Sentence examples for contracting a case from inspiring English sources

For travelers today, contracting a case of bird flu would require a similar bonehead maneuver.

Dorothy Brizill, executive director of the watchdog group DCWatch, called the tangle of politics, money and contracting a "case study" of what was wrong with the district's government.

But Cynthia Bernot, who was walking her dog on 11th Avenue, remembered contracting a case of food poisoning in the diner, forcing her to leave a celebration later in the Hammerstein Ballroom.

Tony would clearly love the whole House to contract a case of terminal SLF.

Just as the picture goes into production, Val contracts a case of neurotic blindness.

"It was difficult for anyone to come into contact with Ptolemaic Egypt and not contract a case of extravagance," Schiff writes, and Antony did.

Stay away from the beer: U.N. sanctions make chlorine scarce, and the water can be unreliable, though only one academic contracted a case of "Baghdad tummy".

Lurie, it appeared, had contracted a case of Sorkin's disease: he had not only written four of the seven episodes that had been shot so far but directed all seven.

But his condition was not diagnosed for another six years, after he contracted a case of shingles so severe that he had to be carried up and down the stairs of his home.

There are also a couple of drive-by take-downs along the way — of Mircea Eliade, a historian of religion at Chicago rumored to have been involved in the fascist Romanian Iron Guard, and of the owner of a restaurant on St . Martin in the Caribbean, where Bellow contracted a case of food poisoning that nearly killed him.

In these tricky times, BHS had apparently contracted a case of budget T-shirt slogan Tourette's, where for the bargain price of £12, I could become a graduate of the "Royal College, Paradise, Original, 68".