How to Use disease in a Sentence
disease
noun- They are working to stop the spread of disease in rural areas.
- Thousands die of heart disease each year.
- He sees crime as a disease that too often plagues the poor and disadvantaged.
- He suffers from a rare genetic disease.
- The article cites intolerance as one of the most dangerous of society's diseases.
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Bedbugs can be found in every part of the world and are not known to spread disease.
—Morgan Winsor, ABC News, 3 Oct. 2023
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These pigs can spread disease to humans, to pets, to wildlife, and to livestock.
—Adam Yamaguchi, CBS News, 15 Feb. 2025
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Ozzy has since been doing tai chi to help with symptoms of the disease.
—Vanessa Etienne, Peoplemag, 3 Apr. 2024
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His wife, Cathy Kuttner, said the cause was Alzheimer’s disease.
—Clay Risen, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2023
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Over the past three weeks, 11 cats have died at the facility from the disease.
—From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 17 Oct. 2022
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Some died of the disease, others were culled to prevent the virus from spreading.
—Gabrielle Emanuel, NPR, 14 June 2024
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The most reliable way to prevent the aging and disease the sun’s rays can cause?
—Justin Fenner, Robb Report, 23 July 2024
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That shot was found to reduce the risk of severe disease by 80% among people 65 and up.
—Aria Bendix, NBC News, 16 Feb. 2023
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The disease is spread when the midges bite an infected deer and then bite other deer.
—Shelley Jones, Chicago Tribune, 8 Sep. 2024
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But in fact, the much bigger burden of disease is in older adults.
—Fortune Editors, Fortune, 31 May 2023
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Both her parents had the disease, and her father had lost his legs, his vision and then his life to it.
—Eileen Finan, Peoplemag, 27 Dec. 2023
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How long that takes depends on the course of the disease and farmer operations.
—Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 2025
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As of Monday, the disease had been detected in 79 dairy herds across nine states.
—Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2024
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They were married on the peak three weeks later, and Colleen took on the role of caretaker as the disease progressed.
—Sean P. Means, The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 Aug. 2023
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The first treatments for the disease cost tens of thousands of dollars, but in recent years, costs have come down, Davies said.
—al, 28 Sep. 2022
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Here's what to know about how this disease is diagnosed.
—Amanda MacMillan, Health, 15 Apr. 2023
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Both families worry about how fast and when the disease will progress.
—Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post, 19 Mar. 2023
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The bacterium is often found in the nose and throat of people without causing the disease.
—Monique Calello, USA TODAY, 2 Sep. 2023
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Those tools are in place and ready for future disease threats, so health department wouldn’t have to start from scratch.
—Youri Benadjaoud, ABC News, 1 Apr. 2023
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More people means more disease, and humans would have looked for new ways to treat diseases.
—Ryan McRae and Briana Pobiner, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Dec. 2022
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The palace added at the time that Camilla was tripled-vaccinated against the viral disease.
—Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 22 Feb. 2023
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Her hearing is impaired and her voice no longer carries, both effects of the disease.
—Scott MacFarlane, CBS News, 18 Nov. 2023
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Osgood-Schlatter's disease causes pain and swelling around the knee joint.
—Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 13 Jan. 2023
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As West Point residents were pottering about their errands, their lives were halted by a public health system that wanted to contain the disease.
—Edna Bonhomme, Rolling Stone, 11 Mar. 2025
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Who among us has ever searched on Google for a possible diagnosis regarding some strange symptom, only to find every possible explanation—from the simplest to the rarest disease?
—Massimiliano Melis, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2025
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