How to Use backache in a Sentence

backache

noun

• The backache, by contrast, went on for months, even years.
  — The Economist, 20 Sep. 2019
• The woman suffered cuts and bruises to her knee and a backache.
  — David K. Li, NBC News, 24 Sep. 2019
• His illness began with a bad backache, and then fevers that went up and down for a few days.
  — Denise Grady, New York Times, 3 June 2021
• By the end of my first month with the bump, my backache was chronic, and the bump felt as familiar to me as my own breasts.
  — Morgan Thomas, The Atlantic, 16 May 2021
• One was a woman with a headache and another, a man with a backache.
  — Victoria Forster, Forbes, 28 June 2022
• Presendieu Pierre Mervil has a backache and a rash infection.
  — Rosa Flores and Holly Yan, CNN, 18 Sep. 2019
• Opioids began to be prescribed for long-term pain such as backaches.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 11 Oct. 2019
• Just one week after the attacks, he was prescribed a muscle relaxant for a backache.
  — Washington Post, 20 Aug. 2021
• In the very next chapter, Druckerman develops a chronic backache, which turns out to be the blood cancer non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
  — Allison Pearson, New York Times, 29 May 2018
• An Auburn inventor and a team of entrepreneurs are marketing a product that will be good news to tennis players with backaches the world over.
  — William Thornton, AL.com, 31 May 2017
• Another boy waves a pot of Vicks VapoRub in the air, in his family a cure for everything from backache to depression.
  — Irene Hsiao, Chicago Reader, 16 May 2018
• Days after returning home from a Punta Cana vacation, Marie Trainer called out of work with a backache and nausea.
  — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 4 Aug. 2019
• The lotion is packaged in an airtight bottle that delivers a measured 2 milligrams of C.B.D. with each pump, and is designed to soothe stiff joints, backaches, and muscle spasms.
  — Sunhee Grinnell, Vanities, 27 Apr. 2018
• Opioids — previously used mostly for patients with cancer, at the end of their lives or with pain after surgery — began to be prescribed for long-term pain such as backaches.
  — Washington Post, 10 Oct. 2019
• Desk chair: Upgrading from a wooden kitchen chair to an ergonomic office chair can reduce backaches and bad posture.
  — oregonlive, 11 Nov. 2019
• There are also rake alternatives, including push-power leaf collectors that help take some of the backache out of raking.
  — Colin Payne, Popular Mechanics, 26 June 2017
• Patients are also using it to reduce pain (from backaches to severe abdominal pain), stop smoking and overeating, and combat the stress of being in a hospital in the first place.
  — Robert Ito, Los Angeles Magazine, 29 Mar. 2018
• As well as being sanitized, Recaro’s seats will give massages and predict backaches.
  — Fortune, 9 May 2018
• That means patients can consult with doctors about everything from flu symptoms or a backache to a psychiatry visit.
  — Fortune, 22 Apr. 2020
• An adolescent girl who had years of muscle and joint pain, backaches, headaches and lethargy, received a diagnosis of chronic fatigue syndrome.
  — Lena H. Sun, chicagotribune.com, 16 June 2017
• Warning signs of preterm birth include change in vaginal discharge, pelvic pressure, low backache, cramps and contractions that occur before 37 weeks, and abdominal cramps that may include diarrhea, per the CDC.
  — Serena Coady, SELF, 11 May 2022
• Transgender people get colds, backaches, and cancer like everyone else.
  — Steve Sanders, Fortune, 18 Jan. 2018
• Minus the (organizational) headache or, when camping is concerned, backache.
  — Amy Tara Koch, New York Times, 9 Aug. 2016
• Up to 53% reported physical and psychological issues such as fatigue, insomnia, obesity, backache, joint and neck pain, poor vision, breathlessness, stress, and loneliness.
  — Prachi Salve, Quartz India, 12 Feb. 2020

Last Updated: 16 Aug 2024