How to Use disease in a Sentence

disease

noun
  • They are working to stop the spread of disease in rural areas.
  • Thousands die of heart disease each year.
  • He sees crime as a disease that too often plagues the poor and disadvantaged.
  • He suffers from a rare genetic disease.
  • The article cites intolerance as one of the most dangerous of society's diseases.
  • Bedbugs can be found in every part of the world and are not known to spread disease.
    Morgan Winsor, ABC News, 3 Oct. 2023
  • Ozzy has since been doing tai chi to help with symptoms of the disease.
    Vanessa Etienne, Peoplemag, 3 Apr. 2024
  • Some died of the disease, others were culled to prevent the virus from spreading.
    Gabrielle Emanuel, NPR, 14 June 2024
  • The most reliable way to prevent the aging and disease the sun’s rays can cause?
    Justin Fenner, Robb Report, 23 July 2024
  • The disease is spread when the midges bite an infected deer and then bite other deer.
    Shelley Jones, Chicago Tribune, 8 Sep. 2024
  • But in fact, the much bigger burden of disease is in older adults.
    Fortune Editors, Fortune, 31 May 2023
  • Both her parents had the disease, and her father had lost his legs, his vision and then his life to it.
    Eileen Finan, Peoplemag, 27 Dec. 2023
  • As of Monday, the disease had been detected in 79 dairy herds across nine states.
    Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2024
  • They were married on the peak three weeks later, and Colleen took on the role of caretaker as the disease progressed.
    Sean P. Means, The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Here's what to know about how this disease is diagnosed.
    Amanda MacMillan, Health, 15 Apr. 2023
  • Both families worry about how fast and when the disease will progress.
    Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post, 19 Mar. 2023
  • The bacterium is often found in the nose and throat of people without causing the disease.
    Monique Calello, USA TODAY, 2 Sep. 2023
  • Those tools are in place and ready for future disease threats, so health department wouldn’t have to start from scratch.
    Youri Benadjaoud, ABC News, 1 Apr. 2023
  • The palace added at the time that Camilla was tripled-vaccinated against the viral disease.
    Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Her hearing is impaired and her voice no longer carries, both effects of the disease.
    Scott MacFarlane, CBS News, 18 Nov. 2023
  • Those fish died of gas bubble disease, which happens when the pressure changes while passing through a tunnel at the base of a dam.
    Kris Millgate, Field & Stream, 5 Apr. 2024
  • The initial mass in her colon was about the size of a large orange and liver masses were already there as a metastatic disease.
    CBS News, 1 Mar. 2023
  • This increased the risk of the spread of disease, especially yellow fever.
    David Goodhue Miami Herald (tns), al, 3 May 2023
  • Those of us who work with genetic diseases see evidence of this kinship all the time.
    Michael Segal, WSJ, 25 Oct. 2023
  • The cause of death was Parkinson’s disease, according to Texas Tribune.
    Jonathan Bernstein, Rolling Stone, 27 June 2024
  • Much of that is to ward off ticks, which are technically arachnids and carry more than a dozen diseases.
    Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 12 June 2023
  • That's a real disease of despair, and that's a real disease of stunted growth.
    Gerrad Hall, EW.com, 20 Sep. 2024
  • In the 1970s, few children with sickle cell disease survived to adulthood.
    Emily Mullin, WIRED, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Early versions of the disease begin as noncancerous forms called polyps.
    Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 3 Nov. 2024
  • Symptoms of the disease vary but often include fever, chills, swollen lymph nodes and respiratory symptoms similar to a cold or the flu.
    Lauren Penington, The Denver Post, 3 Nov. 2024

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