get sick

Example Sentences

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“Aleks feels the same. But I think it would be nice to also have some time in life to not be 100% all effort into this sport, to have a little bit of a grace period where we can just be together, enjoy life, visit family, celebrate with a glass of wine, and actually be OK with that, get sick and not be worried about it. All of those kinds of things.”

From The Wall Street Journal

And when I get sick, he doesn’t give me lemon and honey tea the way she always did.

From Literature

It’s important to look beyond monthly premium costs to out-of-pocket costs if you get sick or hospitalized.

From Barron's

That it’s going to be awful, and hard, and I’ll probably get sick from all the germs crawling on those kids who don’t understand how to properly take care of their health.

From Literature

“Even now I get sick to my stomach thinking about it. Something terrible could have happened. And it was at that moment I knew I had to make a change. A real change. I was so lost. I felt like I was failing you as a mother. First, I thought maybe I’d try to track down your father. Maybe getting to know him would give you—us—some stability. But I realized that was almost impossible. I didn’t even know his last name.”

From Literature