How to Use dysentery in a Sentence

dysentery

noun
  • On his travels across the world he has been struck down with dysentery.
    — Josephine Livingstone, New Republic, 4 Oct. 2017
  • Half of the camp has come down with dysentery & food poisoning.
    — Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press, 28 May 2018
  • There were outbreaks of cholera, beriberi, dysentery, malaria.
    — Carl Nolte, SFChronicle.com, 14 Sep. 2019
  • In the episode, a dysentery epidemic has spread across the Ridge.
    — Sharareh Drury, Variety, 7 Apr. 2022
  • Olena worried that there might be an outbreak of dysentery.
    — James Verini, The Atlantic, 12 May 2026
  • Lewis claimed that the odors also caused diseases like plague, smallpox and dysentery.
    — Karina Wilson, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Oct. 2020
  • Stephen and his fellow laborers flee, but he is slowed down by dysentery and typhoid fever.
    — Terry W. Hartle, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 July 2024
  • Malaria, dengue fever, dysentery, and in a few cases typhus, hit man after man.
    — Salama Udaipurwala, JSTOR Daily, 30 Oct. 2024
  • Stark kept traveling despite dysentery, measles, and dengue fever, at home on the back of a donkey or camel.
    — National Geographic, 12 Nov. 2019
  • Cholera, typhoid, and dysentery have been vanquished in the richer nations.
    — Time, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Edward of Woodstock died six years later of dysentery at the age of 45.
    — David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Nov. 2021
  • He was held captive for 28 months and suffered from starvation and dysentery.
    — Richard Goldstein, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2022
  • Hunger, lice, and dysentery dominated life as a prisoner of war.
    — Angela Charlton, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Aug. 2019
  • As soon as the adoring couple arrived in Venice, Sand was attacked by dysentery.
    — Benita Eisler, WSJ, 8 June 2018
  • The lime juice on its own would have significantly prevented scurvy and dysentery.
    — Brenda Cain, cleveland.com, 8 June 2017
  • At the least, the air would have been less toxic, and there might have been lower mortality rates from scurvy, dysentery and typhus.
    — A. Roger Ekirch, WSJ, 22 Aug. 2017
  • Before the advent of sanitary sewers, millions died of cholera, dysentery and plagues.
    — Spike Carlsen, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Nov. 2020
  • Guests hoping to encounter the spirits of former boarders may run into the 8-year-old twin boys who died of dysentery at the inn.
    — Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 18 Oct. 2022
  • The bark is still used to treat inflammation, bronchitis, dysentery, leprosy, and piles.
    — Dorothy Wickenden, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2022
  • Many of the bathrooms were non-functioning, and the chamber pots were late in arriving—just as an attack of dysentery hit the camp.
    — Jake Whitney, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Nov. 2024
  • As for emeralds, Van Cleef knows its way around the stone that was once thought to cure everything from dysentery to paranoia.
    — Stellene Volandes, Town & Country, 1 Nov. 2016
  • As a result, deaths from cholera, dysentery and typhoid fever fell dramatically.
    — Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 3 July 2026
  • McDonald claims that Seacole even harmed some troops by treating dysentery with lead and mercury.
    — Tina Hillier, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Feb. 2020
  • Some days the ills of the city seem miasmal and mental, a delirium of drugs and dysfunctions, a souring in the gut like dysentery.
    — Andrew Cockburn, Harper’s Magazine , 5 Jan. 2023
  • Players struggle to keep people and oxen alive in the face of starvation, dysentery and other dangers.
    — Livia Gershon, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 May 2021
  • One major contributing factor to the rise of dysentery is the lack of public restrooms in Portland.
    — Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 6 Mar. 2025
  • For instance, bacteria that cause cholera, botulism, and dysentery all do so with the help of toxins encoded by prophage.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 1 Feb. 2018
  • Raymond Kinzounza, weak with dysentery, went to a makeshift hospital.
    — Brad Schmitt, Nashville Tennessean, 19 Oct. 2025
  • His digestive system was wrecked by recurring dysentery and colic, and the calomel prescribed by his doctors only made things worse.
    — Literary Hub, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Diseases like smallpox, measles, and dysentery killed two-thirds of the 1 million people who died in the Civil War.
    — Patrick Skerrett, STAT, 28 Apr. 2021

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