1.   A sick child was the first step toward utter family ruin.

2.   As a clown he visits local hospitals to cheer up sick children.

3.   Families told researchers that they had found greater solidarity and amity in their family life now that they had a sick child.

4.   His tomb is believed to be a place for healing sick children.

5.   It is a terrible thing to be clung to by a sick child if you are not used to it.

6.   It was criticised as apparently unequal to all the needs of chronically sick children and helpless geriatrics.

7.   She was turned down on the grounds of lack of experience with sick children.

8.   The defendant gave us some sob story about a sick child.