come down with
Example Sentences
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Her father, for his part, recalled how it felt to come down with hantavirus, causing body aches and a bitter taste that even made sipping water unpleasant.
From Barron's • May 11, 2026
Animals that catch it typically come down with a high temperature before developing blisters, usually around the mouth or feet.
From BBC • Apr. 17, 2025
While adults catch on average between three to four colds a year, kids can come down with four or more every year.
From Salon • Dec. 18, 2024
More than 3 years earlier, in the summer of 2020, Hayden had come down with COVID-19 while visiting family in Colorado.
From Science Magazine • Apr. 11, 2024
So there were only three experienced warriors who could fight a lion, plus the one elder who had come down with me.
From "Facing the Lion" by Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton and Herman Viola
