How to Use sicker in a Sentence

sicker

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• While all the boys had the virus, Henry was sicker than the others.
  — Nataly Keomoungkhoun, Dallas News, 8 Apr. 2021
• But King George fell ill, then grew sicker and died in 1952.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 20 Nov. 2024
• The more problems there are, the sicker the patient is likely to be.
  — John C. Goodman, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
• Spring came, and my father got sicker and sicker, more and more frail.
  — Emily Ziff Griffin, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2024
• Patients with the virus tend to be sicker than flu patients and require more staff.
  — al, 10 Dec. 2020
• Patients who have two variants in the gene will likely be much sicker, much faster.
  — Ellen Matloff, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
• The sicker the patient is, the higher their risk score, and the bigger the check insurers receive from the government.
  — Hyacinth Empinado, STAT, 25 July 2024
• Research has long shown that Black people live sicker lives and die younger than white people.
  — Liz Szabo | Kff Health News, NBC News, 16 May 2023
• Yet when the time came for her release, Miles said, Moshe urged her captors to take an older, sicker woman in her place.
  — Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 28 Nov. 2023
• In many, patients are younger and sicker than before, doctors say.
  — Melissa Mahtani, CNN, 3 Aug. 2021
• But over the next several months, Raphael became sicker as the largest blood vessel in his body narrowed.
  — Jessica Herzberg, NBC News, 17 Oct. 2024
• In the years since, pandemic, war and inflation have left a lot of the world sicker, poorer and angrier.
  — Greg Ip, WSJ, 4 Jan. 2024
• Nation/World Research has long shown that Black people live sicker lives and die younger than white people.
  — Liz Szabo, Anchorage Daily News, 17 May 2023
• Why, then, are employees sicker and more stressed than ever?
  — Andrew Deutscher, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024
• Already, doctors know that people who get both the flu and a cold at the same time tend to be sicker than those who are only infected with one virus.
  — Alice Park, Time, 11 Oct. 2022
• The problem is that this may drive up costs considerably for the sicker folks who remain on ACA exchange plans.
  — Joshua P. Cohen, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024
• And this winter, the patients being hospitalized seem sicker than those from the spring, said Poe.
  — al, 8 Dec. 2020
• The kids are sicker than in past waves, and nearly all are unvaccinated.
  — Caroline Catherman, orlandosentinel.com, 25 Aug. 2021
• And if a patient becomes sicker or dies, the question of who is liable becomes an issue.
  — Sanya Mansoor, TIME, 9 Feb. 2024
• Those who are sicker subsidize those who are better off.
  — Bill Cassidy, STAT, 5 July 2023
• The sicker an individual, the higher the stakes — and the more common these errors become.
  — Adam Rodman, STAT, 3 May 2024
• Back in the spring, when the virus was ripping through long-term care facilities at a merciless rate, each patient who arrived seemed to be sicker than the next.
  — Hanna Krueger, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Jan. 2021
• In general, the sicker the member, the bigger the capitation.
  — Don Lee, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2023
• While the region has bright spots — its school test scores are routinely among the best in the state — its residents are poorer and sicker than most Virginians.
  — Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2021
• Thoughts change the world, and cynicism is turning ours into a meaner, sadder, sicker place.
  — Jamil Zaki, TIME, 3 Sep. 2024
• Timothy Schmitt, head of the transplant unit there, said his patients are waiting much longer and need to become much sicker now to receive a transplant.
  — Malena Carollo and Ben Tanen, al, 22 Mar. 2023
• That meant patients were sicker and staying at the hospital for longer leading to challenges the hospital had to overcome.
  — Sarah Lapidus, The Arizona Republic, 15 Nov. 2022
• The wealthy companies get paid, and our citizens get sicker and less productive.
  — Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 3 Dec. 2024
• In addition to age, Americans as a whole are getting sicker.
  — Rachel Murphy, Verywell Health, 8 Mar. 2023
• Long before the coronavirus pandemic, people on the South Side have been sicker and have had poorer health outcomes.
  — Laura Garcia, San Antonio Express-News, 20 Apr. 2022

Last Updated: 14 Jan 2025