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

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

Then the beloved “Tombstone,” in which he once again went deep Method on the tubercular dentist, Doc Holliday, sweaty and yellow, gasping for breath through his puffs on his cigarette.

From New York Times • May 6, 2020

He travels the world showing and filming urban street commotion, a slow-motion falling cat and — tenderly but creepily — the very last breaths of his own tubercular sister, Odette, in a Paris sanitarium.

From Washington Post • Jun. 10, 2019

The cancerous and tubercular rats and mice leaped about their cages.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright