make ill

Example Sentences

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Most people were born at home and died at home, and medicine’s principal function was to make ill people as comfortable as possible while nature healed them or killed them.

From Washington Post • Jun. 27, 2017

This is certainly acting the part of an orator, and if in any respect he attacks the profession, it is on account of those who make ill use of eloquence.

From The Training of a Public Speaker by Kleiser, Grenville

“If the amiable devil should be moved to sacrifice now, I would be the nearest to his hand––think you he would make ill use of my youth and tenderness?”

From The Flute of the Gods by Ryan, Marah Ellis

Thou say’st his meat was sauced with thy upbraidings: Unquiet meals make ill digestions; 75 Thereof the raging fire of fever bred; And what’s a fever but a fit of madness?

From The Comedy of Errors The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] by Clark, William George

Then, to make ill matters worse—piling Ossa. upon Pelion—he was asked to speak at a certain club, with others.

From Quit Your Worrying! by James, George Wharton