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Example sentences for "catch cold"

  • You mustn't catch cold, mamma dear," I said.

  • I hope aunt won't let Prissy go with them, however; she is sure to catch cold if they stay late.

  • I should think you'd be rather glad for some of them to catch cold sometimes," I said.

  • Footnote 11: Said an observing friend to me: "I am apt to catch cold when I put on my winter flannels; why is that?

  • These and similar experiments I have made repeatedly, and have never been able to catch cold.

  • But remember, my opinion is, that a child is better without caps; they only heat his head, cause undue perspiration, and thus make him more liable to catch cold.

  • A child who is teething dribbles, and thereby wets his chest, which frequently causes him to catch cold; what had better be done?

  • Does not washing the child's head, every morning, make him more liable to catch cold, and does it not tend to weaken his sight?

  • He frequently throws the clothes off him, and has occasion to be taken up in the night, and if he have not a flannel gown on, is likely to catch cold; on which account I recommend it to be worn.

  • We shall, of course, catch cold occasionally, but will throw it off quickly, and probably form anti-bodies enough to last us a year or more.

  • We shut our patients up in stove-heated rooms with windows absolutely closed, for fear that they would "catch cold.

  • They are overdressed and perspire easily and as a result "catch cold.

  • No quantity of cod liver oil, no medicine, no coddling, will remove the tendency to "catch cold.

  • The windows in their bedrooms are always kept closed, because they are "liable to catch cold.

  • That warmed rooms make people tender, and apt to catch cold, is a mistake as great as it is (among the English) general.

  • Thus no one was ever known to catch cold by the use of the cold bath: and are not cold baths allowed to harden the bodies of those that use them?


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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