How to Use leukemia in a Sentence

leukemia

noun

• The cause was leukemia, said his wife, Cindy Lou Black.
  — New York Times, 24 June 2022
• Turns out the kid with leukemia didn’t cry after the game.
  — oregonlive, 31 Aug. 2019
• Raisa, his wife of forty-six years, had died, of leukemia, in 1999.
  — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2022
• Their son, Cole, died in May of acute myeloid leukemia at age 11.
  — Ed Wittenberg, cleveland, 6 Sep. 2023
• Te’o was then led to believe that Kekua had died of leukemia.
  — Joe Otterson, Variety, 4 Oct. 2022
• His wife, Mary Collier, said the cause was acute myeloid leukemia.
  — Neil Genzlinger, New York Times, 8 Nov. 2019
• Her cause of death, according to The New York Times, was leukemia.
  — Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 28 Mar. 2023
• Among the group, the lawsuit says, was a 12-year-old girl who died of leukemia in Pakistan in March.
  — Dan Lamothe, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Sep. 2022
• When White was 10, her brother's friend, who was 27, died of leukemia.
  — Abe Streep, Scientific American, 10 Nov. 2023
• Emilio, their only child, died of leukemia two years later, in the arms of his mom and dad.
  — Anna Lazarus Caplan, People.com, 15 Oct. 2024
• Joyce was 12 when one of her younger brothers, Lee, who was 8, fell ill with leukemia and died the next year.
  — New York Times, 27 Oct. 2020
• The 3-year-old son of Strauss’ best friend has been diagnosed with leukemia.
  — Erin Jensen, USA TODAY, 11 Feb. 2025
• She was diagnosed with a rare form of acute myeloid leukemia in 2011.
  — Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 9 Feb. 2025
• One Match helps match leukemia patients with stem cell donors.
  — Jon Stojan, USA TODAY, 20 June 2023
• Long-term exposure to high amounts of benzene in the air is known to cause leukemia.
  — Colleen Stinchcombe, SELF, 1 Dec. 2021
• His wife, Margery Quackenbush, said the cause was leukemia.
  — New York Times, 21 June 2021
• He was predeceased by his son David, who died of leukemia in 1982.
  — Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Aug. 2021
• The scenario that haunted them had happened to a 3-year-old Amish boy with leukemia.
  — Mark Johnson, USA Today, 29 Nov. 2019
• The cause of death was leukemia, a family spokesman said Tuesday.
  — David Koenig, Twin Cities, 9 July 2019
• Then that summer, another big blow: the start of a long battle with leukemia that pushed him to the brink.
  — Kyle Newman, The Denver Post, 15 Feb. 2024
• Moore played a teenager with leukemia in the 2002 film, which was adapted from a Nicholas Sparks novel.
  — Zoe Szathmary, Fox News, 25 Sep. 2018
• Acute myeloid leukemia is an aggressive cancer of the bone marrow and the blood.
  — Greg Wehner, Fox News, 9 Dec. 2024
• Her youngest daughter, Kimi Brown, died of leukemia in 1975.
  — Washington Post, 26 Sep. 2020
• The course of treatment for leukemia is never simple or short.
  — Linda Gandee/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland, 25 Nov. 2019
• Benzene has also been linked to leukemia, a cancer of the blood and bone marrow.
  — Korin Miller, Health.com, 3 Dec. 2021
• Cotton with non-Hodgkin lymphoma, and his father with a type of leukemia.
  — Jamie Ducharme, Time, 16 Nov. 2022
• His son Joseph said the death was from complications of leukemia.
  — Clay Risen, New York Times, 28 Nov. 2024
• Ahmed Barham, a 22-year-old university student, has been battling leukemia.
  — Wafaa Shurafa, Los Angeles Times, 31 Jan. 2026
• About two years ago, Duncan was diagnosed with Burkitt leukemia.
  — Ross Guidotti, CBS News, 31 Jan. 2026
• Lung cancer dropped from ranking first to fourth and leukemia dropped from third to fifth, according to the report.
  — Sara Moniuszko, USA Today, 22 Jan. 2026