Below you will find example sentences with "sick days". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.

Sick Days in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: sick
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 7
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 25.8 words

Words in this phrase

sick days

Meanings of words in this phrase

  • sick can mean: In poor health; ill. Frequent word
  • days can mean: plural of day Common word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 4 start, 5 middle, 11 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Usage patterns

These patterns show short text windows around the phrase in the example sentences:

fewest accumulated sick days 1× increase in sick days 1× leave paid sick days and care 1× no paid sick days 1× of all sick days in the 1× of paid sick days 1× of seven sick days a year 1× off and sick days are nice 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

according to cbi 1× additionally their current 1× brisebois said she 1× dallas business manager 1× davis gates said 1× dormuth said she 1×

Common sentence endings:

paid sick days 2× accumulated sick days 1× an ill kid 1× and care economy 1× calling off sick 1× days a year 1×

Context words

These words often appear near this phrase in the example sentences:

paid 9× workers 5× leave 4× off 4× provide 3× work 3× teachers 3× want 3× give 2× year 2× take 2× use 2×

Related phrases

seven days few days presently days currently days five days four days sick leave two days days week days ago

Phrases around this combination

Other phrases discovered around sick:

get sick 10× got sick 9×

Just before it in the phrase index:

shut off shut down shri ram showing signs showing off showers likely

Just after it in the phrase index:

sick leave sickle cell side dish side dishes side effects side entrance

Other phrases with the same pattern

Same start:

sick leave

Same ending:

seven days few days presently days currently days five days four days

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "sick days" has 2 words and usually appears near the end in these examples. The average sentence has 25.8 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as fewest accumulated sick days, increase in sick days, paid, workers and leave stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with seven days, few days, presently days, get sick and got sick, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with sick days

This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:

Short example sentences

Paid sick days to take care of an ill kid. (10 words)

In some districts, teachers are taking more sick days since the pandemic. (12 words)

We see this with the rail workers’ struggle for an increase in sick days. (14 words)

Longer example sentences

In 2022, there were a number of key changes, including one that ensured tips given by customers are distributed fairly and not kept by management, as well as the introduction of an entitlement to three paid sick days per year. (40 words)

Dormuth said she wants the province to provide more help to small businesses by paying for provincially mandated sick days, using WorkSafe BC's surplus revenue to create rebates, and increasing B.C.'s employer health tax exemption threshold. (39 words)

Most of these deals provide workers with four days of paid sick time and give them the option to convert three leave days into sick time to give workers a total of seven sick days a year. (37 words)

Example sentences (20)

Most of these deals provide workers with four days of paid sick time and give them the option to convert three leave days into sick time to give workers a total of seven sick days a year.

I have done my best considering how sick I have been and have a right to take sick days.

I have so many sick days while some of my colleagues have very, very few because they have to use it for maternity and for when their kids are sick,” Ramroth said.

Those would include, he said, extending sick leave to 40 hours or more, making it easier for workers to claim sick days and providing more aggressive disinfection of work areas.

Dallas Business Manager Grant Palfey said the district hopes the increase would provide an incentive for teachers to accumulate sick days, instead of calling off sick.

While paid time off and sick days are nice, when living in Idaho there are days that people need and want to stay home due to the weather.

Over half of those surveyed said they have never pulled a sickie in their career, while 28% said they have begun using remote working days as a substitute for sick days.

In January 2019, the Ford government reduced job-protected personal emergency leave from 10 to eight days, with no paid sick days.

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No, I'm taking two sick days because I want a couple days off and don't want to use my vacation time.

Davis Gates said the unfairness falls hardest on newer teachers with the fewest accumulated sick days.

Dormuth said she wants the province to provide more help to small businesses by paying for provincially mandated sick days, using WorkSafe BC's surplus revenue to create rebates, and increasing B.C.'s employer health tax exemption threshold.

In 2022, there were a number of key changes, including one that ensured tips given by customers are distributed fairly and not kept by management, as well as the introduction of an entitlement to three paid sick days per year.

Many of the union members voted to reject tentative labor agreements that offered them an immediate 14% raise, including backpay, because of the lack of paid sick days.

We see this with the rail workers’ struggle for an increase in sick days.

Additionally, their current contract includes only six sick days and does not include paid time off.

In some districts, teachers are taking more sick days since the pandemic.

Paid sick days to take care of an ill kid.

The report focuses on five major policy areas: low-wage work and minimum wage, unemployment insurance, paid leave, paid sick days, and care economy.

According to CBI research, business leaders spend about a fifth of their time dealing with workplace disagreements and yet work-related stress accounts for more than half of all sick days in the UK.

Brisebois said she was “not hearing any thing specific on unpaid sick days,” but said some employers were topping up workers’ employment insurance payments or creating special funds for employees who need to self-isolate.

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