Wondering how to use Sickness in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as wellness or nausea.
Sickness meaning
- The quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness.
- Nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach.
- The analogical misuse of a rarer or marked grammatical case in the place of a more common or unmarked case.
Synonyms of Sickness
Using Sickness
- The main meaning on this page is: The quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness. | Nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach. | The analogical misuse of a rarer or marked grammatical case in the place of a more common or unmarked case.
- Useful related words include: wellness, nausea, faultiness, defectiveness.
- In the example corpus, sickness often appears in combinations such as: sickness and, the sickness, of sickness.
Context around Sickness
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 8 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Sickness
- In this selection, "sickness" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, decompression, morning, altitude, insurance, benefit and becomes stand out and add context to how "sickness" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include acute mountain sickness begin to and anticipate morning sickness a potentially. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "sickness" sits close to words such as aces, adapting and baltic, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with sickness
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Her father Chris Campbell said: “There was no sickness, no accident. (11 words)
One cannot cure a sickness if you do not know what the sickness is. (14 words)
Decompression sickness results from inadequate reduction in air pressure, following exposure to increased pressure. (14 words)
Dr. Saxon proposes that the battle station’s destruction would create “an enormous burst of gamma-rays and high-energy particles” that would give every being on the side of the moon facing the explosion radiation sickness at best, and death at worst. (43 words)
Many people are familiar with altitude sickness and the effect it has on the body, but many people often fail to realize that there is a severe form of altitude sickness that even people living at higher elevations can fall ill to. (42 words)
Life on a trawler is hard, the days long and tough and extremely cold, and thanks to this she found that she was always hungry for the vast meals the crew cooked and ate down below, sickness or no sickness. (40 words)
Example sentences (20)
Many people are familiar with altitude sickness and the effect it has on the body, but many people often fail to realize that there is a severe form of altitude sickness that even people living at higher elevations can fall ill to.
Further, Villacorta said that sickness benefit is a daily cash allowance paid for the number of days a member cannot work due to sickness or injury.
Life on a trawler is hard, the days long and tough and extremely cold, and thanks to this she found that she was always hungry for the vast meals the crew cooked and ate down below, sickness or no sickness.
One cannot cure a sickness if you do not know what the sickness is.
Decompression sickness becomes a problem * 1841: First documented case of decompression sickness occurs, reported by a mining engineer who observed pain and muscle cramps among coal miners working in mine shafts air-pressurized to keep water out.
If something goes wrong - such as sickness or failure at work - the individual is unclear if karma from past lives was the cause, or the sickness was caused by curable infection and the failure was caused by something correctable.
Sickness Insurance Law of 1883 The first successful bill, passed in 1883, was the Sickness Insurance Bill.
AN Essex resort has said it is closed for the remainder of the week as it continues to face a sickness bug.
As previously reported, Royal Mail announced on Monday, December 11 that some areas of Basingstoke and Deane are experiencing disruption caused by sickness absences, vacancies and an increased demand during the Christmas period.
Decompression sickness results from inadequate reduction in air pressure, following exposure to increased pressure.
Denney said that in August she was mistakenly given medication for depression and anxiety instead of nausea; her morning sickness worsened, and she missed a meal.
Departure to and return from summer holidays seem to be moments especially prone to this sickness’ stealthy advances.
Dr. Saxon proposes that the battle station’s destruction would create “an enormous burst of gamma-rays and high-energy particles” that would give every being on the side of the moon facing the explosion radiation sickness at best, and death at worst.
Expecting women know to anticipate morning sickness, a potentially debilitating side effect that plagues 80% of pregnant women.
Health care providers can be slow to differentiate between the more common “morning sickness” and the rarer but more severe hyperemesis, and to offer treatment, including medications and nutrition, she said.
Here we reveal which schools in Calderdale had the greatest average number of days taken in sickness absence by teachers, including those who were not off sick.
Her father Chris Campbell said: “There was no sickness, no accident.
Her immediate worry was a bout of sickness which saw her pull out of the tournament in Bad Homburg in Germany on Friday morning.
Home-Start helps families by providing support to parents going through difficulties such as sickness, relationship difficulties and feelings of isolation.
If any of the signs of AMS (Acute Mountain Sickness) begin to occur — headache, nausea, dizziness, shortness of breath, or fatigue — descend immediately.
Common combinations with sickness
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- sickness and 27×
- the sickness 22×
- of sickness 12×
- and sickness 11×
- to sickness 10×
- motion sickness 10×
- sickness in 10×
- sickness or 8×
- long-term sickness 8×
- morning sickness 6×