sickly
Example Sentences
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Smog compromised the health of kids and the sickly and the elderly.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026
Modi, as the Italian was affectionately called, was urbane, well-groomed and handsome, while Soutine was destitute, sickly and notoriously unwashed.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025
Smith was a sickly child, contracting bronchial pneumonia, tuberculosis, German measles, mumps and chicken pox which kept her in "periods of lengthy bed rest".
From BBC • Nov. 4, 2025
Even before ICE got him, he had been sickly.
From Slate • Oct. 27, 2025
He didn’t tell other kids, because they wouldn’t get it; he was too small, too sickly to climb mountains.
From "The Honest Truth" by Dan Gemeinhart
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