Example sentences for: illness

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

  • While a rare, serious complication could lead to a protracted illness, we felt that the problem of resolving the relative contributions of underlying and acute disease in these settings would introduce substantial error, and provide relatively little additional information.

  • As distinguished from medicines that relieve pain or cure illness, many drugs in this category have failed to meet financial expectations.

  • The severity of illness was classified according to this definition (Table 1).

  • Brodkey expresses enormous ambivalence about his own later-life adventures in homosexuality, referring, at one unsavory moment, to his illness as "the wages of sin."

  • His boyhood was marked by immersion in astronomy and telescope-making, but saddened by the painful illness of his sister.


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