How to Use rheumatism in a Sentence

rheumatism

noun

• Patients at the town spa come to treat rheumatism and phlebitis.
  — Bob Morris, Town & Country, 3 May 2018
• Some of the men thought they were being treated for rheumatism or bad stomachs.
  — Deneen L. Brown, Washington Post, 16 May 2017
• Some believe the bones, ground into a powder, can cure rheumatism and arthritis.
  — National Geographic, 29 Sep. 2016
• When rheumatism forced him to seek treatment in Seattle, best wishes were addressed to Young Viking.
  — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Dec. 2020
• Down from the mountains, fur-trapping explorer Jim Bridger retired with his goiter and rheumatism in his farmhouse on the other side of the crick.
  — Darryl Levings, kansascity, 18 July 2017
• That paper suggests the Amazonians used the bite to treat rheumatism for centuries.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 14 July 2022
• One member, Yuri Yudin, turned back on January 27 because his rheumatism had flared up, and the knee and joint pain was too severe to continue.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 31 Mar. 2022
• Tiger-bone wine is believed to cure rheumatism, weakness, or paralysis.
  — Jenni Marsh, CNN, 15 Aug. 2020
• The resurgence in demand for tiger bone wine in particular, which is believed to cure rheumatism and impotence, has helped drive the success of these farms.
  — National Geographic, 1 Feb. 2016
• The slow-growing shrub has medicinal properties — its root can be used to treat rheumatism — and is used in dyes, varnish, lipstick and incense.
  — Tonya Alanez, Sun-Sentinel.com, 17 Aug. 2017
• China has banned its sale since 1993; and demand for its use in traditional Chinese medicine (for fevers, rheumatism and gout) has fallen.
  — The Economist, 8 Aug. 2019
• Haygarth pitted these rods against sham, wooden Perkins tractors that looked just the same as the 5-guinea ones on sale, and found that 4 of 5 patients with rheumatism reported that their pain improved.
  — Rosie Mestel, Discover Magazine, 19 May 2021
• The French, who once owned the territory, harvested the roots of the blue-flowered chicory plant to make teas and medicines to treat jaundice, liver enlargement gout, and rheumatism.
  — Adele Jackson-Gibson, Good Housekeeping, 3 Feb. 2020
• His father suffered from rheumatism but salicylic acid caused him to vomit.
  — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 10 Aug. 2017
• One woman brought her son, who suffered from a chronic illness that doctors in the region hadn’t been able to identify; Shikankov quickly diagnosed the boy’s rheumatism.
  — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2020
• In fact, back in the 19th century, oil was an annoying by-product of brine wells drilled by salt prospectors; it was either discarded or bottled and hawked to gullible customers as a cure for rheumatism and sprains.
  — Mac Margolis, Discover Magazine, 17 Jan. 2011
• The vegetable’s diuretic effects come from the amino acid Asparagine, and has been used to treat swelling, rheumatism, and premenstrual water retention.
  — Stephanie Feuer, Good Housekeeping, 5 Sep. 2017
• It’s said to help with ailments ranging from rheumatism and arthritis to respiratory issues and skin problems.
  — Mosha Lundström Halbert, Vogue, 21 July 2022
• Tiger bones are coveted in Asia, especially China, for making tiger-bone wine, a status symbol thought to convey strength, or as a paste used to treat ailments such as rheumatism and back pain.
  — Nichole Sobecki, National Geographic, 21 Nov. 2019
• It has also been traditionally used in Ayurvedic medicine to treat a range of health issues like breathing problems, rheumatism, serious pain, and fatigue.
  — Korin Miller, SELF, 24 Sep. 2018
• Arsenic has been used medicinally in Eastern and Western medicine for almost 2,500 years for a variety of conditions, from rheumatism to syphilis.
  — New York Times, 17 Mar. 2020
• Because of his war experiences, Metcalf became so crippled with rheumatism that his colleagues had to carry him upstairs to the county courtroom.
  — Mary Jane Brewer, cleveland.com, 9 Apr. 2018
• The disease is mostly a relic of the past in rich and middle-income countries, where pediatricians quickly treat strep throat and rheumatic fever in children, which causes the joint pain once called childhood rheumatism.
  — Donald G. McNeil Jr., New York Times, 29 May 2017
• If inhaled, the organisms could end up in the lungs and cause a pneumonia called, variously, coccidioidomycosis or desert rheumatism or Valley fever.
  — Lisa Sanders, M.d., New York Times, 2 Nov. 2022
• Even so, some practitioners still use rhino horn to treat ailments including fever, rheumatism and gout, while applying tiger-bone products to relieve joint pains and boost male virility.
  — Chun Han Wong, WSJ, 30 Oct. 2018
• Rhino horn is traditionally used to treat ailments including fever, rheumatism and gout, and tiger-bone products have been used for relieving joint pains and boosting male virility.
  — Chun Han Wong, WSJ, 12 Nov. 2018
• Patients suffering from tuberculosis, rheumatism and gout flocked to the property’s three turn-of-the-20th-century soaking pools, surrounded by rocks and palm trees.
  — Mickey Rapkin, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2021
• Jackson, who survived diseases like smallpox, malaria, dysentery, rheumatism and dropsy and endured physical disability most of his adult life after being shot in the chest during a duel, was just shy of Mr. Trump in stature, standing 6-foot-1.
  — Peter Baker, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2017
• Typically dried, ground into powder, and put into pills, pangolin scales are used in a range of traditional Chinese remedies, from treatments to help mothers with lactation to relief for arthritis and rheumatism.
  — Paul Hilton, National Geographic, 17 June 2019
• In particular, citizens of Germany and Britain used cod liver oil to treat rickets, rheumatism, gout and tuberculosis during the 18th century.
  — Susan Scutti, CNN, 1 Mar. 2018

Last Updated: 10 Dec 2024