How to Use pneumonia in a Sentence

pneumonia

noun

• He caught pneumonia over the winter.
• In the fall of 2017, Lynda Cruz caught the flu and died of pneumonia.
  — Brittany Wallman, sun-sentinel.com, 3 Apr. 2022
• That would still be triple the death rate from flu and pneumonia in 2019.
  — Greg Ip, WSJ, 19 Jan. 2022
• The respirator got her through the worst of the pneumonia.
  — Maria Kefalas, STAT, 22 Dec. 2023
• The pneumonia wasn't going away, and then my lungs filled with blood.
  — Tricia Despres, People.com, 19 Dec. 2024
• Her son Carl Crook said the cause of death, in a hospital, was pneumonia.
  — Clay Risen, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Aug. 2023
• Scarpati was the first to get sick—a bout with pneumonia that left him depleted.
  — Negar Azimi, The New York Review of Books, 30 Mar. 2023
• Art Laboe, a disc jockey for more than 70 years and one of the first to play rock 'n' roll on the West Coast, died Friday of pneumonia.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 11 Oct. 2022
• My great aunt Rose died of pneumonia at 18, way before I was born.
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 10 Nov. 2022
• The cause was pneumonia, his wife, Margaret Moore, said.
  — New York Times, 29 Mar. 2022
• And among children, 1 in 20 gets pneumonia, which is the most common cause of death from measles in young children.
  — Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 5 Mar. 2024
• Now Ruben had pneumonia, and once more his sister took charge.
  — Eric A. Gordon, Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2022
• The cause of her death, in a hospital, was pneumonia, her son Jasper Conran said.
  — Penelope Green, New York Times, 22 May 2024
• About 1 in 20 children with measles gets pneumonia, which is the most common cause of death from measles in young children.
  — Detroit Free Press, 27 Feb. 2024
• The virus can also cause pneumonia, which can make older adults very sick.
  — Annie Berman, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Sep. 2023
• Less than 10% of dogs who get the flu develop pneumonia.
  — Dallas News, 8 Dec. 2022
• Muscle strains, pneumonia, a blood clot in the lungs, and heart issues can all cause chest pain while breathing.
  — Sarah Jividen, Health, 18 July 2024
• As many as 1 in 20 children with measles develop pneumonia, the leading cause of death for those in the age group who get the disease.
  — Katie Mogg, NBC News, 20 Feb. 2024
• His wife, Kim Yancey-Moore, said the cause was complications of Covid and pneumonia.
  — New York Times, 14 Apr. 2022
• Proust died at fifty-one, in Paris, of pneumonia, on November 18th, and last year was the centenary of his death.
  — William Benton, The New Yorker, 8 Feb. 2023
• The cause was pneumonia, said a daughter, Jennifer Grizenko.
  — Washington Post, 4 May 2022
• His son Jason Blatt said the cause was pneumonia that led to cardiac arrest.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 25 Oct. 2021
• Brittany died at 32 years old, with her cause of death noted as pneumonia.
  — Rebecca Aizin, People.com, 21 Dec. 2024
• She was later discharged with just a case of pneumonia.
  — Blake Nelsonstaff Reporter, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Dec. 2022
• What to know about dog pneumonia:Is there an outbreak of pneumonia in dogs?
  — Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA TODAY, 19 Aug. 2023
• As a child, Rudolph had pneumonia, scarlet fever and polio.
  — Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2022
• Two ear infections, one round of steroids and a pneumonia scare later, her husband caught the bug, too.
  — Ariana Eunjung Cha, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Dec. 2022
• Don Kamoya, a grandson, said that the cause of death, in a hospital, was pneumonia and kidney failure.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 12 Aug. 2022
• The cold became pneumonia, which killed him just over one month after his term began.
  — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 20 Oct. 2022
• His son, Steven, said the cause was pneumonia and congestive heart failure.
  — Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2022

Last Updated: 22 Jan 2025