How to Use untreatable in a Sentence

untreatable

adjective

• At the same time, the worst possible side effect of these treatments is death; untreatable leukemia ends the same way.
  — Charles Graeber, WIRED, 25 July 2019
• In the worst case, the water would be untreatable, forcing the cities to use alternate supplies for a time.
  — New York Times, 24 June 2021
• And since the discovery of KRAS mutations in 1983, cancers that have it have been thought to be untreatable.
  — Jaimie Seaton, Scientific American, 13 Feb. 2024
• There were doctors there who had stopped thinking of her kind of cancer as untreatable.
  — John Jeremiah Sullivan, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2019
• Our father, Paul Nichols, a practicing physician, died in 1944 at age forty-four of acute leukemia, untreatable at that time.
  — Simon Callow, The New York Review of Books, 24 Sep. 2020
• A third of those will get the drug-resistant strain of gonorrhea, a condition that may soon be untreatable.
  — Christian Millman, Discover Magazine, 6 June 2018
• His condition was, at the time, untreatable; he was futilely instructed to work no more than four hours a day.
  — Edward Rothstein, WSJ, 6 Sep. 2022
• In the past, Dodd has worked in labs designated BSL-4, the highest level, which can handle airborne pathogens that may be untreatable.
  — Elisabeth Eaves, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2020
• This video, produced by the CDC, outlines the dangers out untreatable gonorrhea.
  — Lauren Castle, azcentral, 6 Apr. 2018
• More careful use of antibiotics could help avoid a near-untreatable strain of S. typhi emerging.
  — The Economist, 26 Apr. 2018
• Three families, each with a child battling DIPG, a rare, untreatable form of brain cancer, needed help for the holidays.
  — Tribune News Service, al, 25 Dec. 2020
• To make matters worse, feline heartworm disease is currently untreatable: The medicines used on dogs would be fatal to cats.
  — Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 24 July 2023
• Despite being left with a 13-inch scar on her stomach, Grunewald's cancer returned as small tumors in her liver and was untreatable through surgery.
  — Chris Chavez, SI.com, 11 June 2019
• That, Shaul hopes, will inhibit the progression of treatable low-grade tumors to more advanced, untreatable stages.
  — Larry Luxner, sun-sentinel.com, 18 Nov. 2020
• These lessons learned provide a model for finding treatments for the thousands of currently untreatable diseases and the millions of people who live with them.
  — George Vradenburg, STAT, 29 May 2021
• Since then, canine distemper, an untreatable virus that can infect many types of carnivores, has spread among Amur tigers across the subspecies' range in Russia's far east.
  — Rachel Nuwer, Scientific American, 26 Mar. 2021
• Spencer, a 13-year-old who in recent years became a beloved figure on the race route, was recently diagnosed with untreatable liver cancer.
  — Kate Armanini, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Jan. 2023
• The actor passed away in his Northern California home on Monday morning from an untreatable form of cancer.
  — Katie Campione, PEOPLE.com, 25 Aug. 2021
• The canines convened in honor of Spencer, who died two months ago after being diagnosed with untreatable cancer.
  — Katie McInerney, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Apr. 2023
• Kymera wants to use the body’s innate ability to break down and recycle proteins and redirect it to target untreatable diseases.
  — Jonathan Saltzman, BostonGlobe.com, 15 July 2019
• Every headache was a brain tumor; every ache was cancer; every rash was something untreatable and fatal.
  — Molly Jong-Fas, Vogue, 26 Aug. 2021
• We're saddened to announce the passing of K-9 Ruby following a sudden, acute, and untreatable illness.
  — CBS News, 16 May 2022
• Then, Arends, 64, told the chamber that a doctor last month had diagnosed him with an untreatable, terminal condition.
  — Andrea Salcedo, Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2020
• The pig disease — a highly contagious and untreatable outbreak that is not fatal to humans but can be spread by us — has now extended swiftly out of China.
  — Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 17 Dec. 2019
• Podiatrist Ravi Kamble recalls a patient with a gangrenous foot, an untreatable infection that spread to the bone.
  — Kate Golembiewski, Discover Magazine, 9 Dec. 2020
• This has raised concerns of the development of more super bugs that may be untreatable with current medications.
  — Jason Lemon, ajc, 28 Nov. 2017
• His son Andrew said the cause was a combination of pulmonary fibrosis and a more recent emergence of lung cancer that was untreatable because of the fibrosis.
  — John Schwartz, New York Times, 5 May 2020
• This type of hearing loss, which affects many people, is currently untreatable; it isn’t helped by hearing aids or cochlear implants, both of which depend on the auditory nerve to send the final signals to the brain.
  — Ashley P. Taylor, Discover Magazine, 14 Sep. 2012
• The people who build patient advocacy groups are resilient in a way that few are before they firsthand witness the devastation of untreatable disease.
  — Jon Hu, STAT, 18 Dec. 2023
• The ultimate fear is that eventually, gonorrhea could prove wholly untreatable, in at least some people.
  — Benjamin Ryan, NBC News, 3 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024