How to Use diseased in a Sentence

diseased

adjective

• Remove any diseased fruit from the tree and the ground beneath the tree.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 19 Feb. 2024
• Rather than compost the old, diseased plants, put them in the green waste.
  — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Nov. 2020
• The caveat to that statement is, there are still very few of them even in very old and very diseased tissue.
  — Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 27 July 2022
• The ones that do attend look slightly used and very diseased.
  — Bob Larsen, SPIN, 12 Feb. 2022
• The nanotubes are made of a superfine membrane that could carry drugs to diseased parts of the body.
  — Breanna Draxler, Discover Magazine, 13 Dec. 2013
• People thought the work itself was diseased and were burning it and throwing it on the street.
  — Max McCormack, Harper's BAZAAR, 1 June 2023
• Those trees, however, turned out to be diseased and were burned.
  — John Muyskens, Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2023
• Just remove the weak and diseased branches as well as those that point to the center or rub against others.
  — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Feb. 2024
• In people with cancer, that attack is aimed at the diseased cells.
  — Markham Heid, TIME, 27 Dec. 2023
• Toss it all in your compost pile (except for diseased plants).
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, House Beautiful, 17 June 2020
• If a diseased flower falls on the soil, remove it along with the surrounding soil and lay down some new soil.
  — Steve Bender, Southern Living, 28 Jan. 2024
• Gary Oldman plays Lamb as a cynic with a diseased heart of something that is not quite gold.
  — Stephen Rodrick, Variety, 29 Nov. 2023
• Crews are also slated to remove dead and diseased trees and plant more than 40 new trees.
  — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Nov. 2023
• Brush and trees were removed from the site, but Laney said that trees that were removed were dead, diseased or non-native species.
  — Megan Rodriguez, San Antonio Express-News, 2 May 2022
• Broken or diseased branches, on the other hand, should be removed promptly at any time of the year.
  — Nadia Hassani, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 June 2024
• The regimen destroys many of the diseased cells and weakens the immune system to keep the body from rejecting the donor cells.
  — Wunmi Bakare, Essence, 19 June 2021
• Some 34 trees, most of them dead or diseased, were removed in January.
  — Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 13 May 2024
• Once the tree is 3-4 feet high and after any lemons have ripened, prune out any dead or diseased branches and remove any stems that aren’t strong enough to hold fruit.
  — oregonlive, 11 June 2023
• In most animals, that process inhibits tumors and gets rid of diseased cells.
  — R.m. Davis, Science | AAAS, 23 June 2021
• Prune out and dispose of all diseased leaves and stems in the fall while thinning the planting to increase air movement to promote drying.
  — Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 19 Aug. 2023
• That’s because there have only been a handful of options available to study how a diseased or healthy heart pumps blood.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 16 July 2022
• Pruning of citrus is only necessary for removal of dead or diseased wood or to keep the tree in bounds.
  — Joshua Siskin, Orange County Register, 27 Jan. 2024
• Put the old, diseased plants into greenwaste (don’t compost).
  — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Nov. 2023
• Dead, damaged, or diseased plants are much more vulnerable to fire, and can cause fires to spread more quickly.
  — Elizabeth Waddington, Treehugger, 2 Aug. 2023
• Start by removing any canes that appear to be dead, diseased or dying.
  — oregonlive, 25 Feb. 2023
• While salicylic acid helps shed dead skin, coal tar slows the growth of diseased cells that form plaques on the skin—a double whammy for those looking for relief.
  — Lindsay Modglin, Health, 13 Feb. 2023
• But no matter how diseased, do *not* call the infected zombies.
  — Leah Campano, Seventeen, 15 Feb. 2023
• First, entirely remove all diseased or dead canes by cutting them back to their point of origin.
  — Dan Gill, NOLA.com, 19 Aug. 2020
• The crew saved every hardwood tree except one diseased black walnut.
  — Page Leggett, Charlotte Observer, 1 Feb. 2024
• After the first year of growth, prune lightly during the dormant season, removing weak side shoots and dead or diseased wood.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 19 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Aug 2024