How to Use backache in a Sentence

backache

noun
  • His illness began with a bad backache, and then fevers that went up and down for a few days.
    Denise Grady, New York Times, 3 June 2021
  • One was a woman with a headache and another, a man with a backache.
    Victoria Forster, Forbes, 28 June 2022
  • The woman suffered cuts and bruises to her knee and a backache.
    David K. Li, NBC News, 24 Sep. 2019
  • Opioids began to be prescribed for long-term pain such as backaches.
    BostonGlobe.com, 11 Oct. 2019
  • By the end of my first month with the bump, my backache was chronic, and the bump felt as familiar to me as my own breasts.
    Morgan Thomas, The Atlantic, 16 May 2021
  • Forty-somethings looking for a stay near nature without the backache of sleeping in a tent?
    Jenny Willden, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Jan. 2026
  • Lower back pain, our most common backache, may not have been as big a deal for our Neanderthal cousins.
    Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 5 Feb. 2016
  • Presendieu Pierre Mervil has a backache and a rash infection.
    Rosa Flores and Holly Yan, CNN, 18 Sep. 2019
  • Just one week after the attacks, he was prescribed a muscle relaxant for a backache.
    Washington Post, 20 Aug. 2021
  • From backaches to headaches, these products target various aches and pains that can disrupt your day.
    Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 15 Aug. 2023
  • This balm works best for people with arthritis, backaches, persistent muscle and nerve pain, as well as strains and sprains brought on by injuries.
    Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 5 July 2023
  • And your lower trapezius muscles weaken and strain against the upward pull, leading to backaches and pain around the scapulae.
    Dana Santas, CNN Money, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Tylenol is used to treat a several conditions, such as mild to moderate pain, fever, headaches, muscle aches, toothaches, backaches and colds.
    Janet Loehrke, USA Today, 28 Sep. 2025
  • As well as being sanitized, Recaro’s seats will give massages and predict backaches.
    Fortune, 9 May 2018
  • That means patients can consult with doctors about everything from flu symptoms or a backache to a psychiatry visit.
    Fortune, 22 Apr. 2020
  • Before getting her period, your daughter may experience mood changes, headaches, cramps, or backache.
    Cordelia Nwankwo, Verywell Health, 31 Mar. 2025
  • There are also rake alternatives, including push-power leaf collectors that help take some of the backache out of raking.
    Colin Payne, Popular Mechanics, 26 June 2017
  • One of our testers, who deals with backaches, says the EcoCloud is pressure-relieving in their lower lumbar area.
    Claudia Fisher, SELF, 27 Sep. 2024
  • An Auburn inventor and a team of entrepreneurs are marketing a product that will be good news to tennis players with backaches the world over.
    William Thornton, AL.com, 31 May 2017
  • Transgender people get colds, backaches, and cancer like everyone else.
    Steve Sanders, Fortune, 18 Jan. 2018
  • Long stretches at a computer or tablet can cause eye strain and backaches, so encourage students to take regular movement breaks to stretch, walk around, or get fresh air.
    Larry Magid, Mercury News, 14 Aug. 2025
  • In the very next chapter, Druckerman develops a chronic backache, which turns out to be the blood cancer non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
    Allison Pearson, New York Times, 29 May 2018
  • Some people report cramping pain and backaches in the weeks and months after IUD insertion.
    Carrie Madormo, Rn, Mph, Verywell Health, 2 Oct. 2024
  • Opioids — previously used mostly for patients with cancer, at the end of their lives or with pain after surgery — began to be prescribed for long-term pain such as backaches.
    Washington Post, 10 Oct. 2019
  • Fluid moves differently in the body while in space, leading many crew members to feel stuffy, for example, or to experience headaches and backaches.
    Claire Cameron, Scientific American, 9 Jan. 2026
  • An adolescent girl who had years of muscle and joint pain, backaches, headaches and lethargy, received a diagnosis of chronic fatigue syndrome.
    Lena H. Sun, chicagotribune.com, 16 June 2017
  • Another boy waves a pot of Vicks VapoRub in the air, in his family a cure for everything from backache to depression.
    Irene Hsiao, Chicago Reader, 16 May 2018
  • Mpox, a viral illness formerly known as monkeypox, generally starts with flu-like symptoms – fever, swollen glands, muscle aches, headaches and backaches.
    Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 3 June 2026
  • Besides the occasional backache, Harold had no history of serious spine problems.
    Tony Dajer, Discover Magazine, 13 June 2024
  • Days after returning home from a Punta Cana vacation, Marie Trainer called out of work with a backache and nausea.
    Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 4 Aug. 2019

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