toggle menu
menu
vocabulary
1000+ books

malaria
in a sentence

show 189 more with this conextual meaning
  • Homework or malaria or having a boyfriend who lives far away when there's a good-looking boy lying next to you.†   (source)
  • Malaria came from bad air.†   (source)
  • When he needed to buy eyeglasses, he let researchers infect him with malaria to study a new drug.†   (source)
  • Then about Negroes, mulattoes, mestizos, whites, the illiteracy rate — over 50 percent — and malaria.†   (source)
  • He had ridden a camel; he had eaten witchetty grubs, played cricket, caught malaria, lived on the street in Ukraine ("but for two weeks only"), set off a stick of dynamite by himself, swum in Australian rivers infested with crocodiles.†   (source)
  • Far to the southeast, along the India-Nepal frontier, colossal thunderheads drifted over the malarial swamps of the Terai, illuminating the heavens with surreal bursts of orange and blue lightning.†   (source)
  • Two of the little girls at the school had had malaria and died.†   (source)
  • My mother, who was having a minor breakdown over the lack of citronella candles at Home Depot-she was convinced someone would get malaria-let her in.†   (source)
  • After numerous misadventures, Daisy dies, ostensibly by contracting malaria on her midnight jaunt.†   (source)
  • Her brother came back from Indonesia with malaria and she's been nursing him.†   (source)
  • They carried diseases, among them malaria and dysentery.†   (source)
  • Or the malaria.†   (source)
  • He trembled his own body like a man with malaria.†   (source)
  • Dad had gotten malaria, too.†   (source)
  • Two of his brothers became mercenary soldiers, one died of malaria on the Panama Canal, one became a surveyor in Burma and India, and the last made tracks for the eastern seaboard at seventeen, never to be heard from again.†   (source)
  • That's what it must feel like to have malaria, she thought.†   (source)
  • Malaria!†   (source)
  • Later on that night, a young woman arrived at the hospital, pregnant and in the throes of malaria.†   (source)
  • They had a guy with some kind of oxygen-tent thing nearby that looked like a malaria net.†   (source)
  • Moody explained that during World War II, while my dad was serving with the American forces in Abadan in the southern part of Iran, his father, working as a wartime physician, had treated numerous G.I."s for malaria, ultimately contracting the disease that killed him.†   (source)
  • Red eyes—he began to wonder if he had malaria.†   (source)
  • Gideon Himes was not actively a bad man; he was as without personal malice as malaria.†   (source)
  • When news of fresh liberal victories was received it was celebrated with jubilant proclamations, but he would measure the real extent of them on the map and could see that his forces were penetrating into the jungle, defending themselves against malaria and mosquitoes, advancing in the opposite direction from reality.†   (source)
  • Augustus was inspecting the feet of his main horse, a large buckskin he called old Malaria, not a graceful mount but a reliable one.†   (source)
  • Women aged fifteen through forty-four are more likely to be maimed or die from male violence than from cancer, malaria, traffic accidents, and war combined.†   (source)
  • But the malarial mosquitoes never found his flesh.†   (source)
  • My sister was married in my absence, for example, while I had a 'malarial chill,' and something similar overcame me the morning of my mother's funeral.†   (source)
  • He wondered if he were suffering from malaria, or, worse, from an overdose of Atabrine tablets.†   (source)
  • These were the traditional symbols used to counteract the evils brought on by summer—cholera, plague, typhoid, malaria, and typhus.†   (source)
  • "Like the chills of malaria," she said.†   (source)
  • The clinician asks: Is this malaria?†   (source)
  • I have been unconscious for some of this time and delirious for the rest, stricken with what our recently departed fellow travelers believed was malaria.†   (source)
  • Quite possibly Adams had fallen victim to malaria, which in the heat of summer could be rampant in European seaports.†   (source)
  • She signed up with an organization called Voluntary Service Overseas and was given a two-week crash course on how to teach English, avoid malaria and repel the advances of amorous locals (say no, loudly, and mean it).†   (source)
  • Malaria feeds the hungry clocks, the feverish hands spin and stop.†   (source)
  • There was something tropical and malarial in the corrupt fragrance in the room.†   (source)
  • One would assume he'd have suffered terribly from malaria, as a large number of the men did, but he seemed perfectly fit right up to the day we received news of the Emperor's surrender, when he committed ritual suicide.†   (source)
  • "All I need is two," the doctor said, and off they went, not knowing where, as the other soldiers, who had had more time to project, made mosquito sounds to suggest that the two would be the subjects of a malaria experiment.†   (source)
  • "No human being inhabits this malarious extent" is how one journalist describes this region.†   (source)
  • The Anopheles spreads malaria.†   (source)
  • They called it battle fatigue, and they said hallucinations were common with malarial fever.†   (source)
  • His target had been the teeming continents and the great plagues—malaria, typhus, cholera, typhoid, dysentery—and he was angling for a World Health Organization or Point Four appointment.†   (source)
  • The air was sweltering, close, but I felt myself in the clutch of malarial trembling and chills.†   (source)
  • TYRONE Doctor Hardy thinks it might be a bit of malarial fever he caught when he was in the tropics.†   (source)
  • His wife would not be at her most charitable if he came bringing malaria home to the family.†   (source)
  • For one thing, Dick had never been ill before, although this was a malaria district and he had lived in it so long.†   (source)
  • It turned out Gertie had a bad case of malaria, a disease that came from mosquitoes.†   (source)
  • I saw him last in 1997 and he had malaria and then it says, 'Come back Thursday for a follow-up.'†   (source)
  • "Her malaria pills," Mother said, and she was right.†   (source)
  • Malaria works great, metaphorically: it translates as "bad air."†   (source)
  • Jamal, the medic, came by with malaria pills.†   (source)
  • If it's malaria or sleeping sickness, I'm afraid they won't.†   (source)
  • He left some malaria pills on Peewee's bunk and split.†   (source)
  • They wouldn't be returning to Kenya; Mom and Dad wouldn't risk Gertie getting malaria again.†   (source)
  • Once a week for malaria, twice a week if you're too stupid to remember the day you last took them.†   (source)
  • Anatole says recurring dreams are common to those who've suffered seriously from malaria.†   (source)
  • "If you give them malaria pills, make sure they take it on the spot," he said.†   (source)
  • Quinine just barely keeps my malaria in check, and there are resistant strains here now.†   (source)
  • There were aspirins, a few malaria pills, and some Band-Aids.†   (source)
  • Potato Head spoke up for the first time since they'd drifted from the subject of malaria pills.†   (source)
  • They'd figure our God gave us scissors and malaria pills so He's the way to go.†   (source)
  • No one mentioned I was dizzy with malaria fever, nor did it occur to me to raise this as an excuse.†   (source)
  • Like the malaria I've never shaken off, it's in my blood.†   (source)
  • Those feelings below my waist, it turns out, were a side effect of malaria.†   (source)
  • But when I fell into mine, I was drugged with the exotic delirium of malaria, so mine is omnipotent.†   (source)
  • Anatole banished the honey-colored ache of malaria and guilt from my blood.†   (source)
  • That he didn't die fifteen years ago of typhus or sleeping sickness or malaria or the combination.†   (source)
  • His father knew malaria, its treatment and its cause.†   (source)
  • Malaria and amebae also destroyed red cells, by digesting them as food.†   (source)
  • Fortunately Augustus had seen the commotion and in a minute was in the water, on old Malaria.†   (source)
  • If you want to catch malaria, I guess it's your business, isn't it?'†   (source)
  • When I examined him, I found Kanoro was suffering from a severe bout of malaria.†   (source)
  • When he launched a crusade against an outbreak of malaria, Celia inoculated schoolchildren.†   (source)
  • Her status rose when Bernard caught malaria and needed to be hospitalized.†   (source)
  • The cause was not mysterious; untreated bouts of malaria often lead to splenomegaly.†   (source)
  • She had probably been suffering from malaria.†   (source)
  • What, even plague rats and malarial mosquitoes?†   (source)
  • I'd just as soon goldbrick with malaria as with anything else.†   (source)
  • Once she contracted malaria and ended up in her own hospital.†   (source)
  • Perhaps she had a touch of malaria, she hoped.†   (source)
  • "I intend to ride old Malaria all the way," he said, "or if not I'll ride Greasy.†   (source)
  • 'That's what I mean,' the warrant officer with malaria continued.†   (source)
  • His mother did not believe it was malaria.†   (source)
  • Who can explain malaria as a consequence of fornication?†   (source)
  • 'But I've still got somebody else's malaria.†   (source)
  • Why should I have somebody else's malaria and you have my dose of clap?'†   (source)
  • It's not that I've got anything against malaria.†   (source)
  • 'Now, if we can just find out who my malaria belongs to we'd be all set.†   (source)
  • I heard him pull that touch of malaria stuff.†   (source)
  • His father, when he came home from the office, would say, "Well, if you've got malaria, son …"†   (source)
  • In February, Dick fell ill again with malaria.†   (source)
  • Suffering from malaria.†   (source)
  • The price was low because of the standing water, and Sam and Arabella were right in suspecting that some of their neighbors in Mason City were amused at their expense, imagine having bought a piece of land, sight unseen, a piece of malarial marsh, imagine having been such a latecomer, and so foolish, and so young.†   (source)
  • But Samuel feels we will probably be all right, having had bouts with malaria during the first years we were here.†   (source)
  • Tuberculosis, malaria, dysentery, malnutrition, anemia, eye ailments, and festering wounds were widespread.†   (source)
  • Malaria.†   (source)
  • Malaria.†   (source)
  • You would be sure to die early, if not from the rioting natives as at Cawnpore with horrid outrages committed on the persons of respectable gentlewomen, and a mercy they were all slaughtered and put out of their misery, for only think of the shame; then from the malaria, which turns you entirely yellow, and you expire in raving fits; in any case before you could turn around, there you would be, buried under a palm tree in a foreign clime.†   (source)
  • "This doesn't look like malaria.†   (source)
  • Malaria!†   (source)
  • "Whatever it was," says Jane Bromet, one of the handful of intimates who knew about the ailment, "it produced malaria-like symptoms, even though it wasn't malaria.†   (source)
  • As a medic, Rat Kiley carried a canvas satchel filled with morphine and plasma and malaria tablets and surgical tape and comic books and all the things a medic must carry, including M&M's for especially bad wounds, for a total weight of nearly 20 pounds.†   (source)
  • Simon detaches himself, and tells her that he's ill; it's a recurrent malarial fever, which he contracted in Paris.†   (source)
  • In Cange in early 1984, Farmer had another memorable encounter with malaria, in its way as instructive as the one back in Léogâne.†   (source)
  • In my reading I'd come across a lot of information on malaria and none of it led me to believe the disease was as harmless as Nigel seemed to think It might not kill, but it weakened and it recurred and it could lower one's resistance to other diseases.†   (source)
  • When Henry James has had enough of Daisy Miller and decides to kill her off, he gives her Roman fever or what we would now call malaria.†   (source)
  • In plowing under the Olinka's yam crop and substituting canned and powdered goods, the planters destroyed what makes them resistant to malaria.†   (source)
  • We try to keep them busy around the compound and because there is so much sickness from malaria this season there is plenty for them to do.†   (source)
  • Mom and Dad had told Hugo that the new malaria medicine had worked, that within a month of taking the first dose, there were no traces of the disease in Gertie's blood.†   (source)
  • Discussing malaria with me, he'd explained there were four types, only one of which, falciparum, was often fatal.†   (source)
  • Malaria.†   (source)
  • Virchow found a region impoverished by absentee landlordism, where the people, mainly Polish, lived principally on potatoes and vodka and suffered from endemic malaria and dysentery.†   (source)
  • Of course they did not know this, they only wanted to take the land for rubber, but the Olinka have been eating yams to prevent malaria and to control chronic blood disease for thousands and thousands of years.†   (source)
  • He said that he and his boss, Gustavo Kouri, were giving Fidel Castro a report about malaria in Africa when Castro asked, "What are you going to do to stop AIDS from entering Cuba?"†   (source)
  • Then you'll wake up in the morning with diarrhea and vomiting, and the doctor will say you have typhoid or malaria, but in fact the problem will be more complex.†   (source)
  • Make sure you take your malaria pills.†   (source)
  • Later, accompanying Dr. Pérez on rounds at his hospital, the national infectious disease hospital, we would come to the room of a patient with malaria, and Pérez would announce that his young doctors had missed the initial diagnosis because they'd never seen a case of malaria before.†   (source)
  • And here was Farmer, who had stood, time after time for eighteen years, at the bedsides of Haitian peasants just arrived by donkey in the last throes of cerebral malaria—grandparents, mothers, fathers, children—already in convulsions.†   (source)
  • He remembered many other patients who had died, along with their lab data, and remembered vividly three young Haitians who had worked with him on the first health census of Cange: Acéphie, picked off by malaria, Michelet by typhoid, Ti-tap Joseph by puerperal sepsis.†   (source)
  • Add the malaria pandemic into the projections, and it seemed obvious that the world faced public health catastrophes on a scale not seen for centuries, since the eras of plague in Europe or the near extinctions of indigenous peoples in the Americas.†   (source)
  • "The six months a year that Paul's looking after patients one-on-one in Haiti, if that time were converted to a major program for treating prisoners with tb in Russia and other eastern European countries, or malaria around the world, or AIDS in southern Africa—it doesn't matter where or what because you know he'll do important things.†   (source)
  • I was able to use the example of his work in many key fora around the world in the past few years, with the U.S. Congress, the who Commission on Macroeconomics and Health, the White House, the U.S. Treasury, United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan, etc. When I worked with the Secretary General to help launch the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Paul's work was a key example.†   (source)
  • These would include vaccination programs, protected water supplies and sanitation, and at the heart of the defenses, a cadre of people from the villages trained to administer medicines and give classes on health, to treat minor ailments and recognize the symptoms of grave ones like tb, malaria, typhoid.†   (source)
  • We didn't know whether she wanted us all to get malaria now, for punishment, or if she had simply lost her mind.†   (source)
  • Bad malaria.†   (source)
  • For all these months I'd imagined malaria as a stealthy, secret enemy, but now that it was fully upon me it was as real as anything.†   (source)
  • I worry that I might have been indecent to them, yelling insults as Ruth May sometimes did when she was delirious with malaria fever.†   (source)
  • As far as I am concerned you can chalk that one right up with malaria pills and Bibles for a tedulous topic, but Mother and Father seemed to take it as a shock.†   (source)
  • Sure enough, when they'd finished passing around the newspaper article, they dropped the subject of the Underdowns' criminal-element houseboy and moved onto the subject of everything dull under the blue sky: new sheets, malaria pills, new Bibles for the school.†   (source)
  • Tata Ndu's attention then lapsed for a number of days, during which time we went to church, swallowed our weekly malaria pill, killed another hen from our dwindling flock, and stole turns sneaking into our parents' bedroom to examinine the small carved woman's genitalia.†   (source)
  • We spent nineteen days in the infirmary, swallowing a variety of specialized poisons, since we had intestinal parasites, fungus growing on our feet and forearms, and more than the usual degree of malaria.†   (source)
  • They were trapped on the peninsula, starving and terrified, and finally rounded up at bayonet point to be marched north through tepid rice paddies and blazing heat, marched through exhaustion and sickness and beyond it, marched from their feet to their hands and knees, emaciated, hallucinating from thirst and racked with malaria, toward a prison camp which few of them ever reached, and fewer survived.†   (source)
  • It could be malaria.†   (source)
  • I'd begin, but no, "This morning I pulled back the mosquito netting that's tucked in tight around our beds because mosquitoes here give you malaria, a disease that runs in your blood which nearly everyone has anyway but they don't go to the doctor for it because there are worse things like sleeping sickness or the kakakaka or that someone has put a kibáazu on them, and anyway there's really no doctor nor money to pay one, so people just hope for the good luck of getting old because…†   (source)
  • Leah who, even in her malarial stupor, rushed forward to crouch with the battery in the canoe and counter its odd tilt.†   (source)
  • The company physicians did not examine the sick but had them line up behind one another in the dispensaries and a nurse would put a pill the color of copper sulfate on their tongues, whether they had malaria, gonorrhea, or constipation.†   (source)
  • It passed through my dreams at 11:42 every night and at different times it had passed through malarial jungles, arguments with my mother, the slopes of mountains, the gardens of Annie Kate, the glooms beneath the Atlantic—it rumbled through my dreams each night at the exact same time and I am sure I would have known it if some accident had derailed it somewhere along the desolate tracks that cut through the marshes of the lowcountry and it had failed to come.†   (source)
  • That yellow fever, like malaria, is transmitted by mosquitoes (which also vanish with cold weather) would not be understood for another hundred years.†   (source)
  • Mike Strank returned to Franklin Borough worn out by battle and a case of malaria he had contracted on Bougainville.†   (source)
  • Its quaint, well-tended cemetery was his playground, a place where more than five generations of English men, women, and babies were buried, taken by typhoid, malaria, kala azar, and rarely old age.†   (source)
  • As always, he wondered why America's founders had willingly placed their capital in the middle of a malarial swamp.†   (source)
  • After a while he decided to go to the room of a malaria patient, a young man whose family lived nearby.†   (source)
  • That's nothing compared to some of the other diseases she says she's suffered from—tetanus, malaria, sprue, typhus.†   (source)
  • "Yes," I said, and described for him the terrible fevers and chills of malaria, and the children who suffered from worms, and how thorn wounds could become infected, and all the old people who were blind until their cataracts were removed.†   (source)
  • There is no rash to help sort this out (the "rose spots" of typhoid are invisible in our population), though I will grant you that typhoid causes a bronchitis and a slow pulse, and people with malaria often have giant spleens.†   (source)
  • Mike, tired from malaria, convinced he would never come home again, looked into the eyes of the father he would soon leave for good and said: "Dad, there's a war going on out there.†   (source)
  • More than a month would pass before Adams felt reasonably well again, and some symptoms of the fever would dragon, or recur long afterward, another characteristic of malaria.†   (source)
  • The melancholy that beset her was unrelenting, suggesting the fever she suffered may have been malaria, but she was also distressed over further troubles within the family.†   (source)
  • A campaign against malaria also reduced maternal deaths, since pregnant women are especially vulnerable to that disease.†   (source)
  • Gus and old Malaria stopped on the hill, looking down at the creek and a little pool it formed below the trees.†   (source)
  • He was trying to catch malaria.†   (source)
  • Deo suffered another bout of malaria and put off medical school for almost a year, during which he taught elementary school in a remote village.†   (source)
  • But Deo felt that the author could just as easily have been describing deaths from intestinal parasites and malaria in Butanza or Sangaza or Kayanza or the slums of Bujumbura.†   (source)
  • The immediate cause of death may be eclampsia, hemorrhage, malaria, abortion complications, obstructed labor or sepsis.†   (source)
  • He was still sitting on old Malaria, back on the little hill, watching the sunset and the cattle herd.†   (source)
  • His parents took him to the hospital, where the doctors examined him and concluded that he had come down with malaria.†   (source)
  • He turned and mounted old Malaria.†   (source)
  • A doctor gives her a shot for malaria and tells her that she should be in quarantine for her illness.†   (source)
  • In 2000, a world health conference in Nigeria set a target: By 2005, 60 percent of African children would use bed nets to protect them from malaria.†   (source)
  • The first time Deo came down with malaria -- perhaps the cause of Clovis's death, he'd later learn -- he felt as if a layer of his skin had been stripped off, as if the breeze blowing on him were a thornbush.†   (source)
  • Poor health and unexpected deaths from AIDS, malaria, and childbirth also create loan delinquencies that undermine the model.†   (source)
  • He started taking malaria pills, but they didn't do any good, so he asked one of the nurses to give him an injection of an antimalarial drug.†   (source)
  • He turned old Malaria and they rode on toward Austin, though the memory of Clara was as fresh in his mind as if it were her, not Woodrow Call, who rode beside him.†   (source)
  • But when she arrives at University Hospital, the doctors can't seem to find anything wrong with her, except for possibly some signs of malaria.†   (source)
  • Some girls die or suffer lifelong injuries, but there is no data; a girl who dies after being cut is usually said to have succumbed to malaria.†   (source)
  • They were too poor to afford mosquito nets for all the children, even though malaria kills many people in the area.†   (source)
  • Next door, people stood in line at the clinic and shivered with malaria while they waited for a nun to give them an injection of medicine that might make them feel better.†   (source)
  • The priest in one had just died of malaria, but the other mission was run by an Italian priest who distributed food and clothing and tried to keep a clinic going in the middle of a civil war.†   (source)
  • His system was sturdy enough to survive a case of someone else's malaria or influenza with scarcely any discomfort at all.†   (source)
  • Now she is sitting in the casualty ward at Mama Yemo among the cases of malaria, among the large-bellied children in rags, and no one is paying any attention to her because all she has is a headache and red eyes.†   (source)
  • In the 2008 U.S. presidential election, candidates tried to prove their foreign aid bona fides by calling for increased spending to fight AIDS and malaria.†   (source)
  • But malaria?†   (source)
  • Malaria?†   (source)
  • It is not uncommon to stumble across a mother mourning a child who has just died of malaria for want of a $5 mosquito bed net and then find the child's father at a bar, where he spends $5 each week.†   (source)
  • These days bleeding-heart evangelicals are out in front alongside bleeding-heart liberals in fighting for aid money to tackle these problems, as well as malaria.†   (source)
  • Easterly has unleashed withering sarcasm at the writings of Jeffrey Sachs, the Columbia University economist who has evangelized indefatigably for more aid to fight malaria and AIDS and to help countries fight their way out of poverty.†   (source)
  • For one thing, Dick had never been ill before, although this was a malaria district and he had lived in it so long. Perhaps he had had malaria in his blood for years and never known it?†   (source)
  • His father, when he came home from the office, would say, "Well, if you've got malaria, son ..." (kissing him) "... you've got malaria, that's all there is to it.†   (source)
  • … I had malaria fever all that Spring.†   (source)
  • And I waited almost with the shakes of malaria for Esther to appear in the dining room.†   (source)
  • We are in a swamp now; in a malarial jungle.†   (source)
  • Malaria fever and jonquils and then-thisboy.†   (source)
  • On his return trip he was stricken with malarial fever, resulting from exposure and bad water, and lay seriously ill in a cactus desert in Arizona.†   (source)
  • Then the Boss spied a fellow at the far end of the soda fountain, a tall, gaunt-shanked, malarial, leather-faced side of jerked venison, wearing jean pants and a brace of mustaches hanging off the kind of face you see in photographs of General Forrest's cavalrymen, and the Boss started toward him and put out his hand.†   (source)
  • He swung himself out of the carriage to the ground and she suddenly thought how nice it was to see a man who was whole, who was not minus eyes or limbs, or white with pain or yellow with malaria, and who looked well fed and healthy.†   (source)
  • She had quite a little work with the malaria people, the boy who had unscrewed the nosecap was a friend of ours and never rang at night, unless it was necessary but between the times of working we were together.†   (source)
  • And there was malarial lassitude, tinged faintly with yellow, from Mississippi but with white biting teeth.†   (source)
  • The priest waited: there was nothing else to do; he was at the man's mercy - a silly phrase, for those malarial eyes had never known what mercy was.†   (source)
  • She had seen him before but she did not recognise him—a gaunt gangling man malaria-ridden with pale eyes and a face that might have been any age between twenty-five and sixty, sitting on the saddleless mule in the street before the gate, shouting "Hello.†   (source)
▲ show less (of above)