How to Use tuberculosis in a Sentence

tuberculosis

noun
  • Month after month, a few guinea pigs came down with tuberculosis.
    — Megan Molteni, Wired, 13 May 2021
  • Malaria and tuberculosis, which can cause fever and bloody coughs, are prevalent in the area too.
    — Alice Park, Time, 2 July 2026
  • Texas has long been one of four states that account for half of the tuberculosis cases in the country.
    — Peggy O’Hare, San Antonio Express-News, 23 Mar. 2022
  • Most of them are said to have died of consumption, the disease now known as tuberculosis.
    — NBC news, 16 Nov. 2022
  • Learn more on the Bovine tuberculosis page.
    — Jalen Williams, Freep.com, 13 Nov. 2025
  • This makes a perfect breeding ground for the spread of malaria, cholera and tuberculosis.
    — Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 25 Nov. 2024
  • There have also been outbreaks of both tuberculosis and measles.
    — Julia Ainsley, NBC news, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Papua New Guinea has one of the world’s highest rates of tuberculosis.
    — Rachel Pannett, WSJ, 12 Nov. 2018
  • Parts of the plant can be used as an expectorant, and the leaves were once used for treating tuberculosis.
    — Latria Graham, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Dec. 2022
  • Khan was highly sought after around the state and the country as an expert on tuberculosis.
    — Howard Koplowitz | [email protected], al, 21 June 2022
  • Not only is the light spooky, but the three-hour tour traverses large rooms where the tuberculosis clinic was housed.
    — Graham Averill, Outside, 28 Oct. 2025
  • At first, local leaders thought tuberculosis may have been driving the deaths.
    — Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN Money, 6 June 2026
  • His father, who died of tuberculosis when Yearwood was a young child, worked as a railroad porter.
    — Thomas Farragher, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Dec. 2019
  • For more on these adorable heroes—which are also being trained to sniff out tuberculosis in humans—check out this week’s episode.
    — Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Samuel Prince was a 40-year-old cook, who succumbed to tuberculosis.
    — Alina Selyukh, NPR, 31 May 2025
  • For a while, a nurse who worked in the tuberculosis program would ride along to give penicillin shots on a volunteer basis.
    — Talia Herman, ProPublica, 1 Nov. 2021
  • It is routinely done in the US for both measles and tuberculosis.
    — Claire Gillespie, Health.com, 24 Apr. 2020
  • For tuberculosis and measles, which are spread through very tiny droplets, face masks may not be helpful because the droplets can reach through the gauze or slip in around the mask.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 24 Jan. 2020
  • Alaska has long had one of the highest rates of tuberculosis infection in the country.
    — Annie Berman, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Nov. 2021
  • William followed some years after due to tuberculosis.
    — Stephanie Sengwe, PEOPLE, 25 Oct. 2025
  • In the late 1800s, these forests were a haven for tuberculosis patients seeking the cool, fresh air.
    — Aubrey Hillman, The Conversation, 8 Aug. 2025
  • McBride said that while causes of death varied among the students, tuberculosis was the single largest killer.
    — NBC news, 16 Nov. 2022
  • A couple of the tuberculosis-patients’ cabins still stand inside the cave.
    — Graham Averill, Outside, 28 Oct. 2025
  • An anonymous prison source has denied to Russian state media that there is an outbreak of tuberculosis in the camp.
    — Patrick Reevell, ABC News, 7 Apr. 2021
  • Soubirous died of tuberculosis at age 35 while praying the rosary and, like many Catholics, was buried with a rosary entwined in her hands.
    — Rafael Alvarez, CNN, 27 Dec. 2020
  • It's been used to track smallpox, tuberculosis, syphilis, measles and HIV.
    — Briana Rice, Cincinnati.com, 3 June 2020
  • When Daisy was three and a half, her father died of tuberculosis, and her mother took over management of the college.
    — Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2022
  • At least 1,200 people with tuberculosis are thought to have fled Ukraine.
    — New York Times, 26 Mar. 2022
  • Kim Byung-rok survived tuberculosis as a young man but in his work polishing and mending shoes the debris proved to be too much for his lungs.
    — Hyung-Jin Kim, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Apr. 2020
  • Latent tuberculosis means a person is not sick yet and can prevent future illness through treatment.
    — Jemma Stephenson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Apr. 2026

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