How to Use symptom in a Sentence

symptom

noun

• The worst symptom of the flu is the shortness of breath and chest tightness.
  — Cincinnati Enquirer, The Enquirer, 26 Sep. 2022
• The leak may be more a symptom of that decline than a cause.
  — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 8 May 2022
• Like the first case, the second worker has mild symptoms.
  — Brenda Goodman, CNN, 3 Oct. 2024
• What are the signs and symptoms of eating too much protein?
  — Women's Health, 25 May 2023
• One of my most notable symptoms was swollen, itchy, red eyes.
  — Gaylyn Henderson, Mph, Health, 25 Jan. 2025
• James didn’t play against the Timberwolves because of the flu-like symptoms.
  — Khobi Price, Orange County Register, 9 Apr. 2024
• And in 12–14 year olds, more girls than boys had at least one symptom lasting more than two months.
  — Giovana Gelhoren, PEOPLE.com, 23 June 2022
• Depending on the cause, symptoms may not be present for many years.
  — Soma Mandal, Verywell Health, 4 Feb. 2025
• The pills must be started within the first five days of symptom onset.
  — Catherine Ho, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 May 2022
• Initial symptoms, the CDC says, include fever, chills, headaches, a rash with both flat and raised bumps, and sore throat.
  — Cara Lynn Shultz, People.com, 2 Dec. 2024
• Greene’s call, however, is not a cure for the disease in our body politic but a symptom of it.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 25 Feb. 2023
• To be effective, the pills need to be taken within five days of the first symptom.
  — Zachary Hansen, ajc, 10 May 2022
• Twitter is a symptom of the broader disease that is Big Tech.
  — WSJ, 22 Nov. 2022
• Chest pain is the most frequent symptom of heart attack for both men and women.
  — Julie Washington, cleveland, 10 May 2022
• Severe head pain, though, often on one side of the head, is a major symptom.
  — Abigail Libers, SELF, 9 Mar. 2022
• Most West Nile cases are mild, causing flu-like symptoms and a rash.
  — Brenda Goodman, CNN, 27 July 2024
• In the small study, those who received the higher doses had flulike symptoms for a few hours.
  — Gina Kolata, New York Times, 12 Nov. 2023
• She's used to the tell-tale symptom of a butterfly rash, raised scales across the face and nose that appear during flares.
  — Alaina Demopoulos, Allure, 3 June 2022
• Pinkett Smith — who has alopecia — has been vocal in the past about her hair loss as a symptom of the illness.
  — Ashley Shannon Wu, Vulture, 27 Mar. 2022
• Campbell said that the time to treat high blood pressure is before symptoms start.
  — Rachel Murphy, Verywell Health, 14 May 2024
• Start to finish, the worst of my achalasia symptoms took almost four years to find and treat.
  — Rachel S. Hunt, Washington Post, 6 July 2024
• The events will feature a discussion of the different types of strokes, the signs and symptoms, and risk factors.
  — Brian Gioiele, Connecticut Post, 3 Oct. 2024
• The symptoms have been present for nearly a week, and there is tenderness to both sides of the upper abdomen.
  — Eric Snoey, Twin Cities, 26 May 2024
• Hiding the keys just treats a symptom, fleetingly at that.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 30 Jan. 2023
• This is the most straightforward way to prevent symptoms.
  — Jake Parks, Discover Magazine, 25 Nov. 2023
• Headache, fever, nausea or vomiting are some of the symptoms.
  — Christina Zdanowicz, CNN, 15 Sep. 2023
• The symptoms of vestibular migraine—the world spinning like a globe, days of painless dizziness—seemed to match.
  — Shayla Love, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2023
• Circling back to Gruner’s comment about the root versus the symptom, employees are the root.
  — Shep Hyken, Forbes, 10 July 2022
• In the first stage, the most distinctive symptom of syphilis is a chancre, which is a circular lesion on the body.
  — Amy Yurkanin | [e-mail], al, 24 Sep. 2022
• The drugs can slow or stop the disease, but don't actually reverse its disabling symptoms.
  — Jon Hamilton, NPR, 6 Feb. 2025

Last Updated: 21 Feb 2025