On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Sicker. Discover the meaning, how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Sicker meaning
comparative form of sick: more sick.
Using Sicker
- The main meaning on this page is: comparative form of sick: more sick.
- In the example corpus, sicker often appears in combinations such as: sicker and, and sicker, get sicker.
Context around Sicker
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 13 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Sicker
- In this selection, "sicker" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, get, getting, someone, patients, less and country stand out and add context to how "sicker" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a little sicker a little and and getting sicker. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "sicker" sits close to words such as abdulrazaq, adan and adolphus, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with sicker
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
America is sick and getting sicker. (6 words)
That forces patients to get sicker,” she said. (8 words)
Also, the patients who were given the drug tended to be sicker. (12 words)
Rowan Clarke, 32, a part-time video editor and sound designer from Colchester, contracted Covid-19 in 2021 and progressively got “sicker and sicker” to the point where he was in constant pain, could not remember his own phone number and could hardly walk. (44 words)
Being exposed to multiple people who are very sick — the way someone working in a hospital would be — typically makes someone sicker than if they were exposed to only one person who was mildly ill. (35 words)
For years, organs from the dead have been offered first to the sickest patients in the same general area as the donation, even if someone sicker outside the local boundary is a good match. (34 words)
Example sentences (20)
Rowan Clarke, 32, a part-time video editor and sound designer from Colchester, contracted Covid-19 in 2021 and progressively got “sicker and sicker” to the point where he was in constant pain, could not remember his own phone number and could hardly walk.
We are keeping sicker and sicker patients on the wards just because there is no capacity to ventilate them.
According to an he issued in May, isolation doesn’t only feel bad; it also makes us sicker, less safe and less able to deal with our own problems.
Even as he grew sicker at home, he didn’t want to go to the hospital.
Instead, Britain’s becoming an older and sicker country: as interest rates rise, taxes are pushed up.
This reduces incentives to cherry-pick healthy beneficiaries and discriminate against sicker patients," CMS said in a statement.
And when they do get the virus, they tend to be sicker and even die at higher rates than their high-income counterparts.
As my patients grow sicker, and as death approaches, I talk with them and their families about what they can hope for even if a cure isn’t possible.
If it seems like everyone you know is sicker now than ever before, it's not just your imagination.
She has, in short, become an example of a particular kind of health care failure: A patient who says her treatment made her sicker.
That forces patients to get sicker,” she said.
The bump Darby took on the monkey flip on the apron might’ve been even sicker than the one on the chair.
A lot of people develop symptoms and they’re chugging along and they’re doing just fine and then all of a sudden precipitously they get sicker.
Also, the patients who were given the drug tended to be sicker.
America is sick and getting sicker.
And then the next day you start seeing patients coming in a little sicker, a little more short of breath, their oxygen levels a little lower.
And this West in distress is made sicker by defiance of the globe’s existential threat.
As an advanced nurse practitioner in critical care outreach, the 47-year-old sees patients in hospital who are getting sicker and may need to be admitted to intensive care.
Being exposed to multiple people who are very sick — the way someone working in a hospital would be — typically makes someone sicker than if they were exposed to only one person who was mildly ill.
For years, organs from the dead have been offered first to the sickest patients in the same general area as the donation, even if someone sicker outside the local boundary is a good match.
Common combinations with sicker
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: