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
• 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
• This makes a perfect breeding ground for the spread of malaria, cholera and tuberculosis.
  — Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 25 Nov. 2024
• 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
• Nearly 25% of African American deaths at the turn of the 20th century in New York were from tuberculosis.
  — Ade D. Adeniji, CBS News, 26 Apr. 2021
• In the sixth grade, he was struck with tuberculosis and, while bedridden, read a book on Buddhism that began his lifelong interest in the faith.
  — Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 3 Sep. 2022
• An anonymous prison source has denied to Russian state media that there is an outbreak of tuberculosis in the camp.
  — Patrick Reevell, ABC News, 7 Apr. 2021
• Disease continues to be a threat, as the outbreaks of measles, tuberculosis, influenza and other pathogens remind us.
  — Katherine A. Foss, The Conversation, 11 Mar. 2025
• In Nepal, where many regions are inaccessible by roads, tuberculosis runs rampant.
  — Ryan Lanclos, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025