Sentence examples for takes ill from inspiring English sources

Ahmed takes ill the following day, his stomach runny.

In "Pale Horse, Pale Rider," the heroine, Miranda, takes ill during the flu pandemic of 1918.

He takes ill to Plymouth, neglecting his constituency duties and facing deselection threats.

The plot line is thin: John Q.'s little boy suddenly takes ill and needs a heart transplant, but John Q.'s H.M.O.

But once in Washington, D.C., Jessa takes ill, and, through a series of events I couldn't quite keep track of, Elizabeth Keckley ends up saving the child until mother and daughter are reunited.

Donoghue paints a spirited picture of the girls' everyday lives: Mary solicits clients by crying, "Fourteen and clean"; when she takes ill, she enters a hospital, the Magdalen, that specializes in prostitutes willing to repent -- or at least to say they will -- in exchange for medical care.

He still takes ill-advised 3-pointers.

His only experience of theatre was starring in the reviled off-Broadway revival of Wait Until Dark, and while he occasionally takes ill-advised cameos in his films, you can be sure it's Tarantino the director that's always the star.

Miss Treadway took ill and died.

Had the queen been taken ill?

Somebody taken ill, a hurt animal?