How to Use tuberculosis in a Sentence

tuberculosis

noun

• The method is used chiefly for an old tuberculosis test.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 21 Aug. 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Early in the Covid-19 pandemic, new diagnoses of tuberculosis dropped like a stone in the United States.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 23 Mar. 2023
• The United States and Alabama have relatively few cases of tuberculosis compared to the rest of the world.
  — Amy Yurkanin | [e-mail], al, 15 June 2023
• The youngest of six children, George Grant had died in 1928 of tuberculosis in a government hospital in Juneau, where Firestone then removed his brain.
  — Claire Healy, Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2023
• The practice was widespread by 1950 and helped reign in deadly diseases like tuberculosis and typhoid, according to the CDC.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 3 July 2023
• Anya was living and recovering from tuberculosis in a group home on a wooded campus with a red swing set.
  — Emma Bubola, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Oct. 2022
• A‌nya was living and recovering from tuberculosis in a group home on a wooded campus with a red swing set.
  — Emma Bubola, New York Times, 22 Oct. 2022
• The patent on the tuberculosis drug bedaquiline expires today (July 18).
  — Anna Gordon, Time, 18 July 2023
• Black Americans were nearly twice as likely to die of tuberculosis than whites and more than twice as likely to succumb to pneumonia.
  — Andrew Wolfson, The Courier-Journal, 30 June 2023
• Watteau was consulting him for tuberculosis — sadly, to no avail: The artist died, at 36, the following summer.
  — Washington Post, 25 Jan. 2023
• It is commonly used to test for tuberculosis with a small amount of fluid called tuberculin injected just under the skin.
  — Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Aug. 2022
• Symptoms of tuberculosis include chest pain and a persistent cough accompanied by blood or sputum (phlegm from deep inside the lungs), the CDC says.
  — Cara Lynn Shultz, Peoplemag, 14 Nov. 2023
• John Green, a novelist and high-profile YouTuber, is once again leveraging his star power in the global fight to end tuberculosis.
  — Lizzy Lawrence and Ed Silverman, STAT, 14 Sep. 2023
• The remains also showed signs of lesions on the ribs, so JB55 suffered from a chronic lung condition—most likely tuberculosis, known at the time as consumption.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 18 Nov. 2022
• Every patient who walks through the door — a woman in labor, a construction worker with an injury, a child with malaria — is screened for tuberculosis.
  — Stephanie Nolen Natalija Gormalova, New York Times, 6 Nov. 2023
• My mother, Maggie, became pregnant while living in East St. Louis and soon came down with tuberculosis.
  — Marc Myers, WSJ, 13 Sep. 2022
• There’s no glimpse of the ailing Oppenheimer, who was suffering from tuberculosis and joint pain even while running Los Alamos.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 26 July 2023
• Some who become infected with tuberculosis will become ill at some point in the future, sometimes even years later.
  — City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Oct. 2022
• The recent attention to contagious measles, tuberculosis, Ebola, and other illness outbreaks in the news has once more brought to light the threat that pandemics and bioterrorism pose.
  — Chuck Brooks, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 7 May 2024