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How to use ailed in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word ailed? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
None of the very skilled physicians in the royal palace had been able to cure him of whatever had ailed him, or even find out what it was.
He was struck all of a heap, and never seemed to know what ailed him.
Whatever has ailed him this season clearly seems to have healed.
They concluded that what they had written, however bad it was, was not as serious as what ailed his neighbor.
Near a black hole, within hours of crossing the event horizon the astronaut would be stretched lengthways, squeezed sideways and torn to shreds in a process ailed spaghettification.
It would be impossible to cure all that ailed the GOP in the course of a single calendar year.
There were no technicians with the latest equipment waiting to help him decipher the coughs, bellyaches, chest pains, dizzy spells and fevers that ailed his patients.
The central issue involved the problem of diagnosis: psychiatrists couldn't seem to agree on who was sick and what ailed them.
If he continues to give the impression that whatever ailed the constitution has now been finally mended, and like Parliament was a bit of a bore anyway, he will get little thanks.
The ministers ailed to stress the need to « ensure that the rights and interests of WEU non-EU nations are safeguarded » once the transfer of WEU activities to the EU were complete, the Assembly said.
Sounds like something your grandmother used to take, or it may remind you of the days when cod liver oil was recommended for anything that ailed you.
Hot, black coffee was good for what ailed her. Good old black java, Texas tea, sighed Elizabeth as she breathed in the coffee's aroma.
Every two weeks the chief constable, his deputy and the assistant chief constables sit down for an hour and answer em ailed questions from all sections of the force.
And you never went near to see was he hurted or what ailed him at all?
Examples from Classical Literature
Well, he met young Mr. anker, as I was saying, and asked him what ailed him.
The locksmith's wife knew better perhaps, than he, what ailed her daughter.
Prithee, young one, who art thou, and what has ailed thy mother to bedizen thee in this strange fashion?
Finally his stirrings roused her and she asked him drowsily what ailed him.
But as I was a fixin' it on, I see there was something more than mortification that ailed him.
This gentleman said he never told a fellow what ailed him until he got his whack.
Until at last, seeing me dead-white, Galeotto checked to inquire what ailed me.
All the knights gathered round him to ask what ailed the Duke.
Neither did he himself know what ailed him, any better than they did.
Soon the shrewd Wolverstone discovered that rum was not what ailed Blood.
He had gone to bed perfectly well, she said, and nothing had ailed him all day.
I forgot to mention that the said Master Pedro had his left eye and nearly half his cheek covered with a patch of green taffety, showing that something ailed all that side.
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