Sentence examples for to ail from inspiring English sources
verb
To cause to suffer; to trouble, afflict. (Now chiefly in interrogative or indefinite constructions.)
- Have some chicken soup. It's good for what ails you.
Intolerance seems to ail Nigeria rather than misrepresentation.
Then, just as Margaret recovered, he began to ail with the brain tumour that killed him in 1984.
As with so much of what tends to ail us emotionally the root cause can probably be traced close to home.
Esquire, the dominant magazine journalism title of the 1960s, had began to ail in the 1970s, in part because the men's publishing category had become so over-crowded.
Lower attendance at Disney-owned theme parks combined with lackluster performance at the ABC television network continue to ail the Walt Disney Company, although earnings for the last three months of 2001 were better than expected, executives said today.
In September Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general, set up an independent Ebola mission.In this section Too big to ail Blessed peacemakers Rattling the tin ReprintsEbola exposed weaknesses in the WHO's ability to respond to disease outbreaks.
Instead of making house calls to ailing freelancers, Dr. Parkinson was now hobnobbing with their bosses.
The looming threat of big jury awards to ailing smokers may also pose problems for Kraft.
Higher taxes on alcohol can do more than add cash to ailing government budgets.
And then, apparently, they will have liberated more capital to expend on more reckless loans to ailing companies.
Large American aid to ailing carmakers is discomfiting European governments that are under pressure to follow suit.
