TB

in a sentence

After graduation she accepts a position, at the urging of her father's friends, as a nurse in a TB sanatorium in Switzerland.  (source) Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl, 1952

We'd spend the week after that in Moscow on tb business, with a stop in Paris en route.  (source) Tracy Kidder, Mountains Beyond Mountains, 2003

At one Illinois mental hospital, new patients were dosed with milk from cows infected with tuberculosis, in the belief that only the undesirable would perish.†  (source) Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken, 2010

Tb so sorry, Harry, I didn'd bean do —' 'It doesn't matter!'†  (source) J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, 2003

You'll want to see what you people have done to her with your damn tuberculosis.†  (source) Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes, 1996

TB, dysentery, famine, crime.†  (source) Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns, 2007

The following year, his daughter, Fanny, died from tuberculosis.†  (source) James L. Swanson, Chasing Lincoln's Killer, 2009

He was like a man with advanced TB pretending to have a cold.†  (source) Ian McEwan, Atonement, 2001

But he contracted a tuberculosis of the spine when he was about six, when his parents were up in Aswan —the nanny didn't recognize how serious it was, he was taken to the hospital too late—he was a very bright boy, so I understand, personable too, but old Mr. Blackwell wasn't a man tolerant of weakness or infirmity.†  (source) Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch, 2013

If the TB test shows positive, a child can be treated or isolated.†  (source) Stephen King, Carrie, 1974

I've seen them all born alive, and not one lost to smallpox or tuberculosis.†  (source) Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible, 1998

I don't care if their great-greatgrandfather died of TB.†  (source) Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior, 1975

There was no way of reaching him when his mother, Chella, died of tuberculosis.†  (source) Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things, 1997