How to Use gangrene in a Sentence

gangrene

1 of 2 noun
  • When gangrene set in, the soldier's leg had to be amputated.
  • Pictured, a patient with gangrene and necrosis, caused by plague.
    — Jack Guy, CNN, 6 May 2020
  • His father died at age 62 from a gangrene infection in his feet.
    — Brandi Morin, Rolling Stone, 23 Apr. 2023
  • Her leg, pierced by a bullet, was mangled and infected with gangrene.
    — Eric Adler, kansascity, 10 May 2018
  • The stench is meant to evoke filth, gangrene and the barnyard, Gibbons Backus said.
    — Jonathan Hunley, Washington Post, 28 May 2017
  • Yes, gangrene—a condition that causes body tissue to rot away.
    — Jessica Migala, Health.com, 19 Sep. 2019
  • At work, cardiac arrests, cancer, and gangrene are normal for me.
    — Clayton Dalton, The New Yorker, 27 May 2020
  • This can lead to blood clots, infections and, in extreme cases, gangrene or sepsis.
    — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 4 July 2017
  • Fournier has made this joke on Twitter before, a reference to a rare form of gangrene that goes by the same name.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 25 Mar. 2021
  • Tetanus and gangrene were serious threats as germ theory was only in its infant stages.
    — Katie Nodjimbadem, Smithsonian, 4 Apr. 2017
  • Even though surgeons tried to save his leg, Bullock would end up developing gangrene.
    — Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 10 Feb. 2022
  • Underneath, the 28-year-old's foot has started to blacken from gangrene.
    — Julie Zaugg, CNN, 4 Oct. 2019
  • The patient was a man in his eighties with a battery of health conditions, including gangrene.
    — Jake Bittle, The New Republic, 9 Feb. 2021
  • The disease causes a plethora of blood clots that have lead to Marie contracting gangrene and necrosis.
    — Robyn Merrett, PEOPLE.com, 1 Aug. 2019
  • Fred was 87, living alone in a walk-up apartment in Brooklyn, in the process of losing two toes to gangrene.
    — John Leland, Health.com, 22 Feb. 2018
  • Republicans will try to deflect away from this political gangrene with all kinds of whataboutism.
    — Zachary B. Wolf, CNN, 12 Apr. 2021
  • McKinley survived the gunshot but developed gangrene in the wound and died eight days later.
    — Kevin A. Wilson, Car and Driver, 31 Mar. 2023
  • And once Deutsche Bank makes some strides in treating its gangrene, its competitors might also be more tempted to team up.
    — Washington Post, 1 Oct. 2019
  • In one case, the hospice didn’t treat ulcers on a patient’s heels, and an amputation was required after gangrene set in.
    — Steve Lopezcolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2019
  • The disease progresses to ulcers or gangrene, and can lead to amputation.
    — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 26 Mar. 2022
  • Those crystals stab cells and tissues to death, which is why severe cases of frostbite often lead to gangrene and amputations.
    — Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 27 Feb. 2015
  • Doctors and her family knew early on that Tadych would likely lose one or more of her extremities to dry gangrene.
    — Annysa Johnson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 Oct. 2020
  • The infirmary was beset with the usual epidemics of hospital gangrene.
    — John J. Ross, WSJ, 13 Oct. 2017
  • That eventually cut off blood supply to tissues and lead to Fournier's gangrene, the researchers explained.
    — Jessica Migala, Health.com, 19 Sep. 2019
  • But in the First World War, the gangrene was the result of, basically, rotting feet.
    — Eric Johnson, Recode, 15 Dec. 2018
  • Slavet avoided trench foot, which could have led to gangrene and amputation, thanks to the thick socks his mother had knitted him back in Dorchester.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 6 Dec. 2019
  • As her career later stalled, Bleeth’s personal life was spinning out due to cocaine abuse that resulted in gangrene in her nose.
    — Kathleen Perricone, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Mar. 2026
  • In a case from just last year, a lawsuit alleges the then-resident suffered from deterioration of wounds and gangrene.
    — Kevin G. Hall, Miami Herald, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Speier had to undergo extremely painful, twice-daily hyperbaric chamber treatments to try to stem the gangrene in her leg.
    — Katya Cengel, ELLE, 20 Dec. 2022
  • Perez had both of his legs amputated because gangrene had been eating away at his legs for almost two months, Perez-Dilan said.
    — Ryan Gaydos, Fox News, 31 Aug. 2018

gangrene

2 of 2 verb
  • In the most extreme case, limbs that have succumbed to gangrene will be amputated.
    — Natalie Stone, PEOPLE.com, 2018-05-31
  • There’s more, though, than just the death of a child poisoning Michael, some secret nugget of shame gangrening his heart.
    — Barbara Vandenburgh, azcentral, 2018-04-05
  • Jessica had to undergo 15 surgeries after escaping the well, and today her right foot is still smaller than her left due to losing a small toe to gangrene.
    — Diana Bruk, Good Housekeeping, 2017-03-08

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