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
Alpha’s mom, who works in a hospital vainly treating these incurable patients, doesn’t want her only child to come down with the disease.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 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
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
In less than ten days, the Texan drove everybody in the ward back to duty—everybody but the C.I.D. man, who had caught cold from the fighter captain and come down with pneumonia.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
