How to use "ill" in a sentence

As soon as I put the knife against the skin of my arm, I feel ill

One day, the cook was ill, and somebody said, 'Gump, you're going to be the cook today.'

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

He told me that Miss Niner was very ill and he looked sad while he told me

This time they wanted forty francs because Cosette was very ill and urgently needed medicine

Months of poverty and misery had made her ill, and she soon became so weak that she was unable to leave her bed.

She looked cold and ill, and when she spoke, Marius saw that she had lost several of her teeth

A broken window - in this weather! My wife ill in bed and our younger daughter injured.'

Gillenormand's face, and the servant began to worry that his master was ill

While you've been ill, she's spent her time crying and making bandages for you

It was the happiest night of Cosette's life, spoilt only by one thing: the fact that her guardian - whom she still thought of as her father - went home before the feast had started, saying that he felt ill

'Are you ill? Are you in pain?'

One day her mother made some cakes and said to her, "Go, my dear, and see how your grandmother is doing, because she has been very ill

The good grandmother, who was in bed, because she was ill, cried out, "Pull the bobbin, and the latch will go up

She feels a cold shiver move over her body, and suddenly she thinks that she feels a little ill.

He looks ill, doesn't he? His wife died suddenly last year

Her child's ill

'It was lucky for you that I was ill,' she said

Maxim looked white and ill

I tried to smile, but I felt sick and ill.

She looked ill and strange.

I suddenly felt sick and ill

'The woman who called herself Mrs Danvers was very ill indeed

"If I'm really ill, I want to know." So I told her.'

As the three of them moved to the airtight steel door that led into the room beyond the window, Elliot said, "Why is he in an isolation chamber? Is he ill?"

Tina felt ill

'Perhaps she's ill,' suggested Mrs Price Ridley.

'Is he ill?'

Mrs Lestrange had been asked to give evidence, but a medical certificate, signed by Dr Haydock, said that she was too ill to attend.

'She has been ill,' I said.

I explained that Hawes had been ill with sleeping sickness.

'So sorry, Colonel Melchett, but when I heard that Mr Hawes was ill, I felt I must come and see if I could do something.'

'But how did you know Hawes was ill?'

But then I noticed how ill the people looked and how many of them still wore old and dirty clothes

We were all feeling very ill, and we were unhappy about it

When I left it, I was a very ill man.

Whenever I think I am ill, he examines me and says I am fine

People called me 'a lazy little devil', and said, 'go and do your work.' They did not know I was ill with liver disease

George always thinks he is ill, but there is really nothing wrong with him.

'Water! Water makes people ill!' he said

He got very ill and died ten days later.

Tell Mr Fairlie that your sister's ill, and that you must return to London

I am too ill to argue with Sir Percival

'I just met Anne Catherick by the lake! She looked ill and talked to me strangely

Mr Gilmore is ill and is staying with relatives in Germany

She's not as pretty, and she's very ill, but still she looks very similar.'

But now I am ill! I have a fever! I cannot get ill now, when Laura needs me more than ever!

I am the housekeeper at Blackwater Park, and I took care of Miss Halcombe when she was ill

During that time, Lady Glyde was so worried about her sister that she herself became ill and stayed in her room.

The day she arrived, she became very ill

Mrs Michelson told me that Laura had gone to London, where she'd become ill and died! This terrible news made me ill again, and I was unable to leave that house for another three weeks

He told me that Count Fosco had accompanied the body from London and had gone to the funeral (which my uncle himself had been too ill to go to)

Her anxiety caused her to become very ill indeed, and the next day she died

At the end of the 1920s, Marie became very ill because of her work, and she died in 1934.