How to Use malady in a Sentence

malady

noun
  • Jaylen Brown has already dealt with the worst of his maladies.
    Adam Himmelsbach, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Apr. 2023
  • Cancer is still, and has been for a long time, the emperor of all maladies.
    Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 7 Aug. 2019
  • Many cannot afford to pay the $2 for a course of 21 pills or do not diagnose the malady in time.
    The Economist, 8 June 2019
  • At the same time, CBD has been touted to help with a range of additional maladies.
    David Wharton, chicagotribune.com, 22 Oct. 2019
  • Edward is in the grip of a grotesque malady that causes his flesh to desiccate and slough away.
    Sam Sacks, WSJ, 17 June 2022
  • Death has begun to reveal itself to them, in the form of burnout, high blood pressure and other maladies.
    Jesse Green, New York Times, 5 June 2023
  • These stopped the bleeding, but the precise cause of this latest malady is yet to be determined.
    Jim Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Dec. 2023
  • Weerasethakul develops a new choreography for the dance of love, the malady of love.
    The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2022
  • Now one of those maladies has caught up with Dianne — who, at age 89, is better known as Sen. Feinstein.
    David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2023
  • Eric Paschall has lost his feel around the basket — perhaps a passing malady, but a source of concern right now.
    Bruce Jenkins, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Mar. 2021
  • Brogdon will miss his 13th game, for maladies including strep throat (one), a jammed left pinkie on his non-shooting had (one) and a sore lower back (10).
    J. Michael, Indianapolis Star, 24 Jan. 2020
  • That changed when a patient came in with an unusual malady.
    Gabe Allen, Discover Magazine, 19 Sep. 2021
  • Among the human body’s many maladies, few have stumped medical researchers like those that decimate the brain.
    Bret Stetka, Scientific American, 15 Aug. 2019
  • This was in response to a question about why Perkins went undrafted — the next malady to afflict his career.
    Ethan Sears, Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 2021
  • Stanton, who’s played in just three games this year due to shoulder and leg maladies, is at the tail-end of a rehab assignment and should join the Yankees at the beginning of next week.
    Jon Tayler, SI.com, 15 June 2019
  • But no single gene seems to be responsible for the malady.
    Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 28 Aug. 2023
  • Not a poor choice of words but a much better nonmedical malady than what had been hanging over the event for a couple of years due to the pandemic.
    Jevon Phillips, Los Angeles Times, 18 May 2022
  • But the greatest physical and psychological risk posed by these maladies, of course, is to the mother.
    Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Entwined today with Covid is the age-old mental malady called cabin fever.
    The New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2022
  • These literally fell of the bone, and were not greasy, a malady which often impacts chicken wings.
    Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 5 Aug. 2021
  • The malady sidelined him for all but 29 games last year—and it through focused PT and training, the 32-year-old Portland Trailblazers megastar was ready to return to the court this year.
    Brett Williams, Men's Health, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Reps for the band pointed to the group’s Twitter post and did not immediately respond to questions about the nature of Maines’ malady.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 20 June 2022
  • In the shared torment of that winter’s cold and mud and dark, a new breed had been inoculated, to large extent, against an ancient malady.
    Richard Brady, National Review, 31 Aug. 2019
  • Men, meanwhile, had long been able to visit the shop of the local barber-surgeon for a haircut or other services, such as pulling teeth and blood letting to treat maladies.
    Marc Bain, Quartz, 27 Apr. 2020
  • After decades of research, scientists still aren’t certain who, or what, is spreading this strange malady around the world.
    Brendan Borrell, The Atlantic, 3 July 2020
  • Diseased trees have also been found on Long Island in New York state, some 800 kilometers from the malady's ground zero.
    Gabriel Popkin, Science | AAAS, 14 Nov. 2019
  • The calamity engulfing generic-drug stocks has many causes, but they are all made worse by one simple malady: too much debt.
    Charley Grant, WSJ, 2 June 2019
  • One of the great governmental marvels of the past 40 years was the Federal Reserve’s complete conquest of this malady.
    Steve Chapman, chicagotribune.com, 11 June 2021
  • There is no evidence that the products are effective at treating those maladies.
    Erin Allday, SFChronicle.com, 18 Sep. 2019
  • Six miners became ill with a mystery malady in 2012 after clearing bat guano from a mine in southwest China, and three died.
    al, 25 May 2021

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