How to Use dysentery in a Sentence

dysentery

noun

• But all the tweets about dysentery might have been bad luck.
  — Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 24 May 2022
• Or the 10-day spell of dysentery that confined T.E. Lawrence to a tent.
  — Andrew Stark, WSJ, 23 July 2017
• In the episode, a dysentery epidemic has spread across the Ridge.
  — Sharareh Drury, Variety, 7 Apr. 2022
• On his travels across the world he has been struck down with dysentery.
  — Josephine Livingstone, New Republic, 4 Oct. 2017
• Half of the camp has come down with dysentery & food poisoning.
  — Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press, 28 May 2018
• Edward of Woodstock died six years later of dysentery at the age of 45.
  — David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Nov. 2021
• The food – rice, potato stew and boiled roots – gave him diarrhea and dysentery.
  — Adam Goldman, miamiherald, 7 Mar. 2018
• The food — rice, potato stew and boiled roots — gave him diarrhea and dysentery.
  — Adam Goldman, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2018
• Lewis claimed that the odors also caused diseases like plague, smallpox and dysentery.
  — Karina Wilson, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Oct. 2020
• Stark kept traveling despite dysentery, measles, and dengue fever, at home on the back of a donkey or camel.
  — National Geographic, 12 Nov. 2019
• As for emeralds, Van Cleef knows its way around the stone that was once thought to cure everything from dysentery to paranoia.
  — Stellene Volandes, Town & Country, 1 Nov. 2016
• Diseases like smallpox, measles, and dysentery killed two-thirds of the 1 million people who died in the Civil War.
  — Patrick Skerrett, STAT, 28 Apr. 2021
• Young Auguste died of dysentery on the trip, and Schelling, a proponent of Brunonian medicine, was blamed by some for her death.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Feb. 2022
• There were outbreaks of cholera, beriberi, dysentery, malaria.
  — Carl Nolte, SFChronicle.com, 14 Sep. 2019
• Guests hoping to encounter the spirits of former boarders may run into the 8-year-old twin boys who died of dysentery at the inn.
  — Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 18 Oct. 2022
• In the spring of 1857, little Sophie caught dysentery during a trip with her parents to Hungary.
  — National Geographic, 14 May 2019
• As soon as the adoring couple arrived in Venice, Sand was attacked by dysentery.
  — Benita Eisler, WSJ, 8 June 2018
• Cholera, typhoid, and dysentery have been vanquished in the richer nations.
  — Time, 3 Aug. 2023
• Stephen and his fellow laborers flee, but he is slowed down by dysentery and typhoid fever.
  — Terry W. Hartle, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 July 2024
• Some days the ills of the city seem miasmal and mental, a delirium of drugs and dysfunctions, a souring in the gut like dysentery.
  — Andrew Cockburn, Harper’s Magazine , 5 Jan. 2023
• At the least, the air would have been less toxic, and there might have been lower mortality rates from scurvy, dysentery and typhus.
  — A. Roger Ekirch, WSJ, 22 Aug. 2017
• He was held captive for 28 months and suffered from starvation and dysentery.
  — Richard Goldstein, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2022
• In late 2018, dysentery broke out in several public preschools in Moscow.
  — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 19 July 2021
• In the 1970s, children in Bangladesh were dying in high numbers from diseases such as dysentery and cholera after drinking dirty water from rivers, lakes and streams.
  — Laura Paddison, CNN, 22 Mar. 2024
• Before the advent of sanitary sewers, millions died of cholera, dysentery and plagues.
  — Spike Carlsen, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Nov. 2020
• McDonald claims that Seacole even harmed some troops by treating dysentery with lead and mercury.
  — Tina Hillier, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Feb. 2020
• More than 60 percent of the country’s 1.3 billion people still defecate in the open, and dysentery kills hundreds of millions of children every year.
  — Vaishnavee Sharma, The Seattle Times, 23 June 2017
• The bark is still used to treat inflammation, bronchitis, dysentery, leprosy, and piles.
  — Dorothy Wickenden, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2022
• Locals use it to treat malaria, dysentery and diabetes.
  — Julia Daye, Miami Herald, 3 May 2024
• Before he could be sent to combat duty, a bout with amoebic dysentery led to an honorable discharge in 1944.
  — Washington Post, 6 Feb. 2020

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024