How to Use asthma in a Sentence

asthma

noun
  • The money could also be used to help a child manage their medicine or take better care of their asthma.
    Jen Christensen, CNN, 18 Aug. 2022
  • The gas, which smells like rotten eggs, can affect people with breathing problems such as asthma.
    Fox News, 4 Aug. 2022
  • The gas, which smells like rotten eggs, which can affect people with breathing problems such as asthma.
    Dánica Coto, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Aug. 2022
  • This helps prevent dry throats, nightly congestion, allergies, and asthma.
    Amy Schulman, Peoplemag, 3 Aug. 2022
  • Electric vehicles, unlike diesel ones, won’t spew pollutants that cause conditions like asthma.
    Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Aug. 2022
  • Her asthma would keep her from fully participating in basketball at school, but that didn't stop her from harboring dreams of playing hoops in college.
    Erik Ortiz, NBC News, 11 Aug. 2022
  • Months later, George revealed that the family ended up spending much of the year at home in order to protect their son Alexander, who has asthma.
    Alex Gurley, Peoplemag, 1 Aug. 2022
  • Side effects include low blood pressure, low heart rate, worsening exercise tolerance, and worsening asthma.
    Heidi Cope, Health, 6 Nov. 2024
  • 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
  • Scientists have tied the high rate of childhood asthma in the area to dust from the shrinking lake’s shores.
    Melody Petersen, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2024
  • Her son was born with asthma and had to have a breathing mechanism for the first year of his life.
    Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 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.
    Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 20 May 2024
  • But for those with severe asthma, the impact can be much greater, Peden says.
    Linda Carroll, TIME, 30 May 2024
  • 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
  • Just think about the chat bots, the virtual telehealth, and apps that can help to predict your asthma attack.
    Quartz, 6 Dec. 2022
  • 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
  • In modern medicine, it is used to help treat ulcers, asthma, and bronchitis.
    Madhur Jaffrey, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2022
  • Over the past 50 years, treatment options in the event of an asthma or COPD attack—a similar event—have been relatively unchanged.
    Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2024

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