How to Use epileptic in a Sentence

epileptic

adjective

• Marcela didn’t know it at the time, but the boy had a history of epileptic seizures.
  — Stephania Taladrid, The New Yorker, 21 June 2022
• In this case, the injury is surgery to the affected area of the brain that is causing the epileptic seizures.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 24 Aug. 2021
• Locating the source of an epileptic seizure can be tricky.
  — cleveland, 18 Mar. 2021
• Her seizures slowed to 12 a day thanks to seven anti-epileptic meds.
  — Lauren Levy, Good Housekeeping, 2 Mar. 2018
• Officials at the time said the death likely stemmed from an epileptic seizure.
  — Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News, 11 July 2023
• In 1977, Wesley, a teen-ager, drowned in the family hot tub as a result of an epileptic seizure.
  — Richard Brod, The New Yorker, 28 July 2021
• Griffith-Joyner passed away in 1998 of an epileptic seizure.
  — Brooklyn White, Essence, 3 June 2021
• The driver had suffered an epileptic seizure and veered onto the sidewalk.
  — Geir Moulson and Frank Jordans, Anchorage Daily News, 8 June 2022
• His death was caused by an epileptic seizure, his family says.
  — Dewayne Bevil, orlandosentinel.com, 22 July 2019
• Layleen Polanco, a young trans Latina, died from an epileptic seizure at Rikers in June.
  — Melissa Gira Grant, The New Republic, 12 Aug. 2019
• Rogers, who is epileptic, says the stress of the situation resulted in seizures.
  — Sydney Scott, Essence, 3 Jan. 2020
• Eichenwald claims the message sent by Rivello caused him to have an epileptic seizure.
  — Peter Wade, Esquire, 18 Mar. 2017
• Layleen Polanco, 27, died of an epileptic seizure while in solitary confinement on June 7 of last year.
  — Justin Carissimo, CBS News, 27 June 2020
• The list includes suicides, drug overdoses and at least one epileptic seizure.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2023
• DeOrsey died of an epileptic seizure two days before his 31st birthday.
  — Sun-Sentinel.com, 29 May 2017
• Back home, a coworker tended Heil's rescue dog, which is prone to epileptic seizures.
  — Bruce Henderson, charlotteobserver, 3 July 2018
• The parent whose epileptic child needs marijuana to calm her seizures.
  — Steven Senne, The Seattle Times, 20 Nov. 2018
• Wayne, who is epileptic, has been hospitalized several times over the years due to seizures.
  — Char Adams, PEOPLE.com, 4 Sep. 2017
• And not just sadness but irreparable grief over the death of a beloved brother, Wesley, who drowned at age 15 during an epileptic seizure.
  — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 22 July 2021
• Fintepla is meant to treat a rare epileptic disorder called Dravet syndrome.
  — Sy Mukherjee, Fortune, 28 Feb. 2020
• Local reports said he was believed to have suffered an epileptic seizure while trying to cross the Eburinde River.
  — Fox News, 14 Aug. 2019
• The cause was thought to be an epileptic seizure, according to his manager, Jackie Strydom.
  — Alan Cowell, New York Times, 1 June 2023
• The kick was so hard that Rosales was left with a broken nose and later had an epileptic seizure, according to the complaint filed in federal court.
  — Alison Dirr, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 18 June 2019
• Eventually, Leila awakens from an epileptic fit to the sound of him playing back her voice messages, and slowly the events that brought her to his rooms are revealed.
  — Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Sep. 2022
• Even though a few African countries are rising up to the challenge of spending on R&D, their efforts remain largely epileptic.
  — Amindeh Blaise Atabong, Quartz Africa, 13 Dec. 2019
• Kelly Lopez cried while saying she was denied an extra bag of ice for her sister, who is epileptic and bedridden.
  — Ray Sanchez, CNN, 11 Oct. 2017
• When the son was 5, epileptic seizures confined his father to a sanitarium and forced him to give up the family’s feed and grain business.
  — Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2019
• Brody’s five now, slogging through 40 hours of therapy a week, autistic and epileptic and as stubborn as the disease that, at its very worse, was causing him to have one or two seizures an hour.
  — Zak Keefer, Indianapolis Star, 27 June 2018
• If your seizures continue despite those measures, your doctor will want to put you on an anti-epileptic drug, Dr. Segil says.
  — Korin Miller, SELF, 16 Aug. 2018
• The study found that a ketogenic diet fed to the epileptic mice who lacked either of these bacterial species failed to inhibit seizures.
  — Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 25 May 2018

Last Updated: 28 May 2024