Example sentences for: ailing

How can you use “ailing” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Everybody fronts an illustration of Charlie Brown, in honor of yesterday's announcement that cartoonist Charles Schulz, aged 77 and ailing with cancer, will retire right after the first of the year.

  • If he were someone who was an assistant, with an ailing mother to support, well, it would be impossible.

  • But these days the besieged tyrant of an ailing country can make the United States look mousy.

  • Within a month of taking office, Tony Blair marked the 150 th anniversary of the Irish potato famine by acknowledging his predecessors' failure to aid an ailing Ireland.

  • The Age of Melbourne headlined its editorial "Putin: the man who rose without trace," and said, "Public attention no longer focuses primarily on the ailing Mr Yeltsin's erratic policy-making, or even on the widespread corruption, ballooning debt and huge disparities of wealth that have arisen during the over-rapid privatisation of the Russian economy.


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