emphysemain a sentence
- There was no Papaw, and Mamaw—a longtime smoker with the emphysema to prove it—seemed too frail and exhausted to care for a fourteen-year-old boy.† (source)
- Then maybe you'd quit smoking — you're a one-woman emphysema factory, plus you're single-handedly supporting the tobacco companies.† (source)
- The piece says she died after a lengthy battle with emphysema but makes no mention of a surviving spouse or children.† (source)
- Tad began to gasp again — a harsh, rattling sound, like the breathing of an old man with emphysema.† (source)
- Not Scott, who had a family history of emphysema.† (source)
- I heard that her mom died of lung cancer or emphysema or something.† (source)
- She had diabetes and, as a lifelong smoker, the beginnings of emphysema, though again, neither of these conditions seemed life-threatening at present, and neither adequately explained what had happened.† (source)
- He had health problems from emphysema and a childhood bout with polio, but I had never anticipated him actually dying.† (source)
- It was a fine city in which to develop emphysema or lung cancer, and it was a hated city.† (source)
- He thought that perhaps this was her way of breathing, or that she had emphysema or belonged to a Hindu cult.† (source)
- The humid climate is not good for her emphysema.
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- At the time of the interview, forty or fifty years later, she was dying of emphysema.† (source)
- Her father had already retired and had early-stage emphysema.† (source)
- Then she chuckled quietly to herself Regardless of how she felt, whether her emphysema made it difficult to breathe or her hip hurt so badly that she could barely walk, she never turned down an opportunity to "spend time with those babies," as she put it.† (source)
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