How to Use tonsil in a Sentence

tonsil

noun

• For bad swollen tonsils, physicians will use an oral steroid to shrink swelling in the throat, says Dr. Soren.
  — Yerin Kim, Seventeen, 29 Nov. 2018
• Cancers of this variety appear at the base of the tongue, back of the throat, or tonsils.
  — Keshia Hannam, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2017
• On the throat exam, Martin explained, the child had some swelling of the tonsil area on the right and tenderness in the neck on the right side.
  — Fox News, 7 Mar. 2023
• The fear clutches at the inside of my throat, pulling down my tonsils into my chest.
  — Ellyn Laub, sun-sentinel.com, 21 Nov. 2019
• Long, long ago---well, in the 1980s---a middle-aged British woman noticed a spot on her tonsil.
  — Sophie Bushwick, Discover Magazine, 24 July 2012
• In 2013, the FDA warned doctors not to give codeine to children after having their tonsils out.
  — Maggie Fox, NBC News, 11 Jan. 2018
• Some of the most common strep throat symptoms include pain, fever, swollen tonsils, and tiny spots at the roof of the mouth called petechiae.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 11 Apr. 2023
• An ear, nose and throat doctor found swollen tonsils and fluid in Riley’s ears.
  — Jocelyn Wiener, sacbee, 15 Jan. 2018
• New research has also shed light on the value of our tonsils and adenoids.
  — Claudia Wallis, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2019
• At the bottom, a slimy, eyeless head resembles a mix of wet lips and diseased tonsils.
  — Joanna Klein, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2017
• Just go for the gusto and portray Saturn in mid-chomp, with a tot’s fingers grazing his tonsils.
  — Randy Dotinga, WIRED, 7 Mar. 2007
• The lymph system is part of the immune system, which is made up of lymph, lymph vessels, lymph nodes, the spleen, thymus, tonsils and bone marrow.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 7 June 2023
• The rapper has been candid in the past few weeks about her tonsil infection, which began the night of the 2022 Billboard Music Awards.
  — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 17 June 2022
• Got my tonsils out and discovered this show while recovering and just fell in love with you and your mum!
  — Zizi Strater, Peoplemag, 4 May 2023
• OK, that may be a bit dramatic, but Five Mile will have your heart pumping hard enough to bump into your tonsils.
  — Roger Phillips, idahostatesman, 25 Apr. 2017
• Yet just 2% of Basque refugee children fleeing the Spanish civil war then raging had their tonsils out, and were no worse off for it.
  — The Economist, 28 June 2018
• Strep, a common infection in the throat and tonsils, can strike at any time of year, but most cases occur in late fall to early spring.
  — Suryatapa Bhattacharya, wsj.com, 27 Apr. 2023
• Tonsillitis is inflammation of the tonsils (glands in the back of your throat).
  — Cristina Mutchler, Verywell Health, 17 Sep. 2024
• Tonsillitis occurs when the tonsils (the two small lymph nodes that hang down at the back of the throat) become inflamed, the Mayo Clinic explains.
  — Claire Gillespie, SELF, 18 Jan. 2018
• Your child can also show signs of severe fatigue, throat pain, pus around their tonsils, sore muscles and a loss of appetite.
  — Lindsay Carlton, Fox News, 7 Sep. 2018
• The researchers also point out that a failure to adhere to guidelines for tonsil surgeries goes both ways.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 5 Nov. 2018
• To make matters worse, Dominic is waiting for surgery to remove his tonsils and adenoids.
  — Cathy Kozlowicz, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 15 Apr. 2020
• He was scheduled for surgery to remove his tonsils in late February to help with his breathing issues.
  — Sophie Carson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 17 Feb. 2020
• The good news is that OSA usually can be treated with a simple, outpatient surgery to remove the tonsils and adenoids.
  — Ramzi Younis, M.d., miamiherald, 24 July 2017
• The cause was tonsil cancer, said his manager, Adam Shipley.
  — Jon Pareles, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2022
• Mehanna attributed the spike to a rise in a type of throat cancer called oropharyngeal cancer, which affects the tonsils and other structures in the back of the throat that make up the oropharynx.
  — Korin Miller, Health, 8 June 2023
• Adenoviruses are named from the tissue from which they were first isolated - the adenoids, which is the tonsil and lymphatic tissue where the nose and throat meet.
  — Matthew Binnicker, Forbes, 19 May 2022
• Some celebrity couples keep their hands to themselves when cameras are near, but Bennifer 2.0 have been caught playing tonsil hockey all over the place.
  — Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 23 June 2022
• Symptoms of mononucleosis include a sore throat, enlarged tonsils, laryngitis, swollen lymph nodes in the neck or armpits, fever, head and body aches.
  — New York Times, 29 June 2018
• Surgery Some cases of IgA nephropathy may benefit from a tonsillectomy, a surgery that removes your tonsils in the throat.
  — Mark Gurarie, Health, 30 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024