tubercular
Example Sentences
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Her tubercular pale skin and flushed cheeks contributed to her allure.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026
He had lost an older brother, Harold, to tuberculosis at age 24, and a younger brother, Arthur, to tubercular encephalitis at age 7, according to the Nixon library.
From Washington Post • Dec. 17, 2022
Garner, a tubercular local railroad worker “snatched from the grave by radium” at the British-American Medical Institute at 859 South Figueroa, where, restored to health, he went to work operating the institute’s “electro-ozo-viro-radium treatment machine.”
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 28, 2021
I fake a coughing fit and hack like a tubercular Victorian, all over those two gorgeous, declarative lines.
From The Guardian • Mar. 30, 2019
I cover my mouth with my napkin and cough and cough like some tubercular old uncle.
From "All The Bright Places" by Jennifer Niven
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
