How to Use bursitis in a Sentence

bursitis

noun
  • Max Meyer missed the final month of the season with right shoulder bursitis.
    — Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 12 Feb. 2025
  • Koehler, 31, was on the disabled list for one month last season because of bursitis in his right shoulder.
    — Bill Shaikin, latimes.com, 2 Mar. 2018
  • Kremchek said Herrera had one bone spur on the back of his shoulder, and also had some bursitis that was able to be cleaned up.
    — Zach Buchanan, Cincinnati.com, 2 Aug. 2017
  • Parker was seventy-one, small and thin with big dark eyes, and suffered from a weak heart, bursitis, and reduced eyesight.
    — Laurie Gwen Shapiro, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2020
  • Also, center Robert Williams was sidelined with left hip bursitis.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 2 Nov. 2019
  • Trochanteric bursitis affects the pointed upper, outside edge of the femur (the thigh bone), called the greater trochanter.
    — Lana Barhum, Verywell Health, 8 Aug. 2024
  • Tendonitis in his right elbow and bursitis in his right shoulder forced him to set down his guitar and mandolin in the ’90s.
    — Lawrence Toppman, charlotteobserver, 25 Jan. 2018
  • Also, bursitis, tendinitis, and chronic strain are overuse injuries that may also cause painful joints.
    — Dr. Roshini Raj, Health, 9 Feb. 2024
  • As a result, the knee brace is not only a good choice for issues like arthritis and bursitis but also for people who want to use it for working out.
    — Jack Byram, Verywell Health, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Pain in the neck and shoulder radiating down the neck causes more concern for compression of a nerve in the neck than bursitis.
    — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Gay missed 23 games beginning in December while dealing with bursitis in his right heel.
    — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 26 Apr. 2018
  • The 93-year-old, who has hip bursitis, used his 5-wood to make a hole-in-one on the third hole last month at Green Valley.
    — Brandon Hannahs, USA TODAY, 18 May 2018
  • The most common of these injuries include carpal tunnel syndrome, tendonitis, or bursitis of the shoulder or elbows.
    — Susan Wagner, NBC News, 5 July 2022
  • Rodon spent nearly three months recovering from left biceps bursitis and made just three starts before the All-Star break.
    — Colleen Kane, chicagotribune.com, 13 July 2017
  • His stamina in the face of a punishing schedule amazes the people who travel with him — who don’t have ankylosing spondylitis or bursitis in the knee.
    — Cleve R. Wootson Jr., Washington Post, 29 June 2017
  • Trochanteric bursitis, inflammation of the greater trochanteric bursa, causes pain at the side of the hip and extends to the outside of the thigh.
    — Lindsay Curtis, Health, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Ahmed said the discomfort, which has been diagnosed as bursitis and biceps tendinitis, can be traced back to the injury that bothered him for much of last year.
    — Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 26 Sep. 2021
  • Right-hander Logan Webb, currently rehabbing from right knee bursitis, has thrown in back-to-back.
    — Justice Delos Santos, Mercury News, 15 May 2026
  • The veteran small forward was sidelined in late December with bursitis in his right heel and expected back within two weeks.
    — Ailene Voisin, sacbee, 29 Jan. 2018
  • Brown missed his second game in a row because of shoulder bursitis and Robert Williams missed his fifth consecutive game because of a sore knee.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 23 Apr. 2021
  • Gay is expected to miss two weeks after an MRI late last month revealed retrocalcaneal bursitis in his right heel.
    — Tom Orsborn, San Antonio Express-News, 5 Jan. 2018
  • Chapman has not pitched since May 12 because of what Girardi has called tendinitis and bursitis in the left shoulder.
    — Associated Press, latimes.com, 24 May 2017
  • With center Dwight Powell out because of bursitis in his left knee, the Mavericks struggled to get much going inside.
    — Michael Wagaman, star-telegram, 28 Mar. 2018
  • Charlotte is expected to be without starting center Cody Zeller, who did not play against the Clippers due to left shoulder bursitis.
    — Tom Orsborn, San Antonio Express-News, 21 Mar. 2021
  • This is the second stint on the DL for Tropeano because of a shoulder problem that recently was diagnosed as bursitis.
    — Jeff Miller, latimes.com, 11 July 2018
  • Besides muscle pulls, I’d be concerned about bone lesions, nerve compression, trauma to the soft tissues in the joint (such as a labral tear), bursitis or blockages in the arteries to the hip.
    — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 4 Jan. 2022
  • Minor league rehab starts for the two aren’t imminent, but the Mets expect first baseman Jorge Polanco (Achilles bursitis) to start one next week.
    — Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 26 May 2026
  • Before the game, the Mariners announced that the team’s ace, Felix Hernandez, was expected to miss three to four weeks because of bursitis in his right shoulder.
    — The Associated Press, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2017
  • Johnson, too Back, but not all the way back, on Saturday was forward James Johnson, who had missed the previous three games with bursitis in his right ankle.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun-Sentinel.com, 24 Dec. 2017
  • Fellow utility man Hyeseong Kim is a bit behind Hernandez’s recovery timetable with left shoulder bursitis.
    — Doug Padilla, Oc Register, 17 Aug. 2025

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