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Example sentences for: ailing

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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.
Here and through the spot, she speaks directly to the camera, her earnest face and voice limning with hope the shots of an ailing elder and of single, bleak lines of text that bring the disease to life and the living room.
If he were someone who was an assistant, with an ailing mother to support, well, it would be impossible.
The physical tableau is striking: Netanyahu and Clinton, both "tall and hale" (thanks, NYT ), beside the ailing Arafat in his inevitable headdress and frail, bald King Hussein of Jordan.