11 sentences with 'sick'
Example sentences and phrases with the word sick and other words derived from it.
• « The only people who want to stay in a hospital are those who are really sick, and I was no longer in that category. »
• « "Children accept being very sick more readily than adults," the neurosurgeon once remarked. "But what they do care about is how they look. The least we can do is cut as little of their hair as possible." »
• « Parents are often told to take their sick child home to die there. And even if the operation is successful, terrible situations can arise. »
• « Unexpected things happen with sick children. Some who seem to be recovering very well suddenly die; others are still alive years after everyone has given them up. »
• « Based on the idea that a sick body can heal itself through its natural resources, the German physician Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843) created homeopathy at the end of the 18th century. »
• « After studying the reactions of the sick, he concluded that cheerful people recovered much more quickly from their illness with this treatment. »
• « Certain letters from early Babylonian times (around 1800 BC) speak of the treatment of a sick person being carried out, in common, by three different persons: the physician (asúm), the conjurer (wásipum) and the seer (barúm). »
• « I once saw him get up at 3 a.m. to treat a child who was sick with pneumonia because his parents didn't take him to the doctor's office on time. I would have reprimanded them for that oversight; my father never. »
• « -Parents want their children to be well so much that they sometimes find it hard to believe that a child is sick," he told me, justifying them. »
• « -Jerry," I'd say. I really don't like to be around sick people. What would you do if you were me? »
• « At the beginning of June, Michael's wish to get sick came true: he was operated on for appendicitis. »