ailing
sickly; unwell.
unsound or troubled: a financially ailing corporation.
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This is the story of Annie Wilkins, aging, ailing, and alone, and the audacious cross-country ride she decides to take on a horse she’d just purchased.
When she becomes the companion of an ailing 14-year-old girl, Klara puts her observations of the world to the test.
You see an ailing man on the side of the road who desperately flags you down, waving his arms like Rogelio did to get Lenihan’s attention.
The Border Patrol Agent Who Threw Away His Badge | Gabbriel Schivone | November 29, 2021 | The Daily BeastJust the opportunity to be the flawed adult child of a flawed and ailing father, the person there to hold his hand when he’s scared.
Carolyn Hax: A struggle to find compassion for a dad who brought on health woes | Carolyn Hax | March 12, 2021 | Washington PostStock prices have soared for months in defiance of an ailing, pandemic-wrecked economy.
Stocks drive higher, brushing aside worries about U.S. stability | David J. Lynch | January 14, 2021 | Washington Post
They were presumably brought down and sacrificed in ATM to help garner favor for a possibly ailing community.
The Cave Where Mayans Sacrificed Humans Is Open for Visitors | Nina Strochlic | August 14, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAnd the rising star still standing just might be in the best position to offer some elixir to our deeply ailing political system.
He was, however, also caught up in the tumult of his ailing marriage to Ava Gardner.
The Week in Death: George Jacobs, Sinatra’s Domestic Confidant | The Telegraph | February 23, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHe was wonderful, with Laura Linney, as a burdened brother and sister looking after an ailing parent in The Savages (2007).
Boosting spending and undoing a chunk of the sequester is likely to have a bigger impact on the still-ailing job market.
With the Ryan-Murray Deal, Washington Stops Hurting the Economy | Daniel Gross | December 11, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThere was nothing wonderful about that, for Dick had heard quite recently that he was an ailing man, and not likely to live long.
The Everlasting Arms | Joseph HockingStrange to say it did not take her by surprise; she told me that the girl had been ailing for several years.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume II (of 3) | Charles James WillsHe had been ailing for several weeks; as his son had remarked, his handwriting had been the first symptom of the breakdown.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume II (of 3) | Charles James WillsHe came home to find his father ailing, and on 2nd December 1469, Piero de' Medici died.
Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa | Edward HuttonPhilosophers and men of letters, when they are ailing, meet with no such pleasant attentions nowadays!
Witch, Warlock, and Magician | William Henry Davenport Adams
British Dictionary definitions for ailing
/ (ˈeɪlɪŋ) /
unwell or unsuccessful
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