How to Use emphysema in a Sentence

emphysema

noun

• Teal spent the final year of his life sick in bed with emphysema.
  — Gary Schwab, charlotteobserver, 4 July 2017
• The cause was emphysema, said a daughter, Lily Williams.
  — Philly.com, 5 July 2017
• In people with emphysema, the air sacs in the lungs (alveoli) are damaged.
  — Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 18 Nov. 2023
• Left San Francisco, now in the south of France and battling emphysema, not really in the game, and gets drawn back into the game.
  — Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 July 2024
• Joan suffered from emphysema and moved about the house on a motorized scooter, hooked up to a tank of oxygen.
  — Cullen Murphy, Vanities, 9 Aug. 2017
• My mom, who is 79, has emphysema that keeps her on oxygen and bedridden nearly 24 hours a day.
  — Jill Gleeson, Woman's Day, 6 Dec. 2016
• Crawford was employed by Hicks, who had emphysema, as a live-in caretaker at the time.
  — Marilyn Icsman, Cincinnati.com, 14 June 2018
• Susan Winter and Paul Nelson have said the cause of death was likely emphysema.
  — Dave Collins, Fortune, 30 Apr. 2023
• Campbell has a history of emphysema and asthma, putting her at greater risk for exposure to the virus.
  — Cassandra Jaramillo, Dallas News, 21 May 2020
• Cuomo said the victim was an 82-year-old woman with emphysema.
  — Fox News, 15 Mar. 2020
• The messages said smoking was ‘‘the main cause of lung cancer and emphysema and a huge contributor to heart disease,’’ Mr. Geller recalled in a memoir.
  — Bart Barnes, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Apr. 2020
• The two remained wed until her death in January 2007 after a long struggle with emphysema.
  — J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 26 Feb. 2023
• Emanuel said that 86 percent of the costs in the health-care system come from chronic diseases such as heart failure, diabetes, asthma, cancer and emphysema.
  — Bob Fernandez, Philly.com, 12 July 2018
• His publicist, Kirt Webster, said the cause was emphysema.
  — Bill Friskics-Warren, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2017
• By comparison, there are five flu deaths per day during flu season, eight per day from COPD and emphysema, and 31 from coronary heart disease.
  — Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Apr. 2020
• There are no treatments to reverse emphysema, but many can improve symptoms.
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 14 Aug. 2023
• Coughing spells had prevented him from sleeping, and his panoply of emphysema inhalers did little to quell his wheezing.
  — Pauline W. Chen, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2020
• Petty suffered from emphysema, a fractured hip and knee problems that caused him pain, the family said, but he was still committed to touring.
  — Bloomberg.com, 20 Jan. 2018
• My mother died of lung cancer, my father had emphysema and liver cancer.
  — Katrease Stafford, Detroit Free Press, 31 Oct. 2017
• For many years, researchers have tried to find ways to shrink the enlarged, overinflated lungs of advanced emphysema patients without resorting to high-risk surgery.
  — Marie McCullough, Philly.com, 22 May 2018
• Crawford had cared for Hicks, a retired electrician who had emphysema.
  — Sarah Brookbank, Cincinnati.com, 8 Feb. 2018
• John wrote his entire section and did some editing on the early versions before the combination of this season’s nasty flu and his emphysema sadly took him from us.
  — Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 19 Apr. 2018
• Hanni showed great strength, persistence and fortitude in handling the challenges presented by her emphysema over the past 15 years.
  — courant.com, 21 Jan. 2018
• All you people who got emphysema because of the Federal Trade Commission, please step forward.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 2 June 2017
• Ann Schonberg was a Detroit homemaker and a lifelong smoker with mild emphysema.
  — Paula Span, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2020
• At that time doctors diagnosed my father, a heavy smoker, with emphysema.
  — WIRED, 28 Mar. 2023
• Jessie, a lifelong smoker, was diagnosed at the age of forty-five with emphysema, which would eventually be compounded by esophageal cancer.
  — Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 1 July 2024
• These are the particles that easily lodge in the lungs, leading to health concerns for children, the elderly and people with pre-existing asthma, emphysema and heart disease.
  — Star Tribune, 28 Feb. 2021
• Margaret Mroz, 69, had hoped Kantzler could alleviate the symptoms of her emphysema.
  — Stephen Hobbs, Sun-Sentinel.com, 27 Oct. 2017
• Then there’s emphysema, which also happens most often in smokers.
  — Korin Miller, SELF, 7 Apr. 2018

Last Updated: 4 Nov 2024