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
Also, you noise abroad that my lord Arthur is slain, and that is not so, and therefore you will make ill work in the land.'
From The Book of Romance by H. J. (Henry Justice) Ford
I lingered there as long as four days, and was betrothed to them all; for it seemed shame to set one above her sisters, and might make ill blood in the family.
From The White Company by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Nothing tends to make ill feeling more than having to do another's work; and, where there are many in a party, each one is apt to leave something for others to do.
From How to Camp Out by John Mead Gould
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 William George Clark
