Sentence examples for ill proved from inspiring English sources

"Unwinding" with his daughter Gina, only 13 when he fell ill, proved difficult.

But Paula, who I suspected was tired or a little ill, proved especially perceptive.

Researchers in this camp do, however, stress that ongoing campaigns to prohibit smoking in public will protect the whole of society against the wide variety of ills proven to be caused by SHS.

But despite La Rochelle dominating both territory and possession in the first half, their ill-discipline proved decisive.

This widening gap between the haves and the have-nots is leading to protests, and the tech industry, though not responsible for all these ills, has proved itself an easy target.

As for the military, they know very well that while dismissing one's attacker as mentally ill can prove popular with public opinion, it has never weakened the enemy.

Nevertheless, early mobility interventions in critically ill patients prove to be feasible and safe in preventing bed-rest-associated morbidity [4 6], while improving patients' physical function [7], psychological condition [8], and quality of life [9].

These experiments proved ill fated.

Some moves have proved ill timed.

In the Soviet era, the stove's immense size proved ill suited to urban life styles and to communal apartments.

But a business vehicle designed to finance caravans traversing the Arabian Peninsula proved ill suited to building long-lasting assets, such as factories and railways.