How to Use typhoid in a Sentence

typhoid

1 of 2 noun
  • That person won’t suffer measles or polio or typhoid, or a host of other conditions.
    — Literary Hub, 11 June 2026
  • At the time, society considered whiskey as a suitable medicine for cancer, typhoid, and diphtheria among other illnesses.
    — Maggie Menderski, Louisville Courier Journal, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Public fear and anger over cholera, yellow fever, typhus, typhoid, smallpox, and influenza repeatedly landed on the powerless.
    — David Blumenthal, STAT, 24 Mar. 2026
  • Disease—scurvy, typhoid, dysentery—was rampant among prisoners, but medical treatment was worse than inadequate.
    — Drew Gilpin Faust, The Atlantic, 8 Feb. 2026
  • The Chicago River was at one time an open sewer that spread cholera and typhoid in the 19th century, according to event organizers.
    — Melina Khan, USA Today, 22 Sep. 2025
  • The building assumed that role beginning in 1896, treating kids suffering from ailments such as typhoid, diphtheria, and scarlet fever.
    — Adam Harrington, CBS News, 22 Apr. 2026
  • Some of the countries with higher rates of typhoid include Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh, as well as places in Africa and Latin America.
    — Alice Oglethorpe, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Mar. 2025
  • Skin infections from chemicals and contaminated waste, tetanus and hepatitis from needle injuries, respiratory illnesses from toxic fumes, and diseases such as typhoid and cholera.
    — CNN Money, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Shots against seasonal flu, RSV, tetanus, diphtheria, and pertussis (Tdap), pneumococcal infections, hepatitis A and B, and typhoid have all been linked to lower risks.
    — Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 15 May 2026
  • Relatively remote regions with high mobility and porous borders can be ideal settings for viruses to spread unnoticed, especially for pathogens such as Ebola, whose early symptoms can resemble those of typhoid and malaria, also endemic to the region.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 19 May 2026
  • In 1949, the US Food and Drug Administration banned domestic production and subsequently the import of raw-milk cheeses aged for fewer than 60 days, after a typhoid outbreak in Canada was linked to young cheeses made with raw milk.
    — Olivia Potts, Longreads, 28 May 2026

typhoid

2 of 2 adjective
  • The boy had been seriously ill, probably from typhoid fever, for more than two weeks.
    — Thomas Mallon, The New Yorker, 13 Feb. 2017
  • The results of which didn’t look much different from typhoid fever, cholera and scarlet fever, some of the scourges of the era.
    — Rob Lowman, Orange County Register, 23 May 2017
  • The fear of cyclically recurring cholera, typhoid and yellow fever, which killed tens of thousands of city dwellers, was a key factor in baseball’s early growth.
    — Paul Dickson, WSJ, 2 Oct. 2020
  • When studying in Paris, Gerhard had examined the bodies of typhoid patients, both before and after death.
    — Timothy Kent Holliday, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Apr. 2020
  • Other potentially fatal illnesses were also linked to milk, including diphtheria, typhoid and scarlet fever.
    — New York Times, 27 Apr. 2021
  • Experts have identified only one remaining oral antibiotic — azithromycin — to combat it; one more genetic mutation could make typhoid untreatable in some areas.
    — Emily Baumgaertner, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2018
  • My current yellow card lists rabies boosters, shingles shots, flu vaccine, typhoid vaccine, pneumonia vaccine, diphtheria/tetanus/pertussis vaccine and yellow fever vaccine.
    — Catherine Watson, Star Tribune, 22 Mar. 2021
  • The mudslide has had a direct effect on Freetown’s water infrastructure, as residents lack access to clean drinking water and proper toilet facilities, which could lead to malaria, cholera, and typhoid outbreaks.
    — Ivie Ani, Teen Vogue, 22 Sep. 2017
  • At one point during Rachel’s often-rocky teaching career, when she was posted to a small, backwater Bulgarian town in the midst of a typhoid pandemic, her husband was accused of attempting to rape the rabbi’s daughter-in-law.
    — Sara Lipton, The New York Review of Books, 17 Nov. 2020
  • In the early 20th century, Mary Mallon (Typhoid Mary), an asymptomatic typhoid carrier who worked as a cook, infected >50 persons.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 15 Sep. 2020

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