prepared?
  — Classical Music Critic, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2026
• In many ways, her son is half her ex-husband, so speaking ill of the boy’s father only hurts her own son.
  — Dear Annie, cleveland, 16 July 2023
• More than 700 people fell ill in four states and three other children died as well.
  — Leanne Italie, Hartford Courant, 22 Oct. 2022
• Even members of the military police are ill-suited for the task.
  — David French, Mercury News, 20 Aug. 2025
• Most of these are small and mid-market teams who could ill-afford a drastic the financial hit.
  — Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 29 Jan. 2023
• For the time being, betting on either of those outcomes would seem ill-advised.
  — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 18 Nov. 2022
• When her mother falls ill, Michelle is forced to face the memories of her childhood.
  — Amanda Favazza, Southern Living, 15 Feb. 2026
• Don’t eliminate the rule, but amend it for this dominant player who fell ill.
  — Chuck Murr, Forbes.com, 17 May 2026
• Today, his sisters say, their family is aging and ill-equipped to meet his needs.
  — Olivia Olander, Chicago Tribune, 4 Jan. 2026

ill

3 of 3 noun

• For all their ills, the Chargers are in first place.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Oct. 2025
• The state doesn’t have enough intensive care unit beds to treat the ill.
  — al, 9 Sep. 2021
• And this one guy at this one firm can't solve all of his industry's ills.
  — Sam Yellowhorse Kesler, NPR, 8 Apr. 2026
• That solves a lot of problems, a lot of ills of society.
  — Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 4 Nov. 2025
• The horror genre can be a handy metaphor for all sorts of societal ills.
  — Dallas News, 22 Feb. 2023
• All these social ills have worsened, and the collapse is more than moral.
  — Dominic Green, Washington Examiner, 12 Jan. 2024
• No public inquiry can deal with all of the ills that have driven weeks of protests.
  — The Economist, 20 Aug. 2019
• But the Season Three finale didn’t cure all of that year’s ills.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 10 Nov. 2023
• One primary concern is that teaching about these ills can make people feel bad and ashamed.
  — J. Luke Wood, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Mar. 2023
• Pity people that speak ill of others because while some of us r dancing, the others r too afraid.
  — Megan Stein, Country Living, 22 Feb. 2020
• Aliou Sullivan first learned about the ills of fossil fuels in fourth grade.
  — Sonali Kohli, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2019
• This is not to suggest that cities like Detroit don't suffer from many urban ills.
  — John Gallagher, Detroit Free Press, 18 July 2019
• The expectations, the hope is so high for that prescription to be the salve for their ills.
  — Torie Bosch, STAT, 25 Apr. 2026
• Still, the ills of white supremacy are at work there as well, dating back to the Gold Rush days.
  — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 6 June 2023
• Wellness, Blei wrote, is in part a response to societal ills.
  — Brittney McNamara, Teen Vogue, 27 Jan. 2020
• Reform’s pitch to voters is that, for many of these ills, mass immigration is to blame.
  — Alexander Smith, NBC news, 24 Feb. 2026
• Charli isn’t pretending the world’s ills are curable through a sweaty night dancing with friends.
  — Scottie Andrew, CNN Money, 2 June 2026
• Such areas often see more than their share of social ills such as lower life expectancy.
  — Asutosh Padhi, Fortune, 20 Feb. 2023
• Those are the ills that led to the deadly showdown between the two sons of Omaha.
  — Stuart Miller, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2023
• The only protection against these ills were spells cast by the deceased Ankh herself.
  — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Jan. 2020
• Progressives clash with centrists over the scope and speed of the changes needed to address the country’s ills.
  — Michael Bobelian, Washington Post, 29 June 2023
• That kind of profit growth can cure a lot of ills, and the Big Three have agreed to raise their employees' pay.
  — Marley Jay, NBC News, 14 Sep. 2023
• New Orleans has struggled in the red zone all season and Hill appears to be the cure for those ills.
  — Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Oct. 2023
• The catalog of ills is familiar.
  — Danielle Allen, The Atlantic, 21 May 2026
• The same spirit that fought against the ills of the past keeps remaking and reforming itself for today.
  — Caille Millner, SFChronicle.com, 8 Nov. 2019
• Pandora has opened her box and its ills are fully integrated into our world.
  — Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 18 Sep. 2025
• Jackson describes a litany of social ills, from hunger and homelessness to crime and drug abuse, all set to a grinding new-jack bassline.
  — Sal Cinquemani, Billboard, 19 Sep. 2019
• No, coach Marco Sturm did not reach back for a 20th century bag skate to cure the team’s ills.
  — Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 24 Oct. 2025
• On this near-ideal night, all the ills of the past few years faded away, and an era — or at least a month — of real ambition began.
  — Henry Bushnell, New York Times, 14 June 2026
• Among the ill have been an increasing number of hospital staff, Smithgall said.
  — Danny Nguyen, Washington Post, 29 Dec. 2023