How to Use congenital in a Sentence

congenital

adjective

• The irregularity in my backbone is probably congenital.
• Guilt is a congenital part of being a woman; we are born with it.
  — Vicky Spratt, refinery29.com, 6 Apr. 2020
• Eva was born with Down syndrome and a congenital heart defect.
  — Carissa Tozzi, House Beautiful, 30 June 2020
• Most cases of cerebral palsy are congenital, meaning that you are born with the condition.
  — Heidi Cope, Health, 13 Sep. 2024
• Of course, the antipathy between players and owners is a congenital issue as old as the game itself.
  — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 23 June 2020
• Organizers will share the story of a child with a rare congenital heart defect that underscores the need for the fundraiser.
  — Joan Rusek, cleveland, 9 June 2020
• People with sickle-cell disease, a congenital illness, lack an enzyme that helps the hemoglobin molecules in their blood maintain shape.
  — Ricardo Nuila, The New Yorker, 26 June 2020
• Just weeks before welcoming their newborn, the couple opened up in an emotional vlog about finding out that their baby on the way has the same congenital heart defect as Phil.
  — Claudia Harmata, PEOPLE.com, 1 June 2020
• The cause of the death of one child and the congenital health problems that Joshua’s suffers was cytomegalovirus, or CMV.
  — Stephen Singer, courant.com, 5 July 2021
• Men with syphilis in the study passed the disease to their wives, who gave birth to babies with congenital syphilis.
  — Julie Washington, cleveland, 19 Oct. 2020
• The murmur turned out to be a congenital heart defect that was caught in time for treatment.
  — Nancy Clanton, ajc, 27 Jan. 2021
• Wall had moved into Life Care about a year ago after experiencing congenital heart failure; Connolly said he was given months to live.
  — Jay Greene, Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2020
• One of the voters the team helped was Heidi Bull Calf, whose 19-year-old son has a congenital heart defect.
  — Maggie Astor, New York Times, 6 July 2021
• Care for congenital heart defects has advanced over the years, and the future looks even brighter.
  — Mark Gurarie, Verywell Health, 18 Sep. 2024
• And then there are people like me, congenital anosmics who were born with no sense of smell.
  — Sharon Waters, SELF, 3 Mar. 2021
• The child had a congenital heart defect and later died at the hospital.
  — Erik Ortiz, NBC News, 2 Dec. 2022
• Statewide, the rate of babies born with the disease, a condition known as congenital syphilis, jumped more than 40-fold in just five years.
  — Anna Maria Barry-Jester, ProPublica, 4 Mar. 2024
• Frech was born with congenital limb differences and ran on his first blades aged four.
  — Amy Woodyatt, CNN, 4 Sep. 2024
• But when Gilster’s mare Southern Classic dropped her second foal in April of 2017, the newborn had a congenital cataract in its right eye.
  — Jason Frakes, The Courier-Journal, 2 Sep. 2020
• At birth, 90% of babies born with congenital CMV will not show any visible symptoms of the virus.
  — Essence, 19 July 2022
• Bronny had surgery for a congenital heart defect and had his début with the U.S.C. Trojans four months later.
  — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 23 June 2024
• Fauci wrote it was not known whether the diseases were in fact AIDS, and not a congenital disease, but that some appeared to meet the criteria.
  — Molly Beck, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 4 Dec. 2021
• Every case of congenital syphilis, when a baby is born with the disease, is avoidable.
  — Talia Herman, ProPublica, 1 Nov. 2021
• Haven, a 3-year-old with a congenital heart condition, just wants a playset.
  — al, 19 Aug. 2020
• Rates of congenital syphilis—syphilis passed from the mother to baby during childbirth—also jumped in the past decade, going up 937%.
  — Korin Miller, Health, 7 Feb. 2024
• Once there, the boy, who suffered from a congenital heart defect, collapsed and began having a seizure.
  — Jim Salter, ajc, 30 Nov. 2022
• Annika was born with the same congenital birth defect as Shaquem and wore a prosthetic on her right arm.
  — Mike Bianchi, Orlando Sentinel, 24 Aug. 2022
• Though common, these moles lead to melanoma more often than congenital moles.
  — Madison Yauger, Health.com, 8 June 2021
• Babies die as congenital syphilis continues a decade-long surge across the U.S.
  — Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2022
• The boy had a congenital heart defect, and once at his grandmother’s house, collapsed and began having a seizure.
  — Greg Wehner, Fox News, 30 Nov. 2022

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024