ail

[ US /ˈeɪɫ/ ]
[ UK /ˈe‍ɪl/ ]
VERB
  1. cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed
  2. be ill or unwell
NOUN
  1. aromatic bulb used as seasoning
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How To Use ail In A Sentence

  • At the iron railings turn left into the war memorial gardens. Times, Sunday Times
  • Not bad for someone who failed to shine at school and feared he would end up in a coalyard. The Sun
  • Their dried dung is found everywhere, and is in many places the only fuel afforded by the plains; their skulls, which last longer than any other part of the animal, are among the most familiar of objects to the plainsman; their bones are in many districts so plentiful that it has become a regular industry, followed by hundreds of men (christened "bone hunters" by the frontiersmen), to go out with wagons and collect them in great numbers for the sake of the phosphates they yield; and Bad Lands, plateaus, and prairies alike, are cut up in all directions by the deep ruts which were formerly buffalo trails. VIII. The Lordly Buffalo
  • Before you know it, all the Sandy Clarks and Billy Starks doing the media rounds are back in business until the next time they are given their jotters for failing to meet fans' expectations.
  • Leaked Reports Detail Iran's Aid for Iraqi Militias," blared the headline on afront page story inThe New York Times, which went on to report on several incidents recounted in WikiLeaks documents that journalist Michael Gordon called "the shadow war between the United States and Iraqi militias backed by Iran's Revolutionary Guards. Ali Gharib: What Did WikiLeaks Really Tell Us About Iran?
  • The defendant was released on bail until his trial next year. Times, Sunday Times
  • One can only guess at the research and detective work that has gone into the bald details recorded for each piece.
  • The baby grows fine hair, fingernails and teeth, and the eyes open and close.
  • 8. The reporters all want Obama to make the sort of inaccurate, snide, snipy comments that the Clintons are now firing off daily. Archive 2008-03-01
  • She distinguished the undrawing of iron bars, and then the countenance of Spalatro at her door, before she had a clear remembrance of her situation — that she was a prisoner in a house on a lonely shore, and that this man was her jailor. The Italian
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