How to Use tuberculosis in a Sentence

tuberculosis

noun

• At the time, tuberculosis was the cause of roughly one in seven deaths in the U.S.
  — Elizabeth Lee, The Conversation, 31 July 2020
• In the 1890s, New York City waged a war on tuberculosis.
  — Jennifer Billock, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Sep. 2020
• The method is used chiefly for an old tuberculosis test.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 21 Aug. 2022
• His fight against tuberculosis forms the spine of this book.
  — Adam B. Kushner, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2025
• Texas has long been one of four states that account for half of the tuberculosis cases in the country.
  — Peggy O’Hare, San Antonio Express-News, 23 Mar. 2022
• Soubirous died of tuberculosis at age 35 while praying the rosary and, like many Catholics, was buried with a rosary entwined in her hands.
  — Rafael Alvarez, CNN, 27 Dec. 2020
• At the beginning of the 20th century, tuberculosis posed one of the gravest threats to the nation’s health.
  — David Buice, Dallas News, 2 Oct. 2020
• Most of them are said to have died of consumption, the disease now known as tuberculosis.
  — NBC news, 16 Nov. 2022
• Parents and staff at the 445-student school learned about the tuberculosis case via email Friday, the county said.
  — Fzarkhin, oregonlive, 18 Aug. 2023
• The younger Victoria was on a trip to see the Queen at Osborne when Bonetta died in 1880 of tuberculosis.
  — N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA TODAY, 7 Oct. 2020
• Parts of the plant can be used as an expectorant, and the leaves were once used for treating tuberculosis.
  — Latria Graham, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Dec. 2022
• Two hundred years ago this week, English poet John Keats died of tuberculosis, in Rome, at the age of 25.
  — Washington Post, 25 Feb. 2021
• The movie begins with Emily in the throes of death (from tuberculosis) and leaps backward to trace the secrets and desires that are at risk of dying with her.
  — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 22 Feb. 2023
• Narciso Lopez has spent more than two decades working to control the spread of tuberculosis in South Texas.
  — Colleen Deguzman, San Antonio Express-News, 24 Feb. 2023
• It's been used to track smallpox, tuberculosis, syphilis, measles and HIV.
  — Briana Rice, Cincinnati.com, 3 June 2020
• This makes a perfect breeding ground for the spread of malaria, cholera and tuberculosis.
  — Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 25 Nov. 2024
• My wife died of tuberculosis, did anyone come and see us?
  — New York Times, 10 July 2020
• But in the 20th century the structure and the Black nurses working in it played a key role in the battle against tuberculosis in the 20th century.
  — John Freeman Gill, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2024
• At least 1,200 people with tuberculosis are thought to have fled Ukraine.
  — New York Times, 26 Mar. 2022
• Khan was highly sought after around the state and the country as an expert on tuberculosis.
  — Howard Koplowitz | [e-mail], al, 21 June 2022
• McBride said that while causes of death varied among the students, tuberculosis was the single largest killer.
  — NBC news, 16 Nov. 2022
• In 1896, New York City passed an anti-spitting ordinance that aimed to curb the spread of tuberculosis, with penalties of up to one year in jail.
  — John Last, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 May 2022
• When Daisy was three and a half, her father died of tuberculosis, and her mother took over management of the college.
  — Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2022
• Deaths from malaria, HIV and tuberculosis were cut in half.
  — Mark Suzman For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 20 Sep. 2022
• For a while, a nurse who worked in the tuberculosis program would ride along to give penicillin shots on a volunteer basis.
  — Talia Herman, ProPublica, 1 Nov. 2021
• These health care workers saw the worst of the Spanish Flu, polio and tuberculosis epidemics, two world wars and the Great Depression.
  — Laura Garcia, San Antonio Express-News, 28 June 2021
• Month after month, a few guinea pigs came down with tuberculosis.
  — Megan Molteni, Wired, 13 May 2021
• Christian was 24 and would soon be dead of tuberculosis.
  — Giovanni Russonello, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2025
• For Sarah Fortune, lead scientist on a promising tuberculosis study, even more lives are at stake.
  — Meredith Kile, People.com, 17 Apr. 2025
• Harvard’s School of Public Health, where 46% of the budget comes from federal funding, lost more than $60 million in funding for a tuberculosis research project.
  — Kara Scannell, CNN Money, 18 Apr. 2025