How to Use unwell in a Sentence

unwell

adjective

• I am sorry she is feeling unwell.
• Miss Bennett, are you unwell?
• When his crew returned to earth at the end of June, Leonov was already unwell.
  — Fox News, 11 Oct. 2019
• But drugs and surgery don’t fix the systemic issues that make children unwell in the first place.
  — Isabella Cueto, STAT, 17 July 2023
• The police shoot a mentally unwell man in front of her.
  — Clay Risen, New York Times, 4 May 2024
• But this week, the museum broke the bad news on social media that the 14-year-old is unwell.
  — James Griffiths, CNN, 14 May 2021
• At the time, Clare was in his late forties and mentally unwell.
  — Robert MacFarlane, The New York Review of Books, 15 June 2021
• Because my parents have both been unwell and my cat ...
  — Becca Longmire, Peoplemag, 3 May 2024
• The part of the body making that decision is unwell and not functioning the way it is supposed to.
  — Sharon Grigsby, Dallas News, 13 Apr. 2021
• The next day, her mother also felt unwell and sought testing, too.
  — Tessa Duvall, The Courier-Journal, 20 Nov. 2020
• The 18-year-old Olympic gymnast gave it her all last Monday, all while feeling unwell.
  — Rebecca Norris, Good Housekeeping, 7 Nov. 2021
• Signs throughout the grounds advise guests to mask up, keep 6 feet of space from others and stay home if feeling unwell.
  — Kathleen Christiansen, orlandosentinel.com, 26 Dec. 2020
• Some people get the flu shot and feel totally fine, while others may feel a bit unwell.
  — Korin Miller, SELF, 21 Oct. 2022
• But no rapid test is perfect, Pekosz said, and anyone who feels even a little bit unwell should stay home.
  — Katie Shepherd, Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2022
• Kanye West, now known as Ye, appears to many of us who have closely followed his career to be unwell.
  — Aron Solomon, Fortune, 8 Dec. 2022
• Around the same time, Wilson said his wife started feeling unwell.
  — David Montesino, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Jan. 2024
• He was said to be too unwell to attend one previous hearing even by video link.
  — Palko Karasz, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2019
• And people who feel unwell or have recently been exposed to someone with the virus should stay home.
  — Jim Daley, Scientific American, 14 Oct. 2020
• Private David Lewis was hiking with his platoon through the snow, despite feeling unwell from the flu.
  — Roxanne Khamsi, National Geographic, 30 June 2020
• So the first symptoms have been fever, feeling unwell, backache, muscle aches, and then followed by a rash.
  — Abc News, ABC News, 19 Aug. 2022
• Giulia had been unwell for the past few weeks, agitated and unable to sleep.
  — Anna Davies, Cosmopolitan, 5 May 2017
• But over the next 10 days, Jack felt increasingly unwell.
  — Pam Belluck, New York Times, 17 May 2020
• Zuma survived after Red gave him a blood transfer, and the nurse alerted the agents that Red left looking unwell.
  — Henry Chandonnet, Peoplemag, 14 July 2023
• DePape is clearly unwell and, according to his ex-partner, has been for a long time.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 31 Oct. 2022
• The cause of the crash is still being investigated but it’s believed that the 40-year-old driver may have been unwell before the tragedy.
  — Gabrielle Rockson, Peoplemag, 4 Oct. 2023
• Previously, the hotel told CNN that Cox had felt unwell and had to be taken to the hospital.
  — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 17 June 2019
• His death was announced by his nephew, Norman Meek, who said the 87 year-old had been unwell for a number of weeks and died at his home in Liverpool on March 27.
  — Richard Smirke, Billboard, 29 Mar. 2019
• Hand, foot and mouth disease symptoms include fever, eating or drinking less due to sores in the mouth, sore throat and feeling unwell.
  — Leada Gore | [e-mail], al, 25 Aug. 2022
• The aspiring singer explained that her mother had seen other signs of her daughter being unwell, recalling a moment when Andrea discovered slashes along her wrists.
  — Marc Griffin, VIBE.com, 18 Oct. 2024
• Haddix and the other people (almost always women) who are featured as pet chimpanzee owners come off as deeply unwell, obsessed and potentially delusional about them.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 18 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 11 Dec 2024