How to Use AIDS in a Sentence

AIDS

noun

• The artist had spent the ’80s losing friends and lovers to the ravages of AIDS.
  — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2024
• Cohn, who was a closeted gay man, died from AIDS in 1986.
  — Tatiana Tenreyro, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 May 2024
• The star was just 59 at the time, and had been diagnosed with AIDS a year earlier.
  — Julia Moore, Peoplemag, 19 Feb. 2024
• One of her friends died from AIDS and another from a drug overdose.
  — Debbie Truong, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2023
• In response to the AIDS epidemic, members were forbidden to even eat in restaurants.
  — Hannah E. Meyers, National Review, 10 Sep. 2023
• His first partner died of AIDS, provoking the first in a series of withering bouts of depression.
  — Michael Granberry, Dallas News, 20 July 2023
• But the reservoir of respect for her led even critics of her views on preventing AIDS to regard her with affection.
  — Chris Buckley, New York Times, 10 Dec. 2023
• Those became game-changers in the fight against AIDS, credited with saving millions of lives worldwide.
  — Sheryl Gay Stolberg, New York Times, 23 July 2023
• In 2006, the clinics first addressed the high mortality rates of truckers during the AIDS epidemic.
  — Cameron Pugh, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Mar. 2024
• There were, there were people dying of AIDS in my environment, in my atmosphere.
  — Abc News, ABC News, 27 June 2024
• But the 25-minute segment became a watershed in public perceptions about AIDS.
  — Brian Murphy, BostonGlobe.com, 12 July 2023
• The patient tested positive for AIDS and had recently received a transfusion from a blood bank.
  — Meaghan Tobin, Washington Post, 11 Dec. 2023
• But by the late 1980s, they were blasted by tragedy and into obscurity thanks to socio-political unrest, AIDS and, least of all, disco.
  — Tracy Kawalik, SPIN, 5 Mar. 2024
• In the 1980s, the union was confronted with the AIDS crisis, which had a particularly harsh impact on the theatrical community.
  — Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2023
• Most were cancer treatment drugs, but others could have been used to treat AIDS, multiple sclerosis, arthritis and other diseases.
  — Katie Moore, Kansas City Star, 16 Apr. 2024
• Haring intentionally left the work unfinished as a commentary on the AIDS crisis.
  — Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Jan. 2024
• Consistently, notable films and television series have returned to the onset of the AIDS crisis to great acclaim, and far removed from the paralyzing, overwhelming terror of the past.
  — Nicholas Bell, SPIN, 11 Jan. 2024
• For select populations—homeless AIDS patients and homeless veterans—this has already to some extent been done.
  — Jennifer Egan, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023
• The police quickly closed the case, deeming it the suicide of a gay man amid the AIDS crisis, but his family had trouble believing that narrative, especially after the bodies of other gay men turned up at the bottoms of other cliffs.
  — The New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2023
• Later, there were commercials for her fragrance line and pioneering philanthropy in AIDS research.
  — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2024
• Sheppard was charged with lewd molestation, rape by instrumentation, first-degree rape, exposing others to AIDS and pattern of criminal offenses, court records show.
  — Mike Stunson, Kansas City Star, 22 Jan. 2024
• Worldwide, poor sanitation kills more children annually than AIDS, malaria, and measles combined.
  — Oliver Franklin-Wallis, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2023
• Perhaps the most jarring is the cultural hostility some storytellers and artists are currently facing, something reminiscent of the festival’s earliest days amid the AIDS crisis.
  — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 1 Sep 2024