How to Use inflammation in a Sentence

inflammation

noun

• The drug is used to reduce inflammation.
• When this happens, the way the hair gets lodged in the skin can lead to inflammation and a red bump in the area where the hair was removed.
  — Alexis Jones, Women's Health, 24 Feb. 2023
• This is an inflammation of the lining of your bronchial tubes.
  — Korin Miller, Health.com, 14 Feb. 2022
• And while the redness and inflammation will fade, the damage has been done.
  — Sarah Scott, Parents, 17 May 2024
• Her patients have blood clots, inflammation of the brain, heart and lungs.
  — Steve Lopez Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2022
• Lachlan was discharged from the E.R. after 10 hours with a course of steroids to fight the inflammation in his lungs.
  — Emily Baumgaertner, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2022
• And if you're stung by a wasp, rubbing a fresh onion slice over the skin may avoid inflammation and itching.
  — Silvia Marchetti, CNN, 8 Oct. 2022
• Sano has not played since April 26 due to right knee inflammation.
  — Kyle Glaser, Orange County Register, 11 May 2024
• This method showed a 50% reduction in tissue inflammation, and shrunk the wound down to a tenth of its size in just two weeks.
  — New Atlas, 27 Mar. 2025
• In some cases, the virus can lead to severe illness, leading to inflammation of the brain and spinal cord.
  — Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 7 Aug. 2025
• Darvish has dealt with elbow inflammation in each of the past few seasons.
  — Dennis Lin, The Athletic, 22 Mar. 2025
• Whitlock has been pitching with what the team says is inflammation in his right hip.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Sep. 2022
• Too much IgE can trigger inflammation of the airways in your lungs.
  — Kimberly Goad, SELF, 21 Jan. 2022
• The Clippers again had to play without Leonard, who missed his fourth game in the series because of inflammation in his right knee.
  — Broderick Turner, Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2024
• This type of inflammation, which is not caused by a gallstone, is much less common.
  — Karen Pallarito, Health.com, 13 Dec. 2021
• The greater the inflammation, the higher the chance of developing lasting scars.
  — Angela Palmer, Verywell Health, 17 Jan. 2024
• The 86-year-old pope had planned to attend the conference but a lung inflammation forced him to remain in the Vatican.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 2 Dec. 2023
• One of those enzymes leads to release of cytokines, which cause the inflammation.
  — Ed Stannard, Hartford Courant, 20 Oct. 2022
• The pesky, painful bumps form when hair gets trapped under the surface of the skin, causing a little bubble of inflammation.
  — Sarah Jacoby, SELF, 19 Aug. 2022
• Certain food and drinks, things that are fried and sodas will cause inflammation in your body and unhealthy weight gain.
  — Blake Newby, Essence, 3 Jan. 2022
• Schlatter disease, an inflammation of the area just below the knee where the tendon from the kneecap attaches to the shinbone.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 28 Nov. 2022
• The main risk the advisors considered was a rare type of heart inflammation that’s mostly been seen in teen boys and young men.
  — Karen Kaplanscience and Medicine Editor, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2022
• That’s a fancy way to say inflammation that occurs outside the colon.
  — Kathryn Watson, SELF, 24 Mar. 2022
• Wade was shelved Friday with left knee issues, including inflammation and a bone bruise, and placed on the 10-day IL.
  — John Shea, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 May 2022
• All the while, guard Gabe Vincent has been playing through what the team has been listing as right ankle inflammation.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 4 Feb. 2023
• For years, many have relied on drugs like ibuprofen to help fight inflammation.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 23 May 2022
• In this condition, the body makes too many mast cells, a type of immune cell that triggers inflammation.
  — Sarah Hudgens, Health, 20 Dec. 2024
• But for the past two years, she has been stuck in a cycle of long Covid in which even painting can trigger a wave of inflammation across her body that puts her down for days.
  — NBC News, 1 Mar. 2022
• This is the inflammation of the entheses, which are the areas where tendons insert into bones, like where your Achilles tendon attaches to the back of the heel.
  — Maggie Ryan, Flow Space, 20 Aug. 2025
• Stephenson has been out since late May because of bicep inflammation.
  — Jeff Fletcher, Oc Register, 20 Aug. 2025