Sentence examples for contracts a case from inspiring English sources

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

Young Toulouse, catching a glimpse of the girl during a visit to a movie set, contracts a case of love at first sight, unaware that his ragged inamorata will lead him to his father.

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

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

Many would no sooner see their names in print than contract a case of hives.

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

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.

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 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.

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.