sickness

Example Sentences

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"My lower back would always be like really sore and really tight. I get a sickness feeling at some points where you feel like you're going to throw up."

From BBC • Mar. 26, 2026

She is traveling by train to an unnamed city for a book festival, where she will be expected to speak with authority about the war—an assumed connection that fills her with sickness and shame.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

The findings showed that GLP-1 medications, especially semaglutide, were associated with fewer psychiatric-related hospital visits and reduced sickness absence.

From Science Daily • Mar. 22, 2026

That moment came for me earlier this year, after a back-to-back-back trifecta of holidays, sickness and travel.

From Salon • Mar. 9, 2026

He didn’t fall, but she knew from that misstep that Deydey was ill, that he’d hidden his sickness, and that he was going into the cabin with Neewo, never to return.

From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich