How to Use typhoid in a Sentence

typhoid

1 of 2 noun

• The city closed the oyster beds in the 1920s due to the danger of typhoid.
  — Liza Featherstone, The New Republic, 13 Oct. 2022
• The college was named after his only son, who died from typhoid on a trip to Europe at the age of 15.
  — New York Times, 26 June 2021
• The method has since been used to learn more about other diseases such as malaria, flu, typhoid and cholera.
  — Siladitya Ray, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2021
• In 1949, the infant Salman fell ill with typhoid in his native Bombay.
  — Boyd Tonkin, WSJ, 11 June 2021
• Abraham Lincoln's third son, Willie, died at the White House, likely of typhoid fever.
  — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 21 Apr. 2017
• Nigerians believe the soup treats things like malaria, typhoid and the measles.
  — CBS News, 7 Jan. 2018
• Musset rushed out to a brothel and there became a victim of typhoid.
  — Benita Eisler, WSJ, 8 June 2018
• Spanish invaders are thought to have unleashed a throng of pathogens and plagues from the Old World, including small pox and typhoid.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 16 Jan. 2018
• Millions of people get sick with typhoid worldwide each year, though the illness is rare in the United States.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 30 Dec. 2019
• Julia Davis worked side by side with her husband until her death in 1907 from typhoid.
  — Dana Oland, idahostatesman, 9 June 2017
• Cholera, typhoid, and dysentery have been vanquished in the richer nations.
  — Time, 3 Aug. 2023
• The boy dies of typhoid, but his spectre and his lust for petty larceny remain with Lurie.
  — Francisco Cantú, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2019
• For as long as there have been armies, they have been menaced by the ready spread of diseases like typhoid, cholera and influenza that could tear through the ranks of troops in close quarters.
  — Dave Philipps, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2020
• For as long as there have been armies, they have been menaced by the ready spread of diseases like typhoid, cholera, and influenza that could tear through the ranks of troops in close quarters.
  — Dave Philipps, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Feb. 2020
• If left unchecked, typhoid can cause internal bleeding, perforation of the gut and, in up to a fifth of cases, death.
  — The Economist, 26 Apr. 2018
• The name brings to mind a sickness that struck down populations long before modern medicine had taken shape—like typhoid, the plague, or the Black Death.
  — Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian, 16 May 2017
• But even with widespread use of the vaccine — and improvements to water systems — typhoid is sneaky.
  — Meredith Cohn, baltimoresun.com, 22 Sep. 2021
• Dangers in the water ranged from typhoid to viruses to pollutants.
  — Hal Boedeker, OrlandoSentinel.com, 21 June 2018
• The story is set in 1862 and starts with President Abraham Lincoln losing his young son to typhoid.
  — Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 19 Sep. 2017
• It had been thought by members of the congregation at Salem that those buried in that part of the graveyard died in some terrible event, like a plague of typhoid or the Spanish flu.
  — Cody Boteler, baltimoresun.com, 19 Aug. 2019
• Cholera and typhoid, which once killed one percent of Americans each year, are now virtually unheard of in the U.S.
  — Derek Angus, STAT, 14 June 2018
• Got typhoid and tetanus boosters in afternoon and have felt rotten ever since.
  — Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press, 28 May 2018
• Drinking water from wells in some neighborhoods was spoiled with typhoid.
  — CBS News, 19 Feb. 2021
• In December, 1891, Balestier died suddenly, of typhoid, at the age of twenty-nine.
  — Charles McGrath, The New Yorker, 1 July 2019
• Stanford and his wife founded the university after their son died of typhoid.
  — Sudiksha Kochi, USA TODAY, 8 Feb. 2022
• Omido brought him to the hospital, where tests for malaria, typhoid, and rotavirus all came back negative.
  — Deborah Bloom, CNN, 20 Apr. 2018
• Risks vary from rising sea levels to more floods and landslides, destruction of crops, and increases in diseases such as dengue fever and typhoid.
  — Lin Taylor, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Dec. 2017
• Two days later, The Times reported on the quake and its aftermath, saying residents faced a water shortage and the threat of typhoid.
  — Los Angeles Times, 18 May 2022
• Nearly everyone in the village is sick with malaria or typhoid, Nadia said.
  — Zia Ur-Rehman Kiana Hayeri, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2022
• 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

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typhoid

2 of 2 adjective

• The results of which didn’t look much different from typhoid fever, cholera and scarlet fever, some of the scourges of the era.
  — Rob Lowman, Orange County Register, 23 May 2017
• The boy had been seriously ill, probably from typhoid fever, for more than two weeks.
  — Thomas Mallon, The New Yorker, 13 Feb. 2017
• The fear of cyclically recurring cholera, typhoid and yellow fever, which killed tens of thousands of city dwellers, was a key factor in baseball’s early growth.
  — Paul Dickson, WSJ, 2 Oct. 2020
• When studying in Paris, Gerhard had examined the bodies of typhoid patients, both before and after death.
  — Timothy Kent Holliday, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Apr. 2020
• At one point during Rachel’s often-rocky teaching career, when she was posted to a small, backwater Bulgarian town in the midst of a typhoid pandemic, her husband was accused of attempting to rape the rabbi’s daughter-in-law.
  — Sara Lipton, The New York Review of Books, 17 Nov. 2020
• In the early 20th century, Mary Mallon (Typhoid Mary), an asymptomatic typhoid carrier who worked as a cook, infected >50 persons.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 15 Sep. 2020
• The mudslide has had a direct effect on Freetown’s water infrastructure, as residents lack access to clean drinking water and proper toilet facilities, which could lead to malaria, cholera, and typhoid outbreaks.
  — Ivie Ani, Teen Vogue, 22 Sep. 2017
• Experts have identified only one remaining oral antibiotic — azithromycin — to combat it; one more genetic mutation could make typhoid untreatable in some areas.
  — Emily Baumgaertner, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2018
• My current yellow card lists rabies boosters, shingles shots, flu vaccine, typhoid vaccine, pneumonia vaccine, diphtheria/tetanus/pertussis vaccine and yellow fever vaccine.
  — Catherine Watson, Star Tribune, 22 Mar. 2021
• Other potentially fatal illnesses were also linked to milk, including diphtheria, typhoid and scarlet fever.
  — New York Times, 27 Apr. 2021
• The results of which didn’t look much different from typhoid fever, cholera and scarlet fever, some of the scourges of the era.
  — Rob Lowman, Orange County Register, 23 May 2017
• The boy had been seriously ill, probably from typhoid fever, for more than two weeks.
  — Thomas Mallon, The New Yorker, 13 Feb. 2017
• The fear of cyclically recurring cholera, typhoid and yellow fever, which killed tens of thousands of city dwellers, was a key factor in baseball’s early growth.
  — Paul Dickson, WSJ, 2 Oct. 2020
• When studying in Paris, Gerhard had examined the bodies of typhoid patients, both before and after death.
  — Timothy Kent Holliday, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Apr. 2020
• At one point during Rachel’s often-rocky teaching career, when she was posted to a small, backwater Bulgarian town in the midst of a typhoid pandemic, her husband was accused of attempting to rape the rabbi’s daughter-in-law.
  — Sara Lipton, The New York Review of Books, 17 Nov. 2020
• In the early 20th century, Mary Mallon (Typhoid Mary), an asymptomatic typhoid carrier who worked as a cook, infected >50 persons.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 15 Sep. 2020
• The mudslide has had a direct effect on Freetown’s water infrastructure, as residents lack access to clean drinking water and proper toilet facilities, which could lead to malaria, cholera, and typhoid outbreaks.
  — Ivie Ani, Teen Vogue, 22 Sep. 2017
• Experts have identified only one remaining oral antibiotic — azithromycin — to combat it; one more genetic mutation could make typhoid untreatable in some areas.
  — Emily Baumgaertner, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2018
• My current yellow card lists rabies boosters, shingles shots, flu vaccine, typhoid vaccine, pneumonia vaccine, diphtheria/tetanus/pertussis vaccine and yellow fever vaccine.
  — Catherine Watson, Star Tribune, 22 Mar. 2021
• Other potentially fatal illnesses were also linked to milk, including diphtheria, typhoid and scarlet fever.
  — New York Times, 27 Apr. 2021

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024