How to Use syphilis in a Sentence

syphilis

noun

• In the 1490s, French troops storming the city of Naples caught and spread syphilis.
  — Marco Della Cava, USA TODAY, 27 Feb. 2020
• The flu can last a month, but syphilis is like four days.
  — Danielle Turchiano, chicagotribune.com, 13 Oct. 2019
• By then, only 74 of the men with syphilis still survived.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Dec. 2020
• The first magic bullet was fired at syphilis on this day in 1909.
  — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 31 Aug. 2017
• One of the most egregious examples was a 1932 study of syphilis in Black men.
  — NBC News, 3 Dec. 2020
• Early signs of syphilis are sores that can be firm, round and painless.
  — Kristen Rogers, CNN, 29 Nov. 2021
• Even though penicillin had been proven to treat syphilis by 1947, these men were denied the treatment.
  — Jason Ashe, The Conversation, 24 June 2019
• Uniontown isn’t far from Tuskegee, the site of the notorious syphilis study performed on black men in the mid-1900s.
  — Anna Claire Vollers | [e-mail], al, 29 Dec. 2019
• In 1897, French painter Paul Gauguin was swamped with debt, sick with syphilis and stricken with grief over the death of his daughter.
  — Lee Billings, WSJ, 14 Aug. 2020
• And much like syphilis, name-dropping is super-grody and spreads quickly.
  — David Canfield, EW.com, 13 Aug. 2019
• Most famously, the Tuskegee syphilis study began in 1932 with the goal of tracking the damage the disease does to the human body.
  — Michael A. Fletcher, National Geographic, 16 Oct. 2020
• More than 1,300 people were exposed to syphilis and other STDs.
  — Robert Kuznia, CNN, 13 May 2020
• The Charlotte metro area has rates of gonorrhea, syphilis and chlamydia among the highest in the nation.
  — Fred Clasen-Kelly, charlotteobserver, 10 May 2017
• At the time the study commenced there was no cure for syphilis, which was a serious and widespread problem.
  — Bruce Bartlett, The New Republic, 26 Apr. 2021
• Cases of gonorrhea and chlamydia are on the rise, and syphilis has come back from the brink of extinction.
  — Naperville Sun Editorial Board, Naperville Sun, 5 May 2017
• Just six months after van Gogh’s death, Theo followed him to the grave, succumbing to the effects of syphilis at age 33.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian, 20 Sep. 2019
• The lack of treatment for syphilis carried on for years, resulting in hundreds of deaths.
  — Calvin Watkins, Dallas News, 3 Feb. 2021
• There were 22 stillbirths or neonatal deaths because of syphilis last year, the report said.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Oct. 2019
• One of the more disgusting images from the show involved the woman whose nose had been destroyed by syphilis.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 25 Feb. 2021
• Even when penicillin became widely used to treat syphilis in 1947, it was not offered to the test subjects.
  — NBC News, 3 Dec. 2020
• People remember the Tuskegee syphilis study, in which Black men were lied to and went untreated.
  — Star Tribune, 27 Feb. 2021
• Nearly five times as many babies across the country are born with syphilis as with HIV, the Times reported.
  — Mari A. Schaefer, Philly.com, 25 Aug. 2017
• In its latest stages, syphilis can affect the body’s major organs.
  — Santa Cruz Sentinel, The Mercury News, 10 May 2017
• In the 1950′s, researchers at Tuskegee knowingly failed to provide treatment for Black men with syphilis.
  — al, 14 Jan. 2021
• And Long Beach now has the state’s second-highest rate of chlamydia and third-highest rates of gonorrhea and syphilis.
  — Rosanna Xia, latimes.com, 11 Mar. 2018
• Three local babies were also born with syphilis last year.
  — James E. Causey, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 Mar. 2018
• But the syringes were long, left skin pockmarked and could transmit other diseases such as syphilis.
  — Pedro Cantisano, The Conversation, 7 Dec. 2020
• The county had the 14th highest rate of congenital syphilis.
  — Soumya Karlamangla, latimes.com, 15 May 2018
• The increases in syphilis and other STDs may have several causes, experts say.
  — Mike Stobbe, Fortune, 20 Sep. 2022
• People should also be tested for syphilis early in pregnancy.
  — Time, 27 Sep. 2022

Last Updated: 10 Sep 2024