Sickness

//ˈsɪknɪs//

"Sickness" in a Sentence (14 examples)

There has been a lot of sickness in my family this winter.

Health is not valued until sickness comes.

Germs can cause sickness.

Sickness kept me from attending the party.

Eating too much may lead to sickness.

His long sickness ran him into debt.

Fever indicates sickness.

It took her four months to recover from her sickness.

She is absent because of sickness.

After her sickness, she's only a shadow of her former self.

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I do lament the sickness of the king.

18th century, Alexander Pope, Epistle to Miss Blount Trust not too much your now resistless charms; Those, age or sickness soon or late disarms.

Sickness is a dangerous indulgence at my time of life.

We can now return to the question of how we treat the phenomenon of dative sickness (the possibility of substituting dative in place of accusative on the experiencer nominal) in Icelandic.

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