make ill

Example Sentences

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Most people were born at home and died at home, and medicine’s principal function was to make ill people as comfortable as possible while nature healed them or killed them.

From Washington Post • Jun. 27, 2017

This is certainly acting the part of an orator, and if in any respect he attacks the profession, it is on account of those who make ill use of eloquence.

From The Training of a Public Speaker by Kleiser, Grenville

It would only make ill worse to speak of it as we rode together in the litter.

From The Lost Continent by Hyne, Charles John Cutcliffe Wright

Also, you noise abroad that my lord Arthur is slain, and that is not so, and therefore you will make ill work in the land.'

From The Book of Romance by Ford, H. J. (Henry Justice)

Thou say'st his meat was sauc'd with thy upbraidings: Unquiet meals make ill digestions; Thereof the raging fire of fever bred; And what's a fever but a fit of madness?

From The Comedy of Errors by Shakespeare, William