How to Use violently ill in a Sentence

violently ill

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  • Carrick was one of those Spurs players who was violently ill.
    Michael Walker, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2026
  • After eating some of the mussels common to the area, half of the party became violently ill.
    David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Apr. 2022
  • The last thing Itō remembers from that dinner is getting violently ill in the bathroom.
    Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Mitchell describes Dunn's final days as suspicious; one night after a dinner, Dunn fell violently ill.
    CNN, 3 Mar. 2021
  • Navalny, 44, became violently ill on a flight to Moscow in August.
    Tyler Van Dyke, Washington Examiner, 21 Dec. 2020
  • One day in mid-October, Ramos ate the shelter’s undercooked lasagna and soon started feeling violently ill.
    Rick Jervis, USA TODAY, 2 Nov. 2022
  • The way the resort’s handful of guests sometimes wander around in stupors before becoming violently ill is enough to make Gretchen suspect something is amiss.
    Charles Pulliam-Moore, The Verge, 9 Aug. 2024
  • Some officers rushed outside, gasped for air and became violently ill after walking inside the dark, dingy property that had no electricity and reeked of death.
    Stephanie Nolasco, Fox News, 24 Sep. 2023
  • People can get rashes from bathing in the river or become violently ill from drinking the water, suffering nausea and diarrhea at the height of the ceremonies.
    Jeremy Deaton, Scientific American, 10 Aug. 2020
  • Activist Pyotyr Verzilov was flown to Berlin for treatment after falling violently ill in 2018.
    Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2020
  • Two days later, Amaya became violently ill, shivering with high temperatures and crying constantly.
    Rick Jervis, USA Today, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Right on cue, sometime in the middle of that night roughly eight hours later, Hickman became violently ill with crippling stomach pain, and continuous vomiting and diarrhea.
    Gretchen Cuda Kroen, cleveland, 10 Oct. 2022
  • Set in 1987 in the Malaysian state of Kedah, the film follows Cheong, a devout believer in folk god Datuk, who suddenly falls violently ill.
    Jeff Ewing, Forbes, 23 June 2021
  • Another alleged incident occurred years earlier during a trip to Greece, when Eric became violently ill after drinking something his wife gave him.
    Minyvonne Burke, NBC news, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Perhaps the most moving scene in the production is when Martin’s Molina tends to González’s Valentin, who has soiled himself after becoming violently ill.
    Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Dozens of hikers visiting Havasupai Falls at the bottom of the Grand Canyon have reported falling violently ill with a mysterious sickness.
    Christina Coulter, Fox News, 14 June 2024
  • Open all hours of the day and night to people who are often victims of violence or violently ill, ERs fill with patients and their families who frequently unleash their frustration and aggression on the very people trying to help them.
    jsonline.com, 10 Dec. 2020
  • Without the slightest premonition of any issues with his health, Pyotr Verzilov, a Russian opposition activist, suddenly fell violently ill two years ago and slipped into a coma, a common problem for opponents of the Kremlin.
    Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2020

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