How to Use sicker in a Sentence

sicker

adjective

• While all the boys had the virus, Henry was sicker than the others.
  — Nataly Keomoungkhoun, Dallas News, 8 Apr. 2021
• But King George fell ill, then grew sicker and died in 1952.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 20 Nov. 2024
• The more problems there are, the sicker the patient is likely to be.
  — John C. Goodman, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
• Spring came, and my father got sicker and sicker, more and more frail.
  — Emily Ziff Griffin, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2024
• Patients with the virus tend to be sicker than flu patients and require more staff.
  — al, 10 Dec. 2020
• As Miguel got sicker, Angel and I and Miguel’s mother took turns taking care of him.
  — Helen Schulman, The Atlantic, 26 June 2025
• Patients who have two variants in the gene will likely be much sicker, much faster.
  — Ellen Matloff, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
• The sicker the patients, the bigger the potential payments.
  — Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• In many, patients are younger and sicker than before, doctors say.
  — Melissa Mahtani, CNN, 3 Aug. 2021
• 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
• The other four patients, who were all much sicker than Towana, died not long after their surgeries.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Feb. 2025
• 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
• 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
• Why, then, are employees sicker and more stressed than ever?
  — Andrew Deutscher, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024
• 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
• The problem is that this may drive up costs considerably for the sicker folks who remain on ACA exchange plans.
  — Joshua P. Cohen, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024
• And this winter, the patients being hospitalized seem sicker than those from the spring, said Poe.
  — al, 8 Dec. 2020
• The kids are sicker than in past waves, and nearly all are unvaccinated.
  — Caroline Catherman, orlandosentinel.com, 25 Aug. 2021
• And if a patient becomes sicker or dies, the question of who is liable becomes an issue.
  — Sanya Mansoor, TIME, 9 Feb. 2024
• Those who are sicker subsidize those who are better off.
  — Bill Cassidy, STAT, 5 July 2023
• The sicker an individual, the higher the stakes — and the more common these errors become.
  — Adam Rodman, STAT, 3 May 2024
• However, Smith claimed that Carson was a lot sicker than the headline implied.
  — Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 19 July 2025
• 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
• Betts — nervous about asking but getting sicker and sicker — sat down to write Conner an email.
  — Brad Schmitt, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
• Back in the spring, when the virus was ripping through long-term care facilities at a merciless rate, each patient who arrived seemed to be sicker than the next.
  — Hanna Krueger, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Jan. 2021
• Emily Gilmore was learning how to live without her husband at the same time that Bishop was watching her own spouse, talk show host Lee Leonard, grow sicker while fighting cancer for the eighth time.
  — Erin Spencer Sairam, Forbes.com, 30 July 2025