How to Use epileptic in a Sentence

epileptic

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• Marcela didn’t know it at the time, but the boy had a history of epileptic seizures.
  — Stephania Taladrid, The New Yorker, 21 June 2022
• In this case, the injury is surgery to the affected area of the brain that is causing the epileptic seizures.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 24 Aug. 2021
• Locating the source of an epileptic seizure can be tricky.
  — cleveland, 18 Mar. 2021
• Her seizures slowed to 12 a day thanks to seven anti-epileptic meds.
  — Lauren Levy, Good Housekeeping, 2 Mar. 2018
• Officials at the time said the death likely stemmed from an epileptic seizure.
  — Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News, 11 July 2023
• In 1977, Wesley, a teen-ager, drowned in the family hot tub as a result of an epileptic seizure.
  — Richard Brod, The New Yorker, 28 July 2021
• Griffith-Joyner passed away in 1998 of an epileptic seizure.
  — Brooklyn White, Essence, 3 June 2021
• The driver had suffered an epileptic seizure and veered onto the sidewalk.
  — Geir Moulson and Frank Jordans, Anchorage Daily News, 8 June 2022
• His death was caused by an epileptic seizure, his family says.
  — Dewayne Bevil, orlandosentinel.com, 22 July 2019
• Layleen Polanco, a young trans Latina, died from an epileptic seizure at Rikers in June.
  — Melissa Gira Grant, The New Republic, 12 Aug. 2019
• Rogers, who is epileptic, says the stress of the situation resulted in seizures.
  — Sydney Scott, Essence, 3 Jan. 2020
• Eichenwald claims the message sent by Rivello caused him to have an epileptic seizure.
  — Peter Wade, Esquire, 18 Mar. 2017
• Layleen Polanco, 27, died of an epileptic seizure while in solitary confinement on June 7 of last year.
  — Justin Carissimo, CBS News, 27 June 2020
• The list includes suicides, drug overdoses and at least one epileptic seizure.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2023
• DeOrsey died of an epileptic seizure two days before his 31st birthday.
  — Sun-Sentinel.com, 29 May 2017
• Back home, a coworker tended Heil's rescue dog, which is prone to epileptic seizures.
  — Bruce Henderson, charlotteobserver, 3 July 2018
• The parent whose epileptic child needs marijuana to calm her seizures.
  — Steven Senne, The Seattle Times, 20 Nov. 2018
• Wayne, who is epileptic, has been hospitalized several times over the years due to seizures.
  — Char Adams, PEOPLE.com, 4 Sep. 2017
• And not just sadness but irreparable grief over the death of a beloved brother, Wesley, who drowned at age 15 during an epileptic seizure.
  — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 22 July 2021
• Fintepla is meant to treat a rare epileptic disorder called Dravet syndrome.
  — Sy Mukherjee, Fortune, 28 Feb. 2020
• Local reports said he was believed to have suffered an epileptic seizure while trying to cross the Eburinde River.
  — Fox News, 14 Aug. 2019
• The cause was thought to be an epileptic seizure, according to his manager, Jackie Strydom.
  — Alan Cowell, New York Times, 1 June 2023
• The kick was so hard that Rosales was left with a broken nose and later had an epileptic seizure, according to the complaint filed in federal court.
  — Alison Dirr, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 18 June 2019
• Eventually, Leila awakens from an epileptic fit to the sound of him playing back her voice messages, and slowly the events that brought her to his rooms are revealed.
  — Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Sep. 2022
• Even though a few African countries are rising up to the challenge of spending on R&D, their efforts remain largely epileptic.
  — Amindeh Blaise Atabong, Quartz Africa, 13 Dec. 2019
• Kelly Lopez cried while saying she was denied an extra bag of ice for her sister, who is epileptic and bedridden.
  — Ray Sanchez, CNN, 11 Oct. 2017
• When the son was 5, epileptic seizures confined his father to a sanitarium and forced him to give up the family’s feed and grain business.
  — Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2019
• Brody’s five now, slogging through 40 hours of therapy a week, autistic and epileptic and as stubborn as the disease that, at its very worse, was causing him to have one or two seizures an hour.
  — Zak Keefer, Indianapolis Star, 27 June 2018
• But in another example, a patient had an epileptic seizure on an airplane and was unconscious for about 15 minutes.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 29 Aug. 2023
• Just ask Crista Eggers, who has been trying to legalize medical marijuana since 2019 to treat her son, Colton, who suffers daily epileptic seizures that his physicians believe are treatable with cannabis.
  — Jonathan Weisman, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024