How to Use sicker in a Sentence

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• While all the boys had the virus, Henry was sicker than the others.
  — Nataly Keomoungkhoun, Dallas News, 8 Apr. 2021
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Across the region, doctors say that the patients coming into hospitals are now far younger and far sicker than before.
  — New York Times, 29 Apr. 2021
• Some rare individuals have gotten very ill the second time they’ve been infected, a few even sicker than the first.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 24 Feb. 2021
• After all, Americans widely support the idea that sicker folks should be covered at the same rate as healthier ones.
  — Wendy Netter Epstein, STAT, 3 Nov. 2023
• During the press briefing, Barclay said those viral mutations didn’t make the chickens any sicker.
  — WIRED, 17 Oct. 2023
• Two is will this new version make people sicker than previous versions did?
  — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2022
• Subsequent reporting has revealed Trump was sicker than was disclosed at the time.
  — Jeremy Herb, CNN, 3 Dec. 2021
• Our immune system tends to decline with age, and those over 65 often become sicker when infected.
  — Trisha Pasricha Md and Mph, Anchorage Daily News, 29 May 2023
• On the other hand, mothers in this study may have been slightly sicker than average, says Olivia Man, an internal medicine resident at the Mayo Clinic and the study’s first author.
  — Liz Szabo, Scientific American, 25 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024