How to Use metastasize in a Sentence

metastasize

verb
  • The hope is that it can be contained and doesn’t metastasize from there.
    — Matt Sullivan, Rolling Stone, 8 Oct. 2021
  • The cancer had already metastasized and had spread to her spine and pelvis.
    — Chad Estes, idahostatesman, 22 Oct. 2016
  • The threat, of course, is that those pockets of weakness may metastasize.
    — Talmon Joseph Smith, New York Times, 2 May 2025
  • What’s new is how the distortion has metastasized and spread.
    — Rand Richards Cooper, Hartford Courant, 8 Jan. 2026
  • The scourge of anti-semitism has metastasized across our country.
    — Dan Gooding amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 June 2025
  • The cancer had also metastasized to a lymph node in her armpit and her sternum.
    — Vanessa Etienne, Peoplemag, 31 May 2023
  • The main clue to what lets melanoma cells metastasize was that those that do chow down on lactate in the bloodstream.
    — Sharon Begley, STAT, 18 Dec. 2019
  • All the men had cancers that had not metastasized, or spread to other parts of their bodies.
    — Brenda Goodman, CNN, 11 Mar. 2023
  • Further scans showed her cancer had returned and metastasized to the bone.
    — Joelle Goldstein, Peoplemag, 30 Aug. 2023
  • The cause was lung cancer that metastasized to the brain, said his son, Michael Austin.
    — Michael S. Rosenwald, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Cancer has metastasized and spread to distant sites throughout the body.
    — Christopher Bergland, Verywell Health, 1 Aug. 2024
  • The cancer, already at Stage 4, had metastasized to her sacrum, a bone at the base of her spine.
    — Marie Milano, Country Living, 16 Feb. 2019
  • The protest quickly metastasized into an anti-regime storm.
    — Ali Vaez, Time, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Stage 4 means the cancer has metastasized and spread through the body and are often incurable.
    — Michelle Cortez, Bloomberg.com, 17 May 2017
  • But in May 2017, she was told the cancer had metastasized and spread to her bones.
    — Dave Quinn, PEOPLE.com, 23 Aug. 2019
  • Peggy had the tumor removed through surgery, but the cancer had metastasized to her lungs and liver.
    — Jenny Vrentas, SI.com, 19 Oct. 2017
  • None of Homan’s worries metastasized.
    — Alex Nowrasteh, Oc Register, 2 Dec. 2025
  • In stage 4a, rectal cancer has metastasized (spread) to one distant organ or part of the body.
    — Corey Whelan, Verywell Health, 15 Aug. 2024
  • Over ten years, the scope of the conflict has grown, and the underlying issues have metastasized.
    — Emma Ashford, Foreign Affairs, 18 Feb. 2025
  • Agents, forced to work without pay, called in sick; security lines metastasized, sometimes snaking out to the curb.
    — Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 9 May 2026
  • Her husband, Jim Freed, told the Post that the cancer metastasized to her brain.
    — Annabel Gutterman, Time, 7 Jan. 2020
  • The problems metastasized because the staff lacked the foot soldiers in the locker room to keep everyone on board.
    — Albert Breer, SI.com, 29 Mar. 2018
  • The other is that, when faced with the above, a sense of humor thus metastasizes into active rebellion.
    — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 25 May 2018
  • For a patient like Biden, where the cancer has metastasized to the bones, caregivers need to look out for bone fracture risks.
    — Madeline Mitchell, USA Today, 22 May 2025
  • Yeah, Wagner’s leader was killed, but the army metastasized.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 18 Mar. 2026
  • The fact that the cancer had metastasized means the malignant cells had spread to other parts of the body, forming tumors.
    — Kimi Robinson, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2025
  • In Vermont, though, state officials didn’t wait for the crisis to metastasize.
    — Mike Rogoway | The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 27 May 2020
  • Four years later, Lewis said her cancer had metastasized and advanced to Stage 4.
    — Rebecca Luther, TVLine, 11 June 2025
  • The cause was colon cancer that had metastasized to his liver, according to his wife, Pinkey Reid.
    — Tim Page, Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Speech Changes Changes in speech may be the result of breast cancer that has metastasized to the vocal cords, the mouth, or the brain.
    — Lana Barhum, Verywell Health, 3 Feb. 2025

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