fever

Example Sentences

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There was no protection from common childhood illnesses like tuberculosis, rheumatic fever, diphtheria, or whooping cough.

From Literature

By this time, I had the monkey-catching fever so bad, I didn’t think I’d get any sleep at all that night.

From Literature

Gran’s fever raged for the next three days.

From Literature

Malaria is rampant at the camps, and last year, the miner said, he came home to find he had malaria, dengue fever and kidney failure.

From The Wall Street Journal

Nervousness around AI seems to have reached fever pitch.

From Barron's