under the weather
Example Sentences
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In his opening remarks Friday night, Giuliani coughed and said, “My voice is a little under the weather, so I won’t be able to speak as loudly as I usually do.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 3, 2026
"I felt a bit under the weather, but I was still going about my daily life," she said.
From BBC • Sep. 15, 2025
I kept an open mind, thinking maybe he really was just under the weather that night but it had opened the floodgates of concerns that had been out there for a while.
From Salon • Jul. 22, 2024
The pope has been under the weather for several days.
From New York Times • Feb. 28, 2024
Otto was particularly under the weather that day, so I left him in the care of Mama Marie-France, knocked out by cough syrup, snoring under a tree.
From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer
