How to Use ill in a Sentence

ill

1 of 3 adjective

• They had been subjected to months of ill treatment.
• That dog can eat almost anything with no ill effects.
• For better or ill, the press is the only place to get such a thing.
  — Sebastian Junger, National Review, 25 Jan. 2024
• Eclipses appear as ill omens in Shakespeare and, of course, the Bible.
  — John Penner, Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2024
• At least that day, no one from the kitchen crew had called in sick or had to stay home with an ill child.
  — Hannah Poukish, The Mercury News, 25 Mar. 2024
• But when Sara’s father falls ill, she’s forced to return home and face the ghosts of her past.
  — Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 6 July 2023
• Burke fell ill March 10 while on a spring break trip to Mexico with Clements and a group of friends.
  — David Aaro, ajc, 10 May 2023
• There was a time when founder Fred DeLuca was ill for years and put his sister in charge.
  — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 7 July 2023
• All five of the patients had been in Tecate within two weeks of becoming ill.
  — Melissa Rudy, Fox News, 11 Dec. 2023
• A week later, three of the four guests were dead, and the other was seriously ill.
  — Rachel Pannett, Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2023
• And so there’s a lot of stuff, for good or for ill, that is circulating in public.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 15 July 2023
• Texas authorities did not say where the child was from or why the child became ill.
  — Claire Thornton, USA TODAY, 12 Aug. 2023
• On the other side of the ball is an addict who is seriously ill.
  — Blake Apgar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 Aug. 2023
• Whether that bodes ill for Gunderson remains to be seen.
  — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Sep. 2023
• The locals have come to believe the child is some sort of demon, bringing ill fortune to their village.
  — Brian Lowry, CNN, 13 Oct. 2023
• For good or ill, anything linked to the military is seen in some corners of D.C.’s elite class as sacrosanct.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 6 July 2023
• In the subsequent six months, three more Indonesians fell ill with beriberi.
  — Los Angeles Times, 7 Nov. 2023
• The stranger asked to see Patrick, but after he was informed that the parson was ill in bed, the encounter took an unsettling turn.
  — V.m. Braganza, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Oct. 2023
• Overall, 85 people became ill, all under the age of 16.
  — Erika Edwards, NBC News, 9 Nov. 2023
• For decades, mentally ill people have been left to fend for themselves.
  — The San Diego Union-Tribune Staff, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Feb. 2024
• For years before Jordan Neely, a mentally ill homeless man, was killed in the subway, the city had its eye on him.
  — Andy Newman, New York Times, 13 May 2023
• Regrettably, Marty had been too ill to travel to New York that day.
  — Kai Bird, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Feb. 2024
• But by mid-2005, Morrisseau was ill and living in a nursing home.
  — Jordan Michael Smith, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Feb. 2024
• While the rest of us have been just going on with our lives, Drake appears to still be harboring some ill feelings about Kanye West.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 5 Oct. 2023
• Not letting people's words or ill intentions be a reason to hold my arms close again.
  — Emily Strohm, Peoplemag, 2 Aug. 2023
• Central Michigan played without quarterback Bert Emanuel, Jr. who was ill and did not make the trip.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 16 Sep. 2023
• The child, who has not been publicly identified, became ill as the Turkish Airlines flight was headed to the U.S., the airline said in a statement.
  — Chantal Da Silva, NBC News, 12 June 2023
• Left back Jordi Alba was out ill and missing from the starting lineup.
  — Michelle Kaufman, Miami Herald, 8 Mar. 2024
• Eating the meat from a deer that is visibly ill with EHD is not recommended.
  — Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 29 Feb. 2024
• Editors’ Picks By the 1840s, there were some high-profile trials in cases where women who had or sought abortions became very ill or died.
  — Pam Belluck, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2024

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ill

2 of 3 adverb

• Please don't think ill of me.
• He was a good man who never spoke ill of anyone.
• He is being ill served by his advisers.
• Your blinds are out of style or ill-fitting on new windows.
  — Jodhaira Rodriguez, Good Housekeeping, 10 Feb. 2023
• The children, ages 12 to 16, fell ill and were evaluated at the scene.
  — Christian Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2023
• Joe: The Rise of Cobra are among those whose that creatives have spoken ill of.
  — Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 May 2023
• The 14-year-old boy fell ill along the trail and lost consciousness, park officials said.
  — Francisco Guzman, USA TODAY, 25 June 2023
• From there, the clip takes a sad turn, as the pair’s idyllic escape to the country is soon marred by one of them falling ill.
  — Dan Heching, CNN, 29 July 2023
• For weeks, the region went quiet, as people fell ill and stayed home.
  — Dake Kang, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Dec. 2022
• In 2016, Patrick fell ill with cancer, and Mike welcomed him home to Shreveport.
  — David D. Kirkpatrick, The New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2024
• Not the wee morning hours under the cover of night but the full-on sunlight of day, so ill-suited to haunting.
  — Mariana Enriquez, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2023
• One in 5 of the state’s 100 lockups have no air conditioning, and dozens of inmates and guards fall ill each year.
  — Dallas News, 19 Jan. 2023
• Michael Cranfield fell ill on his way home from a two-week trip to Canada, his brother said.
  — Ovetta Wiggins, Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2023
• More than 700 people fell ill in four states and three other children died as well.
  — Leanne Italie, Hartford Courant, 22 Oct. 2022
• Most of these are small and mid-market teams who could ill-afford a drastic the financial hit.
  — Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 29 Jan. 2023
• The team’s security specialist was the first to fall ill.
  — Bishop Sand, Washington Post, 17 Feb. 2024
• The odd jobs that kept them afloat disappeared during the shutdowns, food prices soared and then his father fell ill.
  — Hannah Dreier Meridith Kohut, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2023
• And since the women can’t even read, they’re bound to be ill-prepared for modern life away from the community.
  — Kyle Smith, WSJ, 22 Dec. 2022
• Although their romance is somewhat ill-fated, the two still fall in love — hardships and all.
  — Adrianna Freedman, Good Housekeeping, 26 Dec. 2022
• In the weeks that followed, about seven people in two villages in the eastern province of Kié-Ntem fell ill and died.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 22 Mar. 2023
• In many ways, her son is half her ex-husband, so speaking ill of the boy’s father only hurts her own son.
  — Annie Lane, oregonlive, 16 July 2023
• For the time being, betting on either of those outcomes would seem ill-advised.
  — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 18 Nov. 2022
• Many Americans who fall ill have no choice but to rack up debt in order to stay healthy or, in some cases, stay alive.
  — Michele Grim, Fortune, 10 Mar. 2023
• The boy’s father said his wife and child both fell ill around noon on Tuesday, showing signs of gas poisoning.
  — Nectar Gan, CNN, 3 Nov. 2022
• Through its own forecasts, the BOE seems to be saying that tightening as much as the market thinks would be ill advised.
  — Jon Sindreu, WSJ, 3 Nov. 2022
• After all, not all solo hikers are ill prepared, and not everyone is in it for the thrift.
  — Shikha Tripathi, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Mar. 2023
• Her lawyers argued that their nanny did not witness him acting ill or use an EpiPen.
  — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 12 June 2023
• His wife, Jennifer and daughter, Brooke, moved back briefly last year while Jennifer cared for her mother, who fell ill and died in May.
  — Alexis Cubit, The Courier-Journal, 8 Dec. 2022
• Doctors were still unsure of what caused Gold to fall ill at that point and the absence would eventually span the full 2022 season.
  — Michael Casagrande | [e-mail], al, 21 July 2023
• Largely, what this game comes down to is the Titans defense is ill-equipped to defend the Jaguars’ preferred method of attack on offense.
  — Nick Hennion, Chicago Tribune, 7 Jan. 2023

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ill

3 of 3 noun

• The state doesn’t have enough intensive care unit beds to treat the ill.
  — al, 9 Sep. 2021
• But the Season Three finale didn’t cure all of that year’s ills.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 10 Nov. 2023
• Still, the ills of white supremacy are at work there as well, dating back to the Gold Rush days.
  — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 6 June 2023
• And burdening the rest of us with all the related ills.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 1 Feb. 2024
• The horror genre can be a handy metaphor for all sorts of societal ills.
  — Dallas News, 22 Feb. 2023
• No public inquiry can deal with all of the ills that have driven weeks of protests.
  — The Economist, 20 Aug. 2019
• Those are the ills that led to the deadly showdown between the two sons of Omaha.
  — Stuart Miller, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2023
• That kind of profit growth can cure a lot of ills, and the Big Three have agreed to raise their employees' pay.
  — Marley Jay, NBC News, 14 Sep. 2023
• All these social ills have worsened, and the collapse is more than moral.
  — Dominic Green, Washington Examiner, 12 Jan. 2024
• New Orleans has struggled in the red zone all season and Hill appears to be the cure for those ills.
  — Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Oct. 2023
• Progressives clash with centrists over the scope and speed of the changes needed to address the country’s ills.
  — Michael Bobelian, Washington Post, 29 June 2023
• The Russian leader falsely blames the United States and its allies for the world’s ills, including the war in Gaza.
  — Robyn Dixon, Washington Post, 14 Nov. 2023
• Aliou Sullivan first learned about the ills of fossil fuels in fourth grade.
  — Sonali Kohli, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2019
• This societal ill seemed to peak with Princess Diana’s death in 1997 but has only gotten worse in the decades since.
  — Michelle Ruiz, Vogue, 26 Oct. 2021
• The only protection against these ills were spells cast by the deceased Ankh herself.
  — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Jan. 2020
• Wellness, Blei wrote, is in part a response to societal ills.
  — Brittney McNamara, Teen Vogue, 27 Jan. 2020
• This is not to suggest that cities like Detroit don't suffer from many urban ills.
  — John Gallagher, Detroit Free Press, 18 July 2019
• The same spirit that fought against the ills of the past keeps remaking and reforming itself for today.
  — Caille Millner, SFChronicle.com, 8 Nov. 2019
• For the past 30+ years, millions of Americans have blamed MSG for a host of health ills, even though countless studies have proven that myth false.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Apr. 2023
• Pity people that speak ill of others because while some of us r dancing, the others r too afraid.
  — Megan Stein, Country Living, 22 Feb. 2020
• Jackson describes a litany of social ills, from hunger and homelessness to crime and drug abuse, all set to a grinding new-jack bassline.
  — Sal Cinquemani, Billboard, 19 Sep. 2019
• That part of us that stands in protest to the ills of the physical world is, in fact, evidence of our perpetual nature.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 24 Nov. 2023
• Some days the ills of the city seem miasmal and mental, a delirium of drugs and dysfunctions, a souring in the gut like dysentery.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Feb. 2023
• Have a cup of coffee with Paul Ruiz and expect to hear him rail about societal ills that need attention.
  — Elaine Ayala, ExpressNews.com, 24 Oct. 2019
• The economic valuation of life is at the root of the variety of ills enacted by and through the health care system.
  — Abby Cartus, The New Republic, 23 Feb. 2023
• The trio discusses the ills of the city, nation and world until a waitress arrives at their table bearing a heavy tray with their meals.
  — Vincent T. Davis, ExpressNews.com, 7 Oct. 2019
• Fixing the GOP’s dwindling pipeline of talent, and the party’s broader ills, is an even harder task.
  — Elizabeth N. Saunders, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
• One primary concern is that teaching about these ills can make people feel bad and ashamed.
  — J. Luke Wood, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Mar. 2023
• Incongruous slavery hook doesn’t work, but lots of Velázquez and Murillo cure all ills.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 17 June 2023
• While the bulk of the paper focused on the ills of unfettered freeway-building, its final pages turned to the topic that would define the group’s legacy.
  — John Aguilar, The Denver Post, 29 June 2019

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024