How to Use sickness in a Sentence

sickness

noun

• He died from an unknown sickness.
• With the triple threat of flu, Covid-19 and RSV, get ready for more sickness.
  — Wsj Staff, WSJ, 7 Dec. 2023
• As a way out of the waves of sickness and death that have come time and time again over the last 18 months.
  — Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 17 Sep. 2021
• The whole point of getting a fever is to slowly cook the sickness out of your body, killing off the pathogens in the process.
  — Max Bennett, Discover Magazine, 8 Feb. 2024
• After the sickness, a lot of sea star species did start to come back.
  — Byrd Pinkerton, Vox, 1 Apr. 2025
• The reason for this: mankind has been freed from sickness and pain.
  — Vulture, 20 July 2023
• For 35 years, in sickness and in health, this has been a defining part of my life.
  — Hasit Shah, Quartz, 19 Apr. 2021
• Not long after, the horse stabled next to it came down with the same sickness.
  — John Last, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Oct. 2022
• The young man’s wife had feigned sickness to get him out of the house and had run off with her lover while he was gone.
  — Kurt Vonnegut, The New Yorker, 23 Nov. 2020
• But the sickness that brought us Donald Trump has not gone away.
  — Star Tribune, 14 Jan. 2021
• For the most unfortunate among us, the year has meant sickness, the death of a loved one or the loss of a job.
  — Richard Chin, Star Tribune, 16 Mar. 2021
• The caveat for some couples ‘in sickness and in health’ might surprise you.
  — Sam Woodward, USA Today, 3 May 2025
• In Hasakah, hundreds of civilians are still camped out in a mosque, where the stench of fear and sickness fills the air.
  — Washington Post, 22 Jan. 2022
• The sickness was always the same, the farmworkers said.
  — Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2021
• Simply put, all of our stories end the same, with sickness and death.
  — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 22 July 2022
• Even those who have sinned can rely on the Lord to guide them to heal in times of hardship and sickness.
  — Elizabeth Berry, Woman's Day, 2 May 2022
• The tide of sickness, distrust and fear slams up against the shoals of human nature.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 20 June 2020
• Luther is shown struggling with a sickness early in the movie.
  — Tommy McArdle, People.com, 23 May 2025
• Part of the reason is that cyber-sickness has not gone away.
  — The Economist, 23 Nov. 2019
• Summer’s end means falling leaves, a surge in sickness and, for kids, the end of freedom, the start of a new regime.
  — Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2020
• Through sickness and in health, these moments bring the band closer.
  — Jocelyn Silver, Vogue, 27 Mar. 2025
• The Sky swooned following the break for the summer Olympics, in large part due to sickness and injuries.
  — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 22 Sep. 2024
• In the hope of fending off sickness, her mother had her drink red wine—one small glass a day.
  — Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2021
• Look it up by your ZIP code Is 'eclipse sickness' real?
  — Marina Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 8 Apr. 2024
• Because as George kicked the sickness and breathed easier, his team has done the same.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 8 Nov. 2022
• Whitehouse doubts that; a research firm at the time warned of sickness, headaches, and dizziness in younger users.
  — Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 20 Nov. 2020
• Keanu Reeves pushed himself to the point of sickness in order to pull off intense stunts in John Wick.
  — Eric Andersson, People.com, 4 Nov. 2024
• The sudden sickness forced her to move back in with her parents and derailed her progress in school.
  — Laura Garcia, ExpressNews.com, 8 Feb. 2020
• Motion sickness Motion sickness occurs when your eyes, ears, body, and brain can’t agree on what the hell is going on.
  — Rachel Nall, SELF, 17 June 2025
• These factors can put people at greater risk of sickness or death during extreme heat waves, according to a team of researchers from Northwestern University who presented at the event.
  — Chicago Tribune, 17 July 2025