How to Use incurable in a Sentence

incurable

adjective
  • Yet is what ails this team incurable, even with their aces on the mound?
    Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 21 Oct. 2022
  • For more on grief The first six months of grief:My dad died of an incurable, rare disease.
    David Oliver, USA TODAY, 16 Mar. 2023
  • That’s good news, since the virus is incurable and can kill newborn infants.
    Maggie Fox /, NBC News, 7 Feb. 2018
  • By the time that new tumor has grown large enough to show up on a CT scan, the cancer is likely incurable.
    Delia O'Hara, Discover Magazine, 18 May 2018
  • Snow has continued in his job for the Flames despite the toll of the cruel and incurable disease.
    Chad Finn, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Mar. 2023
  • Stage 4 means the cancer has metastasized and spread through the body and are often incurable.
    Michelle Cortez, Bloomberg.com, 17 May 2017
  • Loudon’s parents, at least, won’t have to wrestle with the question of what to do if their son is at risk for an incurable disease.
    Sarah Elizabeth Richards, Smithsonian, 6 Feb. 2018
  • Essay on loss:My dad died of an incurable, rare disease.
    Amy Haneline, USA TODAY, 22 Nov. 2022
  • Everything reeks of that seemingly incurable lust for stuff—‘buy me, buy me’ is the cry.
    Ian Vorster, Discover Magazine, 1 Oct. 2014
  • Half-a-year later, the disease remains incurable and deadly to some.
    oregonlive, 25 Nov. 2020
  • But now Zeldin sounds like he’s come down with an incurable case of Trump Derangement Syndrome.
    Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Some of them fear that efforts to exterminate the incurable will lead, inevitably, to assaults on the cured.
    Gary Thompson, Philly.com, 28 Feb. 2018
  • An incurable leg infection hobbled the saint’s step but not his quest.
    James Matthew Wilson, WSJ, 13 May 2021
  • An incurable disease with little to no research behind it wasn’t the sort of thing that was supposed to happen to us.
    Lindzi Scharf, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2020
  • In the last instance, Philby is driven by the incurable drug of deceit itself.
    Philip Kerr, New York Times, 2 June 2017
  • The insects that cause greening, which is incurable, came to Florida in 1998 and threaten more groves each year.
    Shera Avi-Yonah, Washington Post, 17 June 2023
  • Existing treatments have done little to slow the march of the incurable disease.
    Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 10 June 2021
  • The disease is incurable but often has long remission times—which has been the case with Meschery.
    Jack McCallum, SI.com, 15 June 2017
  • This was like trading a first-round pick in the draft for an aging journeyman with an incurable knee injury.
    Hal Singer, Wired, 25 Feb. 2021
  • But many things may cause memory loss — and not all of them are permanent, or even incurable.
    Episcopal Retirement Services, Cincinnati.com, 21 Feb. 2018
  • The incurable chronic disease scars some patients’ lungs and skin.
    NBC News, 20 Jan. 2022
  • His incurable optimism in the face of all logic seems to have infected his staff.
    Dallas News, 14 Sep. 2022
  • These drugs can benefit about half of all patients with the incurable disease.
    Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 18 June 2018
  • Fantine in Les Misérables and Mimi in La bohème were also victims of the incurable cough of death.
    Adam Epstein, Quartz, 14 Mar. 2020
  • Conway’s charisma lies in his desire to share his incurable lust for learning, to spread the contagion and the romance.
    Quanta Magazine, 28 Aug. 2015
  • The incurable disease was listed as a condition that also led to her death.
    Nardine Saad, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Take Amanda Nerstad, a 44-year-old mother of two living with a rare form of incurable lung cancer.
    Grace Wade, Health.com, 2 Dec. 2021
  • Don’t let your mind linger over incurable problems, but take steps to protect yourself from issues that might pop up in a worst-case scenario.
    Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 25 Mar. 2021
  • Wasting Muscle wasting is inevitable in certain incurable diseases, like ALS.
    Laura Campedelli, Verywell Health, 30 July 2024
  • Drug companies largely have focused on attacking amyloid-beta as a way to slow Alzheimer's, an incurable disease that afflicts 6.9 million Americans.
    Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 30 July 2024

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