How to Use metastasize in a Sentence

metastasize

verb

• The cause was lung cancer that metastasized to the brain, said his son, Michael Austin.
  — Michael S. Rosenwald, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2023
• But in May 2017, she was told the cancer had metastasized and spread to her bones.
  — Dave Quinn, PEOPLE.com, 23 Aug. 2019
• The hope is that it can be contained and doesn’t metastasize from there.
  — Matt Sullivan, Rolling Stone, 8 Oct. 2021
• The cancer, already at Stage 4, had metastasized to her sacrum, a bone at the base of her spine.
  — Marie Milano, Country Living, 16 Feb. 2019
• Her husband, Jim Freed, told the Post that the cancer metastasized to her brain.
  — Annabel Gutterman, Time, 7 Jan. 2020
• The main clue to what lets melanoma cells metastasize was that those that do chow down on lactate in the bloodstream.
  — Sharon Begley, STAT, 18 Dec. 2019
• The cancer had also metastasized to a lymph node in her armpit and her sternum.
  — Vanessa Etienne, Peoplemag, 31 May 2023
• All the men had cancers that had not metastasized, or spread to other parts of their bodies.
  — Brenda Goodman, CNN, 11 Mar. 2023
• If the sarcoma has already metastasized — spread to other parts of the body — the chance of cure drops to less than 30 percent.
  — Matteo Trucco, M.d., miamiherald, 29 May 2017
• The cancer has since metastasized to her lungs, GMA reports.
  — Joelle Goldstein, PEOPLE.com, 12 Dec. 2019
• Stage 4 means the cancer has metastasized and spread through the body and are often incurable.
  — Michelle Cortez, Bloomberg.com, 17 May 2017
• Since then, the cancer has returned twice and metastasized.
  — New York Times, 9 Mar. 2018
• Further scans showed her cancer had returned and metastasized to the bone.
  — Joelle Goldstein, Peoplemag, 30 Aug. 2023
• The problems metastasized because the staff lacked the foot soldiers in the locker room to keep everyone on board.
  — Albert Breer, SI.com, 29 Mar. 2018
• The back pain that initially caused her to postpone the first half of her concert tour, has turned out to be breast cancer that has metastasized to the sacrum.
  — Katie Atkinson, Billboard, 30 May 2017
• ACC most commonly metastasizes to the lungs, far less often in the liver.
  — Tim Layden, SI.com, 11 July 2017
• The cause was colon cancer that had metastasized to his liver, according to his wife, Pinkey Reid.
  — Tim Page, Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2023
• The earliest is Stage 1A, a small tumor that has not metastasized.
  — Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 7 Sep. 2017
• Peggy had the tumor removed through surgery, but the cancer had metastasized to her lungs and liver.
  — Jenny Vrentas, SI.com, 19 Oct. 2017
• My doctor recently gave me the news that the cancer I was treated for last year has returned and metastasized.
  — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2023
• In the fall of 2020, Robert Sachs was prescribed a medication to treat prostate cancer that had metastasized into some of his bones.
  — Ed Silverman, STAT, 22 Jan. 2024
• In Vermont, though, state officials didn’t wait for the crisis to metastasize.
  — Mike Rogoway | The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 27 May 2020
• The other is that, when faced with the above, a sense of humor thus metastasizes into active rebellion.
  — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 25 May 2018
• Four walnut-sized tumors had metastasized to her brain.
  — Tom Hallman Jr., OregonLive.com, 12 May 2018
• But there's not a reliable way to tell which cancers are aggressive and more likely to metastasize or spread to other parts of the body.
  — Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 8 May 2018
• Since the GwarBar opened, Gwar has continued to metastasize.
  — Jackson Landers, SPIN, 10 Apr. 2023
• In May, doctors diagnosed Newton-John with breast cancer that had metastasized to the sacrum.
  — Nicole Sands, PEOPLE.com, 18 Aug. 2017
• Players were asked constantly about it in the 2016 offseason, and whether the problem might metastasize.
  — Albert Breer, SI.com, 9 Sep. 2017
• The ugly incidents started in the year, then metastasized.
  — Anthony Man, Sun Sentinel, 26 Mar. 2023
• On May 30, Olivia Newton-John announced she had been diagnosed with breast cancer for the second time in her life—and this time the cancer had metastasized to her sacrum.
  — Megan Friedman, Country Living, 7 June 2017

Last Updated: 28 May 2024