How to Use sicker in a Sentence

sicker

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• Spring came, and my father got sicker and sicker, more and more frail.
  — Emily Ziff Griffin, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2024
• While all the boys had the virus, Henry was sicker than the others.
  — Nataly Keomoungkhoun, Dallas News, 8 Apr. 2021
• The more problems there are, the sicker the patient is likely to be.
  — John C. Goodman, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
• Patients with the virus tend to be sicker than flu patients and require more staff.
  — al, 10 Dec. 2020
• Patients who have two variants in the gene will likely be much sicker, much faster.
  — Ellen Matloff, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
• In many, patients are younger and sicker than before, doctors say.
  — Melissa Mahtani, CNN, 3 Aug. 2021
• Research has long shown that Black people live sicker lives and die younger than white people.
  — Liz Szabo | Kff Health News, NBC News, 16 May 2023
• The kids are sicker than in past waves, and nearly all are unvaccinated.
  — Caroline Catherman, orlandosentinel.com, 25 Aug. 2021
• The other four patients, who were all much sicker than Towana, died not long after their surgeries.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Feb. 2025
• And if a patient becomes sicker or dies, the question of who is liable becomes an issue.
  — Sanya Mansoor, TIME, 9 Feb. 2024
• And existing businesses that can’t move, like farms who need lots of rural land, have to deal with sicker workers.
  — Alana Semuels, Time, 1 July 2025
• But over the next several months, Raphael became sicker as the largest blood vessel in his body narrowed.
  — Jessica Herzberg, NBC News, 17 Oct. 2024
• Betts — nervous about asking but getting sicker and sicker — sat down to write Conner an email.
  — Brad Schmitt, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
• Thoughts change the world, and cynicism is turning ours into a meaner, sadder, sicker place.
  — Jamil Zaki, TIME, 3 Sep. 2024
• The wealthy companies get paid, and our citizens get sicker and less productive.
  — Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 3 Dec. 2024
• In the years since, pandemic, war and inflation have left a lot of the world sicker, poorer and angrier.
  — Greg Ip, WSJ, 4 Jan. 2024
• Over the course of a few days, Carlo became progressively sicker.
  — Emily Harnett, Harpers Magazine, 28 Mar. 2025
• Already, doctors know that people who get both the flu and a cold at the same time tend to be sicker than those who are only infected with one virus.
  — Alice Park, Time, 11 Oct. 2022
• Yet when the time came for her release, Miles said, Moshe urged her captors to take an older, sicker woman in her place.
  — Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 28 Nov. 2023
• And this winter, the patients being hospitalized seem sicker than those from the spring, said Poe.
  — al, 8 Dec. 2020
• That without artists, without the painters, the poets, the filmmakers, the beauty makers, the world would be sicker.
  — Stephanie Dillon, Rolling Stone, 18 June 2025
• Across the region, doctors say that the patients coming into hospitals are now far younger and far sicker than before.
  — New York Times, 29 Apr. 2021
• However, Smith claimed that Carson was a lot sicker than the headline implied.
  — Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 19 July 2025
• How the bottom-line ethos of the health care industry meant fewer nurses to do more work and led to sick patients becoming sicker.
  — Senior Political, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Mar. 2018
• The sicker the patient is, the higher their risk score, and the bigger the check insurers receive from the government.
  — Hyacinth Empinado, STAT, 25 July 2024
• As Miguel got sicker, Angel and I and Miguel’s mother took turns taking care of him.
  — Helen Schulman, The Atlantic, 26 June 2025
• The duo kept filming even as their friend became sicker, and the results from his treatments became increasingly grim.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 7 Mar. 2026
• Nation/World Research has long shown that Black people live sicker lives and die younger than white people.
  — Liz Szabo, Anchorage Daily News, 17 May 2023
• That means the pool of people who are still covered by ACA plans will be sicker and more expensive to care for.
  — Alana Semuels, Time, 27 Aug. 2025
• The sicker an individual, the higher the stakes — and the more common these errors become.
  — Adam Rodman, STAT, 3 May 2024