How to Use metastasize in a Sentence

metastasize

verb

• The cause was lung cancer that metastasized to the brain, said his son, Michael Austin.
  — Michael S. Rosenwald, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2023
• But in May 2017, she was told the cancer had metastasized and spread to her bones.
  — Dave Quinn, PEOPLE.com, 23 Aug. 2019
• The hope is that it can be contained and doesn’t metastasize from there.
  — Matt Sullivan, Rolling Stone, 8 Oct. 2021
• The cancer, already at Stage 4, had metastasized to her sacrum, a bone at the base of her spine.
  — Marie Milano, Country Living, 16 Feb. 2019
• The cancer had already metastasized and had spread to her spine and pelvis.
  — Chad Estes, idahostatesman, 22 Oct. 2016
• Her husband, Jim Freed, told the Post that the cancer metastasized to her brain.
  — Annabel Gutterman, Time, 7 Jan. 2020
• The main clue to what lets melanoma cells metastasize was that those that do chow down on lactate in the bloodstream.
  — Sharon Begley, STAT, 18 Dec. 2019
• Cysts can metastasize to other regions of the body as well.
  — Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 26 Jan. 2012
• The cancer had also metastasized to a lymph node in her armpit and her sternum.
  — Vanessa Etienne, Peoplemag, 31 May 2023
• All the men had cancers that had not metastasized, or spread to other parts of their bodies.
  — Brenda Goodman, CNN, 11 Mar. 2023
• If the sarcoma has already metastasized — spread to other parts of the body — the chance of cure drops to less than 30 percent.
  — Matteo Trucco, M.d., miamiherald, 29 May 2017
• The cancer has since metastasized to her lungs, GMA reports.
  — Joelle Goldstein, PEOPLE.com, 12 Dec. 2019
• Stage 4 means the cancer has metastasized and spread through the body and are often incurable.
  — Michelle Cortez, Bloomberg.com, 17 May 2017
• Since then, the cancer has returned twice and metastasized.
  — New York Times, 9 Mar. 2018
• Further scans showed her cancer had returned and metastasized to the bone.
  — Joelle Goldstein, Peoplemag, 30 Aug. 2023
• The problems metastasized because the staff lacked the foot soldiers in the locker room to keep everyone on board.
  — Albert Breer, SI.com, 29 Mar. 2018
• The back pain that initially caused her to postpone the first half of her concert tour, has turned out to be breast cancer that has metastasized to the sacrum.
  — Katie Atkinson, Billboard, 30 May 2017
• Cancer has metastasized and spread to distant sites throughout the body.
  — Christopher Bergland, Verywell Health, 1 Aug. 2024
• Melt ponds grew and metastasized across their surfaces.
  — National Geographic, 15 Nov. 2016
• ACC most commonly metastasizes to the lungs, far less often in the liver.
  — Tim Layden, SI.com, 11 July 2017
• In stage 4a, rectal cancer has metastasized (spread) to one distant organ or part of the body.
  — Corey Whelan, Verywell Health, 15 Aug. 2024
• The cause was colon cancer that had metastasized to his liver, according to his wife, Pinkey Reid.
  — Tim Page, Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2023
• The earliest is Stage 1A, a small tumor that has not metastasized.
  — Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 7 Sep. 2017
• While Nixon busily wished it away, the scandal metastasized.
  — Ash Carter, Town & Country, 26 Dec. 2012
• Peggy had the tumor removed through surgery, but the cancer had metastasized to her lungs and liver.
  — Jenny Vrentas, SI.com, 19 Oct. 2017
• My doctor recently gave me the news that the cancer I was treated for last year has returned and metastasized.
  — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2023
• In the fall of 2020, Robert Sachs was prescribed a medication to treat prostate cancer that had metastasized into some of his bones.
  — Ed Silverman, STAT, 22 Jan. 2024
• In Vermont, though, state officials didn’t wait for the crisis to metastasize.
  — Mike Rogoway | The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 27 May 2020
• The next year, however, new camps had metastasized around Reynosa and into Matamoros.
  — Jack Herrera, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2024
• But the euphoria over Hasina’s exit has since metastasized into bickering over which direction the country should take.
  — Charlie Campbell, TIME, 3 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024