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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.