How to Use tuberculosis in a Sentence

tuberculosis

noun

• The method is used chiefly for an old tuberculosis test.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 21 Aug. 2022
• Texas has long been one of four states that account for half of the tuberculosis cases in the country.
  — Peggy O’Hare, San Antonio Express-News, 23 Mar. 2022
• Most of them are said to have died of consumption, the disease now known as tuberculosis.
  — NBC news, 16 Nov. 2022
• Parents and staff at the 445-student school learned about the tuberculosis case via email Friday, the county said.
  — Fzarkhin, oregonlive, 18 Aug. 2023
• Parts of the plant can be used as an expectorant, and the leaves were once used for treating tuberculosis.
  — Latria Graham, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Dec. 2022
• The movie begins with Emily in the throes of death (from tuberculosis) and leaps backward to trace the secrets and desires that are at risk of dying with her.
  — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 22 Feb. 2023
• Narciso Lopez has spent more than two decades working to control the spread of tuberculosis in South Texas.
  — Colleen Deguzman, San Antonio Express-News, 24 Feb. 2023
• At least 1,200 people with tuberculosis are thought to have fled Ukraine.
  — New York Times, 26 Mar. 2022
• Khan was highly sought after around the state and the country as an expert on tuberculosis.
  — Howard Koplowitz | [e-mail], al, 21 June 2022
• McBride said that while causes of death varied among the students, tuberculosis was the single largest killer.
  — NBC news, 16 Nov. 2022
• In 1896, New York City passed an anti-spitting ordinance that aimed to curb the spread of tuberculosis, with penalties of up to one year in jail.
  — John Last, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 May 2022
• When Daisy was three and a half, her father died of tuberculosis, and her mother took over management of the college.
  — Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2022
• Deaths from malaria, HIV and tuberculosis were cut in half.
  — Mark Suzman For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 20 Sep. 2022
• For a while, a nurse who worked in the tuberculosis program would ride along to give penicillin shots on a volunteer basis.
  — Talia Herman, ProPublica, 1 Nov. 2021
• These health care workers saw the worst of the Spanish Flu, polio and tuberculosis epidemics, two world wars and the Great Depression.
  — Laura Garcia, San Antonio Express-News, 28 June 2021
• Month after month, a few guinea pigs came down with tuberculosis.
  — Megan Molteni, Wired, 13 May 2021
• In the sixth grade, he was struck with tuberculosis and, while bedridden, read a book on Buddhism that began his lifelong interest in the faith.
  — Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 3 Sep. 2022
• Alaska has long had one of the highest rates of tuberculosis infection in the country.
  — Annie Berman, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Nov. 2021
• In January, Nunavut announced a five-year plan to track tuberculosis in the wastewater.
  — Melody Schreiber, NPR, 2 May 2024
• Spending just a thousandths of the cost of the Paris agreement could save more than a million people from dying of tuberculosis today.
  — Bjorn Lomborg, Forbes, 20 May 2021
• Early in the Covid-19 pandemic, new diagnoses of tuberculosis dropped like a stone in the United States.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 23 Mar. 2023
• Two of the women had tuberculosis, and two others were pregnant.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2022
• The United States and Alabama have relatively few cases of tuberculosis compared to the rest of the world.
  — Amy Yurkanin | [e-mail], al, 15 June 2023
• Amidst the tuberculosis epidemic, young white women began leaving the nursing field in droves in the late 1920’s to escape the disease.
  — Melissa Noel, Essence, 7 May 2024
• Maud died of tuberculosis in February 1911, when Edwina was nine and her sister Mary was five.
  — Andrew Lownie, Town & Country, 7 Sep. 2021
• The living conditions were also poor and kids died from tuberculosis, whooping cough, measles, the flu and smallpox.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 Oct. 2021
• Zak was right: both mother and daughter may have had tuberculosis.
  — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2021
• The ancients of Greece and China confirmed tuberculosis by tossing a patient’s sputum onto hot coals and smelling the fumes.
  — Scott Sayare Robert Petkoff Anna Diamond Quinton Kamara, New York Times, 14 June 2024
• And while many of these poorer countries have made great strides against infectious diseases, threats from the likes of malaria or tuberculosis remain high.
  — Jess Craig, Vox, 25 Sep. 2024
• Though the family never lacked money or prestige, the future president and his three siblings suffered from bouts of poor health, including asthma, tuberculosis and spinal trouble.
  — Peter Zablocki, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024