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
“If the amiable devil should be moved to sacrifice now, I would be the nearest to his hand––think you he would make ill use of my youth and tenderness?”
From The Flute of the Gods by Ryan, Marah Ellis
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
For thine own good I would not have thee strive, nor make ill blood And shame about thee….
From The Trojan women of Euripides by Euripides
