How to Use rheumatism in a Sentence

rheumatism

noun
  • Patients at the town spa come to treat rheumatism and phlebitis.
    — Bob Morris, Town & Country, 3 May 2018
  • Austen’s most common complaint was rheumatism, or pain in her back and knee.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 12 Dec. 2025
  • Some of the men thought they were being treated for rheumatism or bad stomachs.
    — Deneen L. Brown, Washington Post, 16 May 2017
  • The root was used to help with digestion and provide relief for rheumatism.
    — Discover Magazine, 4 Apr. 2024
  • Some believe the bones, ground into a powder, can cure rheumatism and arthritis.
    — National Geographic, 29 Sep. 2016
  • An excess of yellow bile, for instance, caused rheumatism; too much black bile caused cancer.
    — Jack Feerick, Discover Magazine, 16 Dec. 2020
  • Tiger-bone wine is believed to cure rheumatism, weakness, or paralysis.
    — Jenni Marsh, CNN, 15 Aug. 2020
  • Nettle is said to have an analgesic effect, which is said to help with joint diseases such as rheumatism or osteoarthritis.
    — Katharina Walser, Glamour, 27 Nov. 2024
  • My mother’s rheumatism was troubling her, and Betsy stayed home to keep her company.
    — Literary Hub, 29 Apr. 2026
  • That paper suggests the Amazonians used the bite to treat rheumatism for centuries.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 14 July 2022
  • When rheumatism forced him to seek treatment in Seattle, best wishes were addressed to Young Viking.
    — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Dec. 2020
  • The slow-growing shrub has medicinal properties — its root can be used to treat rheumatism — and is used in dyes, varnish, lipstick and incense.
    — Tonya Alanez, Sun-Sentinel.com, 17 Aug. 2017
  • The resurgence in demand for tiger bone wine in particular, which is believed to cure rheumatism and impotence, has helped drive the success of these farms.
    — National Geographic, 1 Feb. 2016
  • What propelled his wanderings in later life is unknown—perhaps changing climates to treat his persistent rheumatism.
    — Richard Grant, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 June 2023
  • Hepburn almost died, suffering from jaundice, anemia, rheumatism, and edema.
    — Hadley Hall Meares, Vanity Fair, 15 May 2026
  • Down from the mountains, fur-trapping explorer Jim Bridger retired with his goiter and rheumatism in his farmhouse on the other side of the crick.
    — Darryl Levings, kansascity, 18 July 2017
  • Julia is married to an older, upstanding, deeply Catholic and closeted man named Michael, who is bedridden with rheumatism.
    — Mary Marge Locker, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2025
  • It has also been traditionally used in Ayurvedic medicine to treat a range of health issues like breathing problems, rheumatism, serious pain, and fatigue.
    — Korin Miller, SELF, 24 Sep. 2018
  • China has banned its sale since 1993; and demand for its use in traditional Chinese medicine (for fevers, rheumatism and gout) has fallen.
    — The Economist, 8 Aug. 2019
  • His doctors lied, describing Cleveland’s problem as rheumatism and two badly ulcerated teeth.
    — David Steinberg, BostonGlobe.com, 24 May 2018
  • Because of his war experiences, Metcalf became so crippled with rheumatism that his colleagues had to carry him upstairs to the county courtroom.
    — Mary Jane Brewer, cleveland.com, 9 Apr. 2018
  • One woman brought her son, who suffered from a chronic illness that doctors in the region hadn’t been able to identify; Shikankov quickly diagnosed the boy’s rheumatism.
    — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2020
  • The vegetable’s diuretic effects come from the amino acid Asparagine, and has been used to treat swelling, rheumatism, and premenstrual water retention.
    — Stephanie Feuer, Good Housekeeping, 5 Sep. 2017
  • Even so, some practitioners still use rhino horn to treat ailments including fever, rheumatism and gout, while applying tiger-bone products to relieve joint pains and boost male virility.
    — Chun Han Wong, WSJ, 30 Oct. 2018
  • Rhino horn is traditionally used to treat ailments including fever, rheumatism and gout, and tiger-bone products have been used for relieving joint pains and boosting male virility.
    — Chun Han Wong, WSJ, 12 Nov. 2018
  • One member, Yuri Yudin, turned back on January 27 because his rheumatism had flared up, and the knee and joint pain was too severe to continue.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 31 Mar. 2022
  • If inhaled, the organisms could end up in the lungs and cause a pneumonia called, variously, coccidioidomycosis or desert rheumatism or Valley fever.
    — Lisa Sanders, M.d., New York Times, 2 Nov. 2022
  • Several local spa facilities offer thermal cures for everything from skin conditions to rheumatism.
    — Elizabeth Heath, Travel + Leisure, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Haygarth pitted these rods against sham, wooden Perkins tractors that looked just the same as the 5-guinea ones on sale, and found that 4 of 5 patients with rheumatism reported that their pain improved.
    — Rosie Mestel, Discover Magazine, 19 May 2021
  • In fact, back in the 19th century, oil was an annoying by-product of brine wells drilled by salt prospectors; it was either discarded or bottled and hawked to gullible customers as a cure for rheumatism and sprains.
    — Mac Margolis, Discover Magazine, 17 Jan. 2011

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