How to Use venereal disease in a Sentence

venereal disease

noun

• The pills were supposed to protect her from venereal disease.
  — Washington Post, 11 Aug. 2021
• Not long after, the major gave him a lecture on venereal disease.
  — Michael M. Phillips, WSJ, 9 Nov. 2018
• Once the great explorer, Columbus was now just an agent of venereal disease.
  — Jeremy Adelman, Foreign Affairs, 1 May 2012
• At the time, the public was anxious about the spread of venereal disease in public facilities.
  — Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 4 June 2022
• The girl contracted a venereal disease from the assault, the documents state.
  — Madeline Mitchell, Cincinnati.com, 26 Feb. 2020
• Anderson then launched into a lecture on the seven danger signs of venereal disease.
  — David Jesse, USA TODAY, 28 Feb. 2020
• And what little medicine was on hand — typically mercury and arsenic — was more apt to kill than cure those afflicted with venereal disease.
  — Mark Eddington, The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 July 2023
• Cut off from their families and the company of women, migrant workers suffer rates of venereal disease far higher than the national norms.
  — Joel Kotkin, National Review, 25 July 2019
• Related Articles The crimes were revealed after a doctor found that the girl had contracted a venereal disease.
  — Gary Klien, Mercury News, 9 Sep. 2025
• So venereal disease became a widespread and debilitating problem for the Army, the Navy and the Air Force.
  — Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2024
• Subjected to dreadful treatment by both owners and customers, most of them contracted venereal diseases and were physically and mentally broken within a few years.
  — Gary Kamiya, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Jan. 2018
• The study recruited hundreds of Black men with syphilis who were told they’d be treated for the venereal disease; instead, researchers gave them placebos and monitored the disease’s deadly progression.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 22 May 2021
• The board’s charge was to evaluate individuals for military service, a process that required testing for venereal diseases and mandatory treatment for those affected.
  — Caitjan Gainty, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Jan. 2024
• But when Uncle Sam realized that fully one-quarter of all troops were unfit for service because of venereal disease, drug addiction or alcoholism, the government cracked down.
  — Gary Kamiya, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Oct. 2022
• There was a large public relations poster effort throughout the country and on Army bases throughout Europe for preventing venereal disease because penicillin should go to wounded soldiers.
  — Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2024
• Here also are the war’s venereal diseases, prostitutes, drug addicts, alcoholics, shirking cowards, incompetent bureaucrats and those seeking only to profit from the conflict.
  — Glenn David Brasher, Smithsonian, 19 Apr. 2017
• In a fashion analogous to that of the original VD, venereal disease, viral deception is contagious and socially transmitted.
  — Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Scientific American, 18 Mar. 2021
• The sharp decline in population wasn't just due to violent deaths, but also diseases brought by the Europeans, including the common cold, flu, measles, venereal diseases, tuberculosis and smallpox.
  — Aaron Smith, CNN, 25 May 2018
• As early 1778, Captain James Cook and his crew landed on the island of Ni‘ihau, spreading an unknown venereal disease across the archipelago.
  — Kathleen M. Wong, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Mar. 2022
• Government documents say the purpose was to keep soldiers from raping women and triggering anti-Japan sentiment, as well as preventing venereal disease and Chinese espionage.
  — Mari Yamaguchi, The Seattle Times, 21 Nov. 2018
• Beyond the bedside, the speculum was an instrument of surveillance, deployed by police to detain prostitutes suspected of carrying venereal disease, according to Moscucci.
  — Daniela Blei, The Atlantic, 8 Mar. 2018
• Long believed to be extinct, a single living specimen was discovered in the 1980s and quickly became a destination for both curious tourists and locals seeking it out as a folk remedy for hangovers and venereal disease.
  — Willy Blackmore, latimes.com, 6 Apr. 2018
• Kelly is charged with violating the statute by transporting a victim interstate and violating New York law by recklessly endangering the victim and exposing her to infectious venereal diseases.
  — Danny Cevallos, NBC News, 14 July 2019
• Jenkins’s degradation by her duplicitous husband, then her impending illness and death by venereal disease, represented a low point in female victimhood, perfectly timed for the burgeoning #MeToo movement.
  — Armond White, National Review, 6 July 2022
• These colorful posters do some very limited Point-A-to-Point-B reasoning in attributing the transmission of venereal disease strictly to women and assuming that soldiers are innocent victims.
  — Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 9 Dec. 2011
• The bulls tested positive for trichomoniasis, or Trich, a venereal disease caused by a protozoa and spread between cattle during breeding, the veterinarian’s office reported Thursday.
  — Sean P. Means, The Salt Lake Tribune, 12 May 2022
• A Little Life has no historical or sociological anchoring, no interest in the structures that perpetuate clerical predation or stigmatize queerness and venereal disease, no heft to it all.
  — Vulture, 21 Oct. 2022
• Ibsen gave us, for instance, the now-classic tale of a 19th-century housewife, suffocating under the alienating control of a domineering husband, and another about a Norwegian household thrown into turmoil by venereal disease.
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 23 Nov. 2022
• Prosecutors in Brooklyn allege that Kelly knowingly infected women with herpes, in violation of public health laws that require people who have an infectious venereal disease to notify their partners about their diagnosis.
  — Sonia Moghe, CNN, 22 Aug. 2021
• In one of her most significant social campaigns, Butler worked to repeal the Contagious Diseases Acts, which allowed law enforcement officials to detain women believed to be prostitutes and forcibly examine them for evidence of venereal disease.
  — Isis Davis-Marks, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Mar. 2021