Example sentences for: ills

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

  • Teachers have been made scapegoats for many social ills; it would be a service to acknowledge their occasional courage and virtue in opposing the flatheads of the world, rather than lumping them in with the fools.

  • It is also essential to consider it when weighing the merits or ills of a proposed change in tax rates.

  • For its part, The King of Comedy , a creepy reprise of Taxi Driver --played, this time, for laughs--is a movie made before its time, back when celebrity-stalking was a piquant metaphor for our cultural ills, rather than the focus of our cultural life.

  • These films claimed to warn America about its urban ills, but what Cagney's first breakout hit, The Public Enemy (1931), conveyed was the charisma of the amoral hood.

  • In short, this explanation suggests that inflation--or more precisely the promise of future inflation--is the medicine that will cure Japan's ills.


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