Sentence examples for a nasty cold from inspiring English sources

The phrase "a nasty cold" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a particularly unpleasant or severe cold illness.
Example: "After spending the weekend in the rain, I caught a nasty cold that left me feeling miserable all week."
Alternatives: "a terrible cold" or "a bad cold".

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A nasty cold drizzle was falling on Siegfeldstrasse.

I'd rather deal with a cold than an upset stomach and a nasty cold sore.

It caught a nasty cold in the Russian meltdown of 1998.

Yet another international flight has left Donald Dell with a nasty cold.

A thousand throats clear their phlegm from a nasty cold that is spreading through the ranks.

I was reminded of this when I was grounded by a nasty cold last week.

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I was trying to avoid the germs of a fellow who clearly had the flu -- or at least a really nasty cold.

It was a rotten, nasty, cold and wet Berlin day, something that Berliners are accustomed to.

An over-identification with one's child's unhappiness can be disabling to both parent and child (it might be a longer-term benefit to your child to bear for a time the nasty cold of the swimming bath or the dentist's chair).

According to one social worker who does field work among the homeless in West Los Angeles, after the announcement people started turning up from as far away as Las Vegas: their cities had bought them one-way bus tickets to L.A. The result is a huge, often acutely vulnerable population in the path of a storm system already proving itself "brash," nasty, cold, and fierce.

Also, A. J. Burnett has a nasty head cold.

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