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
“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
I know what you think about family, and I don’t want to make ill return for the courtesy and kindness you and Mr. Winthrop have always shown me.”
From David Dunne A Romance of the Middle West by Maniates, Belle Kanaris
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
