How to Use untreatable in a Sentence

untreatable

adjective
  • There were doctors there who had stopped thinking of her kind of cancer as untreatable.
    — John Jeremiah Sullivan, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2019
  • At the same time, the worst possible side effect of these treatments is death; untreatable leukemia ends the same way.
    — Charles Graeber, WIRED, 25 July 2019
  • In the worst case, the water would be untreatable, forcing the cities to use alternate supplies for a time.
    — New York Times, 24 June 2021
  • His condition was, at the time, untreatable; he was futilely instructed to work no more than four hours a day.
    — Edward Rothstein, WSJ, 6 Sep. 2022
  • Children with illnesses that would have been untreatable only years ago, are now surviving.
    — Suzanne King, Kansas City Star, 2 May 2026
  • For patients facing diseases once considered untreatable, that chapter cannot come soon enough.
    — William A. Haseltine, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Every headache was a brain tumor; every ache was cancer; every rash was something untreatable and fatal.
    — Molly Jong-Fas, Vogue, 26 Aug. 2021
  • For parents of children with rare, untreatable conditions, easy answers are difficult to come by.
    — Joe and Courtney Dion, STAT, 10 June 2024
  • This has raised concerns of the development of more super bugs that may be untreatable with current medications.
    — Jason Lemon, ajc, 28 Nov. 2017
  • That, Shaul hopes, will inhibit the progression of treatable low-grade tumors to more advanced, untreatable stages.
    — Larry Luxner, sun-sentinel.com, 18 Nov. 2020
  • The canines convened in honor of Spencer, who died two months ago after being diagnosed with untreatable cancer.
    — Katie McInerney, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Apr. 2023
  • After examining Bryant, the doctor declares that his cancer has spread to his liver and is untreatable.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2025
  • For some patients, a single dose erases any trace of aggressive, otherwise untreatable cancer.
    — Damian Garde, STAT, 26 Dec. 2019
  • Kymera wants to use the body’s innate ability to break down and recycle proteins and redirect it to target untreatable diseases.
    — Jonathan Saltzman, BostonGlobe.com, 15 July 2019
  • This could lead to untreatable infections that spread through human, animal, and plant populations.
    — Liyam Chitayat, Foreign Affairs, 28 Aug. 2025
  • These lessons learned provide a model for finding treatments for the thousands of currently untreatable diseases and the millions of people who live with them.
    — George Vradenburg, STAT, 29 May 2021
  • The ultimate fear is that eventually, gonorrhea could prove wholly untreatable, in at least some people.
    — Benjamin Ryan, NBC News, 3 Nov. 2023
  • The new pet comes just a few months after Queen Camilla's rescue dog Beth died, being put down due to having an untreatable tumor.
    — Stephanie Petit, People.com, 25 Feb. 2025
  • This video, produced by the CDC, outlines the dangers out untreatable gonorrhea.
    — Lauren Castle, azcentral, 6 Apr. 2018
  • The jury is still out on how gene therapies, which potentially offer one-time cures for previously untreatable diseases, should be priced.
    — Denise Roland, WSJ, 19 Nov. 2018
  • This is an excellent example of why tree root zones should be mulched or planted with groundcovers (so nothing needs mowing) to avoid untreatable damage and trip hazards.
    — Miri Talabac, Baltimore Sun, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Despite being left with a 13-inch scar on her stomach, Grunewald's cancer returned as small tumors in her liver and was untreatable through surgery.
    — Chris Chavez, SI.com, 11 June 2019
  • Spencer, a 13-year-old who in recent years became a beloved figure on the race route, was recently diagnosed with untreatable liver cancer.
    — Kate Armanini, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Jan. 2023
  • What the Becks didn’t know was that their daughter was born with a rare genetic defect—an incurable, untreatable mutation that caused her death within days.
    — Daniella Gray, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2025
  • And ones that are categorized as having untreatable conditions like cancer, are released regardless of their level of crime.
    — Hollie McKay, Fox News, 12 June 2018
  • Our father, Paul Nichols, a practicing physician, died in 1944 at age forty-four of acute leukemia, untreatable at that time.
    — Simon Callow, The New York Review of Books, 24 Sep. 2020
  • Every Cure works to find new uses for existing drugs, with the goal of finding treatments for diseases that were previously untreatable.
    — Brad Quick, CNBC, 27 Mar. 2026
  • The pig disease — a highly contagious and untreatable outbreak that is not fatal to humans but can be spread by us — has now extended swiftly out of China.
    — Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 17 Dec. 2019
  • Then, Arends, 64, told the chamber that a doctor last month had diagnosed him with an untreatable, terminal condition.
    — Andrea Salcedo, Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2020
  • The damage is permanent and untreatable given the brain’s limited ability to repair itself.
    — Michael J. Coren, Quartz, 16 June 2022

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