How to Use incurable in a Sentence

incurable

adjective
  • Yet is what ails this team incurable, even with their aces on the mound?
    Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 21 Oct. 2022
  • For more on grief The first six months of grief:My dad died of an incurable, rare disease.
    David Oliver, USA TODAY, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Snow has continued in his job for the Flames despite the toll of the cruel and incurable disease.
    Chad Finn, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Mar. 2023
  • Essay on loss:My dad died of an incurable, rare disease.
    Amy Haneline, USA TODAY, 22 Nov. 2022
  • Half-a-year later, the disease remains incurable and deadly to some.
    oregonlive, 25 Nov. 2020
  • But now Zeldin sounds like he’s come down with an incurable case of Trump Derangement Syndrome.
    Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 1 Mar. 2024
  • An incurable leg infection hobbled the saint’s step but not his quest.
    James Matthew Wilson, WSJ, 13 May 2021
  • An incurable disease with little to no research behind it wasn’t the sort of thing that was supposed to happen to us.
    Lindzi Scharf, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2020
  • The insects that cause greening, which is incurable, came to Florida in 1998 and threaten more groves each year.
    Shera Avi-Yonah, Washington Post, 17 June 2023
  • Existing treatments have done little to slow the march of the incurable disease.
    Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 10 June 2021
  • This was like trading a first-round pick in the draft for an aging journeyman with an incurable knee injury.
    Hal Singer, Wired, 25 Feb. 2021
  • The incurable chronic disease scars some patients’ lungs and skin.
    NBC News, 20 Jan. 2022
  • His incurable optimism in the face of all logic seems to have infected his staff.
    Dallas News, 14 Sep. 2022
  • Fantine in Les Misérables and Mimi in La bohème were also victims of the incurable cough of death.
    Adam Epstein, Quartz, 14 Mar. 2020
  • The incurable disease was listed as a condition that also led to her death.
    Nardine Saad, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Take Amanda Nerstad, a 44-year-old mother of two living with a rare form of incurable lung cancer.
    Grace Wade, Health.com, 2 Dec. 2021
  • Don’t let your mind linger over incurable problems, but take steps to protect yourself from issues that might pop up in a worst-case scenario.
    Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 25 Mar. 2021
  • The disease, incurable and deadly to pigs, has spread across Asia in recent years and cropped up in the Dominican Republic in July 2021.
    Alicia Wallace, CNN, 29 Sep. 2021
  • The same year, her father, who had been diagnosed with a incurable form of cancer, was found unconscious at work and rushed to the hospital.
    Kenny Jacoby, USA Today, 6 Apr. 2023
  • But Bowser was not sick, or in pain, or suffering from an incurable disease.
    Danielle Campoamor, refinery29.com, 7 May 2021
  • But the 40-year-old's more recent diagnosis of incurable breast cancer came with an acute sense of fragility.
    Kim Hyatt, Star Tribune, 25 Dec. 2020
  • Anti-Semitism and other forms of hatred are diseases that seem incurable.
    Michael Igel, CNN, 9 June 2021
  • My dad was diagnosed with MS, an incurable disease, in 2001.
    oregonlive, 1 Apr. 2021
  • My father was diagnosed with incurable lung cancer the next year.
    Jo Stougaard, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2021
  • But probably to block the spread of an incurable, highly contagious and deadly pathogen.
    Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 14 Apr. 2020
  • Experts lined up to tell the Kaufmans that their son’s condition was incurable and irreversible.
    Joe Didonato, Forbes, 25 Apr. 2022
  • Metastatic breast cancer is an incurable disease, so that kind of statement will just sound hollow.
    Alice Oglethorpe, Woman's Day, 3 Aug. 2020
  • Read: An incurable disease is coming for deer Never miss a story.
    Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Lee has grappled with an incurable kidney disease since she was diagnosed in early 2023, forcing her to cut short her final season of college gymnastics at Auburn and take nearly six months away from training last year.
    Emily Adams, Hartford Courant, 17 May 2024
  • Among the most challenging issues raised by sequencing newborns: whether parents should be informed of mutations linked to incurable diseases that do not begin until adulthood.
    Mark Johnson, Washington Post, 17 June 2024

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