DISEASE in a Sentence

Learn DISEASE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
298 example sentences for DISEASE, such as:
1. There are various types of the disease.
2. No one knew how to treat this dreaded disease.
3. My doctor takes a holistic approach to disease.
4. I am immune from the disease, for I had it once.
5. The doctor is often more to be feared than the disease.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of DISEASE
disease
 n.  an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning
Classic Sentence: (88 in 6 pages)
1  Under her shapeless dress her body kept its limp immobility, and her dark eyes had the bright witch-like stare that disease of the spine sometimes gives.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
2  When your mother took to her bed she bade me write you that under no condition were you to come home and expose yourself and Wade to the disease.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
3  Scarlett had seen enough typhoid in the Atlanta hospital to know what a week meant in that dread disease.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
4  The episode of Nettie Crane's timely rescue from disease had been one of the most satisfying incidents of her connection with Gerty's charitable work.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 13
5  Be sure of this, O young ambition, all mortal greatness is but disease.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 16. The Ship.
6  One was the neighbors saw the fellows here, another was, I was afraid I had contracted a loathsome disease, and still another was that I feared I might give birth to a Negro baby.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In III
7  which have been inspected and found to be free from disease.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
8  There were those who worked in the chilling rooms, and whose special disease was rheumatism; the time limit that a man could work in the chilling rooms was said to be five years.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
9  They had been overworked and underfed so long, and finally some disease had laid them on their backs; or they had cut themselves, and had blood poisoning, or met with some other accident.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12
10  Some time ago, Elzbieta was told, a Chicago billionaire had paid a fortune to bring a great European surgeon over to cure his little daughter of the same disease from which Kristoforas had suffered.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
11  In the face of handicaps such as these the packers counted themselves lucky if they could kill off the cattle that had been crippled in transit and the hogs that had developed disease.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 26
12  If all the hogs in this carload were not killed at once, they would soon be down with the dread disease, and there would be nothing to do but make them into lard.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 26
13  And bear in mind also that this monstrous disease affects not merely the idlers and their menials, its poison penetrates the whole social body.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 31
14  Thy child," returned Duncan, gravely; "the disease has gone out of her; it is shut up in the rocks.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 25
15  She might have been sixty, but was older than that by hard work and disease, was partially blind, and somewhat crippled with rheumatism.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  The doctor was able to treat the disease although he could not put his finger on the exact cause.
2  The purpose of the research is to try and and find out more about the causes of the disease.
3  The doctor was able to treat the disease although he could not lay his finger on the exact cause.
4  I am immune from the disease, for I had it once.
5  My doctor takes a holistic approach to disease.
6  In her paper she goes on to argue that scientists do not yet know enough about the nature of the disease.
7  The author uses disease as a metaphor for the corruption in society.
8  The doctor is often more to be feared than the disease.
9  It would help to end illiteracy and disease, but it would also dislocate a traditional way of life.
10  No one knew how to treat this dreaded disease.
11  The disease is totally unresponsive to conventional treatment.
12  The new drug has great significance for the treatment of the disease.
13  The smoker has been labouring under lung disease for many years.
14  There are various types of the disease.
15  Education is the only weapon to fight the spread of the disease.