bout

My brother, who had a bout with pneumonia in the past year, did not leave Boston.

A “simple bout of flu” is incapable of mutating into an Ebola infection.

Regardless of how one wrestles with Noam Chomsky, one does always wrestle, leaving the bout much smarter and stronger.

Omran managed to finish high school despite his bout with cancer and two wars in three years.

Then he pauses and looks up, doing a quick bout of surveying in his head.

A bout with a life-threatening—though not life-ending—illness is always good awards bait.

I don't b'lieve nothin', and try to keep a close mouth 'bout what I do b'lieve.

I 'members goin' to church 'bout last year of de war wid mother.

Don't 'member much 'bout dat sermon, guess I put my mind on de apple too much.

I don't know 'zackly but I wus 'bout five years old when de surrender wus.

I don't 'member much 'bout missus but mother tole me she wus some good woman an' she loved her.