How to use "illness" in a sentence

I told him about Mrs Van Hopper's illness.

It can sometimes be like a terrible illness.

That was the thought of illness, of dying slowly in her bed.'

But that was nothing to do with her illness.'

'What a dreadful thing illness is,' Colonel Julyan went on

Her inability to clean out his room suddenly frightened her; for the first time it seemed like more than just a weakness of spirit but an indication of serious mental illness

In each subsequent meeting, one or the other would show up to take story notes on their latest draft, while the missing partner would always have been waylaid by an emergency of one kind or another: a broken washing machine and a flooded laundry room, the sudden-onset illness of a cat with symptoms suggesting (to me) demonic possession, the death of a beloved aunt, the death of a beloved uncle, the death of a beloved neighbor (I began to worry that merely by associating with these women, decades would be shorn from my life span), migraine headaches, and an unfortunate encounter with an angry Big Foot in a long line at the DMV

But it's a strange illness - the whole character may change after it.'

I remembered what Dr Haydock had said about his illness and supposed that explained it

Every time I read about an illness, I realise that I have it.

After some time, I began reading about another illness

I knew I had that terrible illness, too.

I have suffered from this illness ever since I was a boy

Doctors did not know that I had liver illness

The illness of the excellent Miss Halcombe has given me the opportunity to read this interesting diary

'When I woke up from my illness,' she said, 'I found myself in a strange room

Throughout her long illness, I had been like a brother to her

My narrative must therefore begin with Marian's terrible illness.