Ailment

//ˈeɪlmənt//

"Ailment" in a Sentence (11 examples)

The doctor said that this ailment is incurable.

After receiving treatment for a stomach ailment acquired while traveling overseas, Tom and Mary endured weeks of horrendous abdominal gas from the prescribed antibiotics.

“This man had every conceivable physical ailment toward the end, yet he never complained,” Lord said, sending his friend off in a note of admiration.

The doctor, entering the treatment room, asked the patient, "Are you the appendix?" – in so doing, reducing the person to his ailment.

Johnny Depp's daughter is reportedly recovering from an unspecified serious ailment.

The World Health Organization says 184 countries have now joined the COVID-19 global vaccine alliance, known as COVAX, designed to speed development and ensure distribution of viable vaccines and treatments for the ailment caused by the coronavirus.

The doctor immediately began to look for the cause of Boldi's ailment.

He got over his ailment.

Their ailment, they alone experience it.

Her ailment, she alone experiences it.

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He had always been remarkably immune from such little ailments, and had only once in his life been ill, of a vicious pneumonia long ago at school. He hadn't the faintest idea what to with a cold in the head, he just took quinine and continued to blow his nose.

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