How to Use emphysema in a Sentence

emphysema

noun
  • Teal spent the final year of his life sick in bed with emphysema.
    — Gary Schwab, charlotteobserver, 4 July 2017
  • David Lynch may never be able to direct again due to health risks posed by emphysema.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 5 Aug. 2024
  • In people with emphysema, the air sacs in the lungs (alveoli) are damaged.
    — Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 18 Nov. 2023
  • There are no treatments to reverse emphysema, but many can improve symptoms.
    — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Crawford was employed by Hicks, who had emphysema, as a live-in caretaker at the time.
    — Marilyn Icsman, Cincinnati.com, 14 June 2018
  • Cuomo said the victim was an 82-year-old woman with emphysema.
    — Fox News, 15 Mar. 2020
  • My mother died of lung cancer, my father had emphysema and liver cancer.
    — Katrease Stafford, Detroit Free Press, 31 Oct. 2017
  • Campbell has a history of emphysema and asthma, putting her at greater risk for exposure to the virus.
    — Cassandra Jaramillo, Dallas News, 21 May 2020
  • The man’s emphysema progressed, which prevented him from getting the surgery.
    — Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2024
  • My mom, who is 79, has emphysema that keeps her on oxygen and bedridden nearly 24 hours a day.
    — Jill Gleeson, Woman's Day, 6 Dec. 2016
  • At that time doctors diagnosed my father, a heavy smoker, with emphysema.
    — WIRED, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Dyke's father, who had emphysema, died in 1972.
    — Liz McNeil, PEOPLE, 25 Nov. 2025
  • That’s when Faliero was diagnosed with bullous emphysema, a type of lung disease where pockets of air form in the walls of your lungs.
    — Cara Lynn Shultz, People.com, 14 May 2025
  • The murk posed a real threat to Texans with emphysema or asthma, to the elderly or the infirm.
    — Scott W. Stern, The New York Review of Books, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Crawford had cared for Hicks, a retired electrician who had emphysema.
    — Sarah Brookbank, Cincinnati.com, 8 Feb. 2018
  • Coughing spells had prevented him from sleeping, and his panoply of emphysema inhalers did little to quell his wheezing.
    — Pauline W. Chen, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2020
  • Lynch, who began smoking at the age of eight, had been diagnosed with emphysema in 2020.
    — News Desk, Artforum, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Susan Winter and Paul Nelson have said the cause of death was likely emphysema.
    — Dave Collins, Fortune, 30 Apr. 2023
  • The patient was in his 60s, an African American man with emphysema.
    — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 18 Oct. 2024
  • He and Dorothy were married from March 1940 until his death from lung cancer and emphysema.
    — Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Group 3 comes from chronic lung diseases like emphysema or COPD.
    — Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 26 June 2026
  • By his early ’90s, playing the sax no longer was an option due to battles with sciatica and then with emphysema, his daughter said.
    — Bob Goldsborough, Chicago Tribune, 3 Mar. 2025
  • That raises the question of whether smokers with emphysema should be on the at-risk list and receive the vaccine earlier than, say, people with severe asthma.
    — Peter Fimrite, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Dec. 2020
  • Exposure to this dust can cause lung cancer, kidney cancer and other lung diseases such as emphysema and silicosis.
    — Rachel Frazin, The Hill, 1 Dec. 2025
  • John wrote his entire section and did some editing on the early versions before the combination of this season’s nasty flu and his emphysema sadly took him from us.
    — Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 19 Apr. 2018
  • Jessie, a lifelong smoker, was diagnosed at the age of forty-five with emphysema, which would eventually be compounded by esophageal cancer.
    — Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 1 July 2024
  • Ann Schonberg was a Detroit homemaker and a lifelong smoker with mild emphysema.
    — Paula Span, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2020
  • For many years, researchers have tried to find ways to shrink the enlarged, overinflated lungs of advanced emphysema patients without resorting to high-risk surgery.
    — Marie McCullough, Philly.com, 22 May 2018
  • Left San Francisco, now in the south of France and battling emphysema, not really in the game, and gets drawn back into the game.
    — Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 July 2024
  • The two remained wed until her death in January 2007 after a long struggle with emphysema.
    — J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 26 Feb. 2023

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