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Example sentences for "headache"

Lexicographically close words:
heaben; heabenly; heaby; head; headaches; headachy; headband; headbands; headboard
  1. They say she has a neuralgic headache to-day.

  2. The tired maids, laughing gleefully over the predicament, contributed their own mattresses and pillows, and made up beds on the study floor, where Don Pepe camped out with his comrades, to rise with a headache that lasted for days after.

  3. Grandmamma has a headache this evening, and will not be down," she said apologetically.

  4. Her director gave her permission to act upon this; whereupon she wrote to me, begging me when my headache came on to apply a relic of the saint to my forehead.

  5. Dawn was breaking when I found myself lying on the toll-road, racked by a headache and suffering from extreme thirst.

  6. My headache cleared away and I had threepence left and felt happy.

  7. In the morning Jason awoke with a bad headache and the feeling he had never been to sleep.

  8. Jason, back in the ship, had a headache that slowly grew worse instead of better.

  9. A violent headache had come on, and he was vowing vengeance against the Dragon, declaring she had imagined the whole thing.

  10. Black coffee and headache were of the past.

  11. The only remedy is to take laudanum, and this gives me headache and stomach-ache, which are as distressing as the cough and the choking.

  12. I have such a headache that I can not see a thing.

  13. I am suffering severely from headache and dizziness, but I hope you will cure me.

  14. Headache or none, Colonel De Craye must be thinking strangely of her; she had not shown him any sign of illness.

  15. Near the dinner-hour the ladies were informed by Miss Middleton's maid that her mistress was lying down on her bed, too unwell with headache to be present.

  16. Her fiction of the headache pained her no longer.

  17. After a charming colloquy, the sweetest give and take rattle he had ever enjoyed with a girl, she developed headache to avoid him; and next she developed blindness, for the same purpose.

  18. I have a headache remedy I use on such occasions, but I must have taken a little too much this time, for when I reached here I felt so weak and faint that I was not able to go into your house.

  19. Then he went on to Ned’s home in the morning, unconventionally getting into one of the automobile bunks where he fell asleep from the effects of the headache remedy, as described.

  20. I'm going to plead headache or something, and have my dinner sent up here.

  21. But Kate Perry disfigured, cramped into a ridiculous hiding place, and suffering untold miseries of headache and throbbing eyes, was a very different creature.

  22. That which will produce but a headache in an adult will often produce a convulsion in the child.

  23. In headache or in affections of the brain they sometimes pluck at the hair or the ears, although they may often do this when there is no such trouble.

  24. Headache as an indicator of toxemia is of special significance when coupled with the other two cardinal symptoms of eclampsia--urinary casts and increasing high blood-pressure.

  25. Headache is an early symptom of retained poisons and if early reported to the physician quick relief can be given the patient and often severe kidney complications be avoided by the proper administration of early sweating procedures.

  26. Babies frequently place the hands near the seat of pain; thus in slight inflammation of the mouth they tend to put the hand in the mouth; in earache to move it to the ear; and in headache to raise it to the head.

  27. Children old enough to complain of symptoms usually first complain of an intense headache with frequent vomiting and very high fever.

  28. One of her women looked out of a window, and then told her it was a great crowd of people collected about the holy woman to be cured of the headache by the imposition of her hands.

  29. But the Tree had a backache from mere longing, and the backache is just as bad for a tree as the headache for a person.

  30. And why had Hermine's headache grown so intolerable all at once?

  31. To my room,' said the gnaedige Fraeulein; 'I have been suffering with headache all day.

  32. Gradually he lost his sense of humor, however, for after-intoxication is a series of reactions, and a headache reminded him that alcohol was said to be hard on the nerves.

  33. His headache will be gone in the morning.

  34. You can steer clear of a young lady on the street in case you might have to buy her an ice-cream, and you can always raise a headache on garden-party or picnic nights.

  35. As if just running the Chang wasn't enough of a headache for him!

  36. I am unharmed, though I will have a headache for some time.

  37. That is true, and it is more than the sneezing; I woke with a slight headache this morning, and I feel as if I have been exercising harder than I should.

  38. He was fearing someone else might bring the little woman another remedy; even that her headache might go before he returned with his.

  39. Yes, the headache was gone, vanquished by his remedies.

  40. He hoped the headache had not driven her home.

  41. M166) The Huzuls of the Carpathians imagine that if mice get a person's shorn hair and make a nest of it, the person will suffer from headache or even become idiotic.

  42. In Morocco women often hang their cut hair on a tree that grows on or near the grave of a wonder-working saint; for they think thus to rid themselves of headache or to guard against it.

  43. When Australian blacks bleed each other as a cure for headache and other ailments, they are very careful not to spill any of the blood on the ground, but sprinkle it on each other.

  44. Some Brazilian Indians explain the headache from which a man sometimes suffers after a broken sleep by saying that his soul is tired with the exertions it made to return quickly to the body.

  45. He told her of his headache and his desire for a solitary walk, and asked her to cut sandwiches for him.

  46. They knew that Ninian's anger had some relation to Mrs. Graham's headache and the letter from Uncle Peter, and they felt that it was not their business to speak, even though Ninian had drawn them into the affair.

  47. Her false eyebrows required time for their removal, and a headache assumed for the occasion suggested the most convenient pretext she could devise for hiding them as they were hidden now.

  48. She sent a message downstairs, after they had assembled at the table, to say that a headache was keeping her in her own room.

  49. Headache is generally complained of; and by some is borne almost daily for months.

  50. At length a most distressing headache came on and remained.

  51. I have headache and giddiness half the time, and must have some blood taken.

  52. The Story of the Dog and the Snake and the cure of Headache CXIV.

  53. Going to the snake, he said, "Now that my headache is gone, I feel much easier; I remember an excellent remedy for the headache of snakes.

  54. I know a remedy," said the snake, "it is excellent for the headache of a dog, but it is of no good to me who am also suffering greatly from a headache.

  55. Once upon a time, I do not know how it came about, the dog had a frightful headache, such a headache as he had never had before.

  56. She stretched herself full length across the high-road and lay still, waiting for the headache to go.

  57. And ever since that time, when a snake has a headache it goes and stretches across the high-road.

  58. Thus, it is immoral to get drunk because the headache comes after the drinking, but if the headache came first, and the drunkenness afterwards, it would be moral to get drunk.

  59. It is true that Queen Maggie's headache was only a fiction, but poor Queen Aneta's was real enough.

  60. Yes, her headache had departed, but there lay by her pillow what is a great treasure to all schoolgirls--an unopened letter.

  61. Maggie had to reflect for a time, she had so absolutely forgotten that she had pretended to have a headache that afternoon!

  62. The knowledge, therefore, that Maggie was not downstairs gave her such a sense of comfort that she dropped into a doze, and when she awoke a short time afterwards her headache was gone.

  63. She made up her mind to feign headache or some slight indisposition, to go downstairs by the back way, and sell her brooch on a certain afternoon during the leisure hours.

  64. If you have such a bad headache you had better take it black," said Judy, who was aware of that young lady's selfish behavior on the trip.

  65. I have never been on one yet that there wasn't some girl along with a headache who took up more than her share of room.


  66. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "headache" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    ache; aching; ado; aggravation; angina; annoyance; anxiety; bore; bother; chorea; colic; devilment; difficulty; disadvantage; dogging; downfall; drag; drip; epilepsy; evil; exasperation; fret; gnawing; gripe; harassment; headache; heartburn; humdrum; inconvenience; lookout; matter; migraine; neuralgia; neuritis; nuisance; pain; palsy; persecution; pest; pill; plague; problem; province; sciatica; shingles; task; toothache; trial; trouble; vexation; worry