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Example sentences for "ailing"

Lexicographically close words:
ailed; aileron; ailerons; ailes; aileth; aille; ailleurs; ailment; ailments; ails
  1. The journey must be made slowly, since there were little children and ailing women in the party.

  2. He had formed a friendship with a lad of his own age, Peter Zenger by name, who, with his ailing father, had suffered as the Weisers had suffered and who had a similar longing for the new land.

  3. The young and feeble ought to be separated from the others, and the ailing ones placed by themselves; and that no one may suffer from the others, all should be classed as uniformly as possible as to strength.

  4. He presented a fine sheep, and reported that Seyed Majid was dead--he had been ailing and fell from some part of his new house at Darsalam, and in three days afterwards expired.

  5. He nodded, then put his arm round mine, and helped me in, as if he had been a big elder brother, and I a little ailing child.

  6. We knew the invalid had been ailing all the week, nor had we seen him or his daughter once.

  7. And tender human kindness, which is as nourishing to the ailing little ones as mother's milk?

  8. Is it not rather a blessed demonstration of His fidelity to his profession to go to such ailing people?

  9. Helpless, powerless, hopeless creature, how could he cancel the curse that rested upon soul and body and ailing earth?

  10. I am thinking of the dog's life I shall lead as long as that sickly, ailing brat is under our roof, and no one will reward me for my pains.

  11. Let me tell you, however, that the weakness of an ailing man is not so repulsive as the rude strength of a coarse woman.

  12. She has become rather more interesting by being ailing of late, which has brought a new visitor to the Hall, in the person of a young doctor.

  13. He paid a short visit to Lady Robert at Cumnor, and professed deepest concern to find in her a pallor and an ailing air which no one else had yet observed.

  14. But in what way will these things appear to the individual with an ailing body and a distempered brain?

  15. Yet all man's life is but ailing and dim, And rest upon earth comes never.

  16. Only on Tuesday my wife returned from nursing an ailing relative.

  17. Nora has a sweetheart and is to be married; Annie has invented the excuse of an ailing mother, because she dares not stay alone with me.

  18. Augustina was very ailing and querulous, and Laura was made to feel that it was her fault.

  19. Augustina had been constantly ailing or fretful; either unwilling to be left alone, or possessed by absurd desires for useless trifles, only to be satisfied by Laura's going to shop in Whinthorpe.

  20. He was no longer the feeble old man with the slow, jerky walk and the slender, scraggy neck of a poor ailing bird.

  21. Pierre began to feel deep compassion for this ailing man, whose feverish brain was haunted by nightmares, and whose life was being finally wrecked by the anguish of persecution mania.

  22. It is the stuff that was once given to an ailing coloured woman, and when she was offered a second dose she declared with vigour, "No thankee!

  23. Being young and light they had flown gracefully to their chosen roost and doubtless could not understand what was ailing him when he sprawled around like that.

  24. Ye told him I was ailing and couldna see him the day, Jeanie?

  25. He was corpulent, and had been ailing many days; his blood became heated, and gave him a fever.

  26. Each of these magic persons also has handed to him a portion of a perineal band belonging to, and recently worn by, the ailing chief.

  27. Would any medical practitioner, called to the house of a wealthy man to examine his ailing child, purposely defer its physical examination until after this eye-test had been applied?

  28. He carried a walking-stick freshly cut from the forest and his ailing cowskin boots were white with dust.

  29. He had been so ailing the last day or two that he had been obliged to stay upstairs with Dick's companionship as his only solace, and his cousin had persuaded him to say good-bye to Jane there.

  30. The ailing and the infirm," he said, staring at her fixedly, "are treated by the kind folk about them like children.


  31. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ailing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    bad; diseased; down; faint; feeble; frail; ghastly; ill; indisposed; infirm; invalid; low; mean; offish; peaky; poorly; rocky; seedy; sick; sickly; sort; tender; unhealthy; unsound; unwell