How to Use tubercular in a Sentence

tubercular

adjective

• In the middle of the night, another woman was brought in who had a hideous, gut-wrenching, tubercular cough.
  — Lorrie Holmgren, Twin Cities, 18 May 2017
• At the Berghof, patients vainly hope that mountainous air and subfreezing balconies will cure tubercular lungs.
  — Edward Rothstein, WSJ, 28 Apr. 2021
• One of its sweetest, simplest moments finds the boys performing a play of their own for their ailing mother and being forced to cut the performance short because of her tubercular cough.
  — John Monaghan, Detroit Free Press, 13 Feb. 2018
• In the 1950s new anti-tubercular drugs put sanatoriums out of business.
  — Bruce Barcott, Discover Magazine, 16 Oct. 2012
• Modigliani died of tubercular meningitis at 35 and a distraught Hébuterne, nine months pregnant with their second child, took her own life the following day.
  — Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 19 Jan. 2018
• The words séquelles pleurales—pleural effusions, or buildups of fluid around the lungs, which are sometimes a marker of tubercular infections—were just visible.
  — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2021
• For example, tubercular Black cooks and washerwomen might contaminate the food and clothing of their employers.
  — Erin Thompson, Harper's BAZAAR, 18 Oct. 2021
• Americans read about children being eaten alive by rats and concluded that the real horror sat inside their own stomachs, poisoning their bodies with tubercular meat and mystery pork innards.
  — Sarah Jones, The New Republic, 26 Apr. 2018
• Lambeth also recruited volunteer doctors, including the surgeons who repaired a girl’s club foot and performed a series of operations to correct a tubercular spine.
  — Paula Allen, San Antonio Express-News, 26 June 2021
• To a considerable extent, the preoccupation with tubercular thinness was bolstered by class anxiety.
  — Rachel Vorona Cote, The New Republic, 7 Mar. 2018
• Long had a medical degree from Johns Hopkins and assisted tubercular patients at her practice in Denver, Colorado.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 4 Jan. 2022
• In 1956, the site became the Oak Forest Hospital and the mission changed to caring for the chronically ill and the tubercular.
  — Donna Vickroy, Daily Southtown, 5 May 2017
• Living in a dirty squat in what seems a particularly tubercular part of town, the principal quartet of teenage London slumdwellers are eager to avoid the workhouse, pay their extortionist landlord her rent, and feed themselves with some regularity.
  — John Anderson, WSJ, 25 Mar. 2021
• Before there were seagulls, sisters, orchards or late-night vodka confessionals, there was Anton Chekhov’s 1887 play about a superfluous man torn between his tubercular wife and his landowner’s daughter.
  — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 7 June 2018
• His disaffection baffles his acquaintances and pains his tubercular wife (a superb Quinn Jackson), whose doctor (Lambert Tamin) has only contempt for her husband’s agonizing.
  — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2026