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Example sentences for "unwell"

Lexicographically close words:
unweathered; unwed; unwedded; unweeting; unwelcome; unwept; unwhipped; unwholesome; unwholesomeness; unwholsome
  1. Up came the old lady, the cook came out and said, "Harriet is very unwell Maam, can you give her a little brandy?

  2. Sophia ignored her, but Fossette, being herself unwell and torpid, did not seem to care.

  3. But that day she felt too tired and unwell to quarrel.

  4. I did feel unwell this morning, but am much better now.

  5. Yes," said Miss Nightingale; "she has been very unwell for some time.

  6. Captain Graham being too unwell to venture out of the ship himself, he therefore undertook to nurse the invalid for me.

  7. I have been too unwell to do any thing; and only write to-day to notice the arrival of the Jupiter frigate, with Lord Amherst on his way to India, and the rumour that he has some official character at this court.

  8. Yesterday I was so unwell as to put on a blister for cough and pain in my side, and several of the others have slight degrees of fever.

  9. The following day Sir Moses being still too unwell to leave his bed, numbers of visitors called to enquire after his health, all expressing their regret at his indisposition.

  10. I am not unwell that I know of," said Grace, a little sullenly.

  11. But never mind me; you look unwell yourself.

  12. Gilbert and Frances were to have dined at Admiralty House but he was too unwell to dine out and only came up one afternoon.

  13. Hammond is unwell and Hirst has gone to dine with John Morley, so the latter asked me to see the paper through for this number.

  14. We thought she looked very unwell the last time she came; and she said she was sorry that some weeks would pass before she saw me again; she repeated the same to Mrs. Harris.

  15. Miss Beaumont," said Lady Noble, "take care that Augusta does not eat above one apple; you know that she was unwell yesterday from eating too many.

  16. Poor Major Pendennis was very unwell, too, in the same hotel--too unwell even to see Arthur, who was constant in his calls on his uncle.

  17. Mrs. Pendennis was too unwell to come out but Laura and Pen came, and there was a great party, and Pen only got an opportunity of a hurried word with Miss Amory.

  18. He looked pale, but far from unwell or failing, when last I saw him.

  19. I was unwell and went home for several days, so that I am not aware to whom any were given.

  20. Felt unwell this morning from eating or munching too many dates; better this evening.

  21. Continue unwell and in low spirits, or as the Negroes say, am possessed by the Boree ("blue devils.

  22. I observe, also, they feel the fatigue very much, as much as I myself, though unwell with drinking the water and serving a hard apprenticeship to Desert-travelling.

  23. We then set her upon a donkey, but she was too unwell to ride, and fell off several times, the cruel rogue of a boy beating her every time she fell.

  24. I found him stretched on a pallet upon the ground floor, extremely unwell with fever, and surrounded by his friends.

  25. I greatly perspired with the labour of the ascent, and now caught a cold, and had a bilious attack, the only time I was seriously unwell during my nine months in The Desert, and strange enough that it should be occasioned by cold.

  26. He was so unwell at the time that he could not sit upon his horse.

  27. Ellen was so often unwell that her absence did not occasion so much remark as her brother's or either of her cousins' would.

  28. I am sorry to hear that you are both unwell with influenza.

  29. Pray forgive my dreadful writing; I have been very unwell all day, and have no strength to re-write this scrawl.

  30. The countess was still unwell and unable to travel but it was impossible to wait for her recovery.

  31. Little Nicholas had been unwell for four days.

  32. Marya Dmitrievna met him and told him that Natasha had been very unwell the day before and that they had sent for the doctor, but that she was better now.

  33. He has been very unwell since the evening and this is the third night he has not slept," said the orderly pleadingly in a whisper.

  34. Still, as the prince is unwell my advice is that they should go to Moscow.

  35. Very unwell all night, but up with dawn, as the shoeing of our horses by a country farrier is an operation long and perilous.

  36. So unwell this morning as to fear durance vile at the Cheval Blanc, but, being determined to go if possible, set off at three.

  37. On Friday night I was unwell and restless, and uneasy in limbs and stomach, though I had been extremely regular.

  38. That morning, however, I walked home, and before I reached Keswick my eye was quite well, but I felt unwell all over.

  39. I was not at all unwell when I arrived there, though wet of course to the skin.

  40. Since I received your former letter, I have spent a few days at Upcott;[209] but was too unwell to be comfortable, so I returned yesterday.

  41. Yesterday I continued unusually unwell all over me till eight o'clock in the evening.

  42. Luckily for us Cicero was in Rome at the time, and in a letter to a friend in the country he congratulates him on being too unwell to come to Rome and see the spoiling of old tragedies by over-display.

  43. Poor Mary is very unwell with a sore throat and a slight species of scarlet fever.

  44. Louisa sends her love; she has been very unwell lately.

  45. Dear Manning,--I have been very unwell since I saw you.

  46. I have been dreadfully unwell since I last heard from you--a regular nervous attack; at present I have a bad cough, caught by getting up at night in pursuit of poachers and thieves.

  47. I know an author who was always unwell about eleven o'clock in the morning--so unwell that he could do nothing but lament his miserable fate.

  48. Jeffrey unwell from pleading so long and late for the poisoning woman.

  49. In the evening we expected Terry and his wife, but they did not come, which makes me fear she may be unwell again.

  50. Watt replied, saying he was too unwell to be able to ride so far, and that his health was such that the journey would disable him from doing anything for three or four days after.

  51. I am too unwell to leave home, so shall not see you.

  52. Farewell, I am feeling very unwell to-day, so no more.

  53. I will write again in a few days, for I am at present unwell and much pressed with business: to-day's note is merely personal.


  54. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unwell" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.