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
  • 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
  • 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 | Hkoplowitz@al.com, 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
  • 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
  • Alaska has long had one of the highest rates of tuberculosis infection in the country.
    Annie Berman, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Nov. 2021
  • In January, Nunavut announced a five-year plan to track tuberculosis in the wastewater.
    Melody Schreiber, NPR, 2 May 2024
  • 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
  • The United States and Alabama have relatively few cases of tuberculosis compared to the rest of the world.
    Amy Yurkanin | Ayurkanin@al.com, al, 15 June 2023
  • Amidst the tuberculosis epidemic, young white women began leaving the nursing field in droves in the late 1920’s to escape the disease.
    Melissa Noel, Essence, 7 May 2024
  • Maud died of tuberculosis in February 1911, when Edwina was nine and her sister Mary was five.
    Andrew Lownie, Town & Country, 7 Sep. 2021
  • The living conditions were also poor and kids died from tuberculosis, whooping cough, measles, the flu and smallpox.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 Oct. 2021
  • Zak was right: both mother and daughter may have had tuberculosis.
    Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2021
  • The ancients of Greece and China confirmed tuberculosis by tossing a patient’s sputum onto hot coals and smelling the fumes.
    Scott Sayare Robert Petkoff Anna Diamond Quinton Kamara, New York Times, 14 June 2024
  • Throughout the early 20th century, the city grew as a hub for people looking to heal from tuberculosis.
    Charles Trepany, USA TODAY, 2 Oct. 2024
  • The youngest of six children, George Grant had died in 1928 of tuberculosis in a government hospital in Juneau, where Firestone then removed his brain.
    Claire Healy, Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2023
  • The practice was widespread by 1950 and helped reign in deadly diseases like tuberculosis and typhoid, according to the CDC.
    Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 3 July 2023
  • Anya was living and recovering from tuberculosis in a group home on a wooded campus with a red swing set.
    Emma Bubola, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Oct. 2022
  • Wojnicz is here, as many other gentlemen would have been in September 1913, to pursue a rest cure for tuberculosis.
    Bekah Waalkes, The Atlantic, 3 Oct. 2024

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