How to Use asthma in a Sentence

asthma

noun

• One of the tracts has an asthma rate of 20.6% -- highest in the U.S., and 2½ times the national rate.
  — Mark Nichols, ABC News, 20 Sep. 2023
• One of the members of my party is a 17-year-old who has severe asthma.
  — Christopher Elliott, King Features Syndicate, The Mercury News, 25 Mar. 2024
• In the South Bronx and Harlem, asthma kills and harms residents at some of the country’s highest rates.
  — Yessenia Funes, The New Republic, 8 June 2023
• Like many children in this borough of New York City, her son has asthma.
  — Javacia Harris Bowser, Good Housekeeping, 14 Mar. 2023
• And then, on my 16th birthday, Mom had an asthma attack.
  — Trey Burnette, Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2023
• Carrasco said the chemical in the air burns the eyes of her 2-year-old son and has caused her asthma to return.
  — Tammy Murga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Oct. 2023
• This is called allergic asthma and is the most common type.
  — USA TODAY, 4 Apr. 2024
• Wesley, who has asthma, gets off on the third stop on his route and usually spends no more than 30 minutes on the bus.
  — Colbi Edmonds, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2023
• In 1984, Mitchel’s parents moved to Arizona due to his father’s asthma.
  — Eric J. Greenberg, Rolling Stone, 5 Aug. 2023
• There are high rates of asthma and poor lung function from fugitive dust in this community and across the city.
  — Detroit Free Press, 20 Mar. 2024
• Also, gas leaks can be toxic, and gas stoves in homes have been linked to health problems such as childhood asthma.
  — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 May 2023
• When an asthma attack occurs, the muscles in the airways tighten in an event known as a bronchospasm.
  — Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 12 Jan. 2024
• The family soon moved to Portland, Ore., where a young Dr. Berendzen struggled with rheumatic fever and asthma.
  — Harrison Smith, Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2023
• Edwin Stanton suffered from asthma and would soon die of it.
  — Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
• That means fewer asthma attacks, less heart disease and longer lives.
  — Todd Spangler, Detroit Free Press, 20 Mar. 2024
• During one assault in 1997, Jaya Prakash’s wife had an asthma attack.
  — Sean Williams, Harper's Magazine, 11 Sep. 2023
• Our kids suffer more from asthma than in almost any other part of Michigan.
  — Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 3 Aug. 2023
• Some activists say rerouted truck traffic could worsen asthma rates in the Bronx that are already high.
  — Ana Ley, New York Times, 1 Dec. 2023
• Exposure to high phthalate levels in the womb has been linked to asthma in childhood.
  — Ali Francis, Bon Appétit, 15 Sep. 2023
• This includes people who live with asthma, lung diseases or COPD.
  — Jose R. Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 12 July 2023
• In some cases, struggling to breathe while running can also be a sign of asthma (a common cause of chest pain while running).
  — Erin Bunch, Women's Health, 13 Mar. 2023
• Far fewer studies have examined the risks of gas stoves, but new research links them to childhood asthma.
  — Julie Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Mar. 2023
• Studies in young children have linked it to elevated risks for asthma and autism.
  — Ada Fenick, M.d., Parents, 20 Sep. 2023
• Nyad was blown off course and contented with shoulder pain, asthma and stings from jellyfish and Portuguese man-of-war.
  — Jack Smart, Peoplemag, 3 Nov. 2023
• Other Asthma Risk Factors Sleep wasn’t the only factor linked to asthma.
  — Nick Blackmer, Verywell Health, 25 May 2023
• Asthma is a chronic disease that affects the lungs and causes asthma attacks.
  — Claire Gillespie, Health, 17 Mar. 2024
• Flovent and its generic belong to a class of asthma medications known as controllers.
  — Dr. Edith Bracho-Sanchez, CNN, 13 Feb. 2024
• That means their asthma gets worse when exposed to an allergen like cat dander, which could lead to an asthma attack.
  — Rachel Kurzius, Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2023
• And the other thing is green space — more park areas, especially noticing that there were a lot of kids in my neighborhood that had asthma.
  — William Camargo, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2023
• But as the smoke spreads, those with lung diseases like asthma and COPD, as well as children and the elderly, are at risk of suffering adverse side effects.
  — Cara Lynn Shultz, Peoplemag, 8 June 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024