How to Use tetralogy in a Sentence

tetralogy

noun
  • She, like Mac and Billy Kimmel, was born with tetralogy of Fallot.
    Tom Avril, Philly.com, 9 Mar. 2018
  • Billy was born with a rare heart disease called Tetralogy of Fallot.
    Kayleigh Roberts, Marie Claire, 2 May 2017
  • In tetralogy of Fallot with pulmonary atresia, there's also a hole between the right and left pumping chambers of the heart.
    Nara Schoenberg, chicagotribune.com, 2 May 2017
  • Max was born with tetralogy of Fallot, a congenital heart condition that causes oxygen-poor blood to leave the heart and flow through the rest of the body.
    Jason Duaine Hahn, PEOPLE.com, 2 Feb. 2018
  • There’s something about novels in trilogies, tetralogies and beyond that gives them a certain allure.
    Meg Wolitzer, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2018
  • The four-film tetralogy, known as Rebuild of Evangelion, is a retelling of the series, one that delves deeper into the world after the original series’ finale.
    Patrick Lucas Austin, Time, 20 Aug. 2021
  • Max Page, 12, was diagnosed with a rare congenital heart defect called Tetralogy of Fallot at birth and has gone through a dozen heart surgeries.
    Rose Minutaglio, PEOPLE.com, 10 July 2017
  • For almost two decades, over the more than 3,000 pages of a monumental tetralogy, Rick Perlstein has sought to answer exactly those questions.
    Patrick Iber, The New Republic, 11 Aug. 2020
  • The Rolling Stones unleashed rock’s ultimate tetralogy.
    Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 8 May 2020
  • But the Rebuild of Evangelion tetralogy has a new ending entirely.
    Rafael Motamayor, Vulture, 13 Aug. 2021
  • Chase has Tetralogy of Fallot, a rare congenital heart defect caused by a combination of four heart defects present at birth.
    Sarah Schreiber, Good Housekeeping, 23 May 2017
  • Thomas was a pioneering Black surgeon who developed a technique to treat a birth defect affecting the heart called tetralogy of Fallot.
    Usha Lee McFarling, STAT, 24 Feb. 2022
  • Mac was born with a cluster of heart abnormalities called tetralogy of Fallot, the same condition that was diagnosed last year in the infant son of talk show host Jimmy Kimmel.
    Tom Avril, Philly.com, 9 Mar. 2018
  • The Jimmy Kimmel Live host’s son was born with a congenital heart condition called tetralogy of Fallot with pulmonary atresia.
    Jessica Derschowitz, EW.com, 21 Apr. 2018
  • His magnum opus, the Aegypt tetralogy, took more than two decades to complete, and his readers, a patient and faithful bunch, have become grudgingly accustomed to the long intervals between books.
    Bill Sheehan, Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2019
  • There’s something uncanny about a group of bookish women using Ferrante’s tetralogy—which follows the lives of Lila and Lenù, two friends growing up in Naples during the nineteen-fifties—to impel a collective inquiry.
    Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2020
  • Goldring’s condition was pulmonary atresia with tetralogy of Fallot.
    Kerry Klein, Kaiser Health News, 22 June 2017
  • Also in celebration of her perpetually relevant legacy, the fashion house is releasing a tetralogy of four short films, over the course of this year, that document Chanel's life .
    Whitney Robinson, Town & Country, 22 Feb. 2017
  • Look no further than another famous tetralogy of Fallot patient, Olympic snowboarder Shaun White.
    Tom Avril, Philly.com, 9 Mar. 2018

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