Example sentences for: ailing

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • A front-page NYT story says the International Monetary Fund has agreed to bail out the ailing South Korean economy.

  • They've revived an ailing dog ( ER 's Anthony Edwards), spent $700 nursing a rabbit back to health (actress Gretchen Mol), spearheaded efforts to free an inhumanely caged gorilla (Doris Day), and aided African elephants that suffer from "Floppy Trunk Syndrome," a malady that keeps the poor beasts from eating properly (Alicia Silverstone).

  • After drawing Peanuts for nearly 50 years, Charles Schulz, 77 and ailing, is putting down his pen.


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