How to Use tuberculosis in a Sentence

tuberculosis

noun

• The method is used chiefly for an old tuberculosis test.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 21 Aug. 2022
• Texas has long been one of four states that account for half of the tuberculosis cases in the country.
  — Peggy O’Hare, San Antonio Express-News, 23 Mar. 2022
• Most of them are said to have died of consumption, the disease now known as tuberculosis.
  — NBC news, 16 Nov. 2022
• Parents and staff at the 445-student school learned about the tuberculosis case via email Friday, the county said.
  — Fzarkhin, oregonlive, 18 Aug. 2023
• Parts of the plant can be used as an expectorant, and the leaves were once used for treating tuberculosis.
  — Latria Graham, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Dec. 2022
• Two hundred years ago this week, English poet John Keats died of tuberculosis, in Rome, at the age of 25.
  — Washington Post, 25 Feb. 2021
• The movie begins with Emily in the throes of death (from tuberculosis) and leaps backward to trace the secrets and desires that are at risk of dying with her.
  — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 22 Feb. 2023
• Narciso Lopez has spent more than two decades working to control the spread of tuberculosis in South Texas.
  — Colleen Deguzman, San Antonio Express-News, 24 Feb. 2023
• This makes a perfect breeding ground for the spread of malaria, cholera and tuberculosis.
  — Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 25 Nov. 2024
• At least 1,200 people with tuberculosis are thought to have fled Ukraine.
  — New York Times, 26 Mar. 2022
• Khan was highly sought after around the state and the country as an expert on tuberculosis.
  — Howard Koplowitz | [e-mail], al, 21 June 2022
• McBride said that while causes of death varied among the students, tuberculosis was the single largest killer.
  — NBC news, 16 Nov. 2022
• In 1896, New York City passed an anti-spitting ordinance that aimed to curb the spread of tuberculosis, with penalties of up to one year in jail.
  — John Last, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 May 2022
• When Daisy was three and a half, her father died of tuberculosis, and her mother took over management of the college.
  — Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2022
• Deaths from malaria, HIV and tuberculosis were cut in half.
  — Mark Suzman For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 20 Sep. 2022
• For a while, a nurse who worked in the tuberculosis program would ride along to give penicillin shots on a volunteer basis.
  — Talia Herman, ProPublica, 1 Nov. 2021
• These health care workers saw the worst of the Spanish Flu, polio and tuberculosis epidemics, two world wars and the Great Depression.
  — Laura Garcia, San Antonio Express-News, 28 June 2021
• Month after month, a few guinea pigs came down with tuberculosis.
  — Megan Molteni, Wired, 13 May 2021
• Nearly 25% of African American deaths at the turn of the 20th century in New York were from tuberculosis.
  — Ade D. Adeniji, CBS News, 26 Apr. 2021
• In the sixth grade, he was struck with tuberculosis and, while bedridden, read a book on Buddhism that began his lifelong interest in the faith.
  — Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 3 Sep. 2022
• An anonymous prison source has denied to Russian state media that there is an outbreak of tuberculosis in the camp.
  — Patrick Reevell, ABC News, 7 Apr. 2021
• Alaska has long had one of the highest rates of tuberculosis infection in the country.
  — Annie Berman, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Nov. 2021
• Aged nine, she was sent to a Catholic orphanage following the death of her mother to tuberculosis.
  — Christian House, CNN, 26 Sep. 2024
• In January, Nunavut announced a five-year plan to track tuberculosis in the wastewater.
  — Melody Schreiber, NPR, 2 May 2024
• Spending just a thousandths of the cost of the Paris agreement could save more than a million people from dying of tuberculosis today.
  — Bjorn Lomborg, Forbes, 20 May 2021
• Early in the Covid-19 pandemic, new diagnoses of tuberculosis dropped like a stone in the United States.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 23 Mar. 2023
• Two of the women had tuberculosis, and two others were pregnant.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2022
• Their father was too frail to do farming and their mother suffered from what the doctors said was tuberculosis.
  — Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2021
• The disease is just one among many that people in India worry about, joining tuberculosis, dengue fever and avian flu.
  — Emily Schmall, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2021
• Surveillance to find the next pandemic Most years, the deadliest infectious disease in the world is tuberculosis, a brutal bacterium that’s also frustratingly expensive to eradicate (which is why none of GiveWell’s top charities target it).
  — Dylan Matthews, Vox, 3 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 6 Jan 2025