black lung disease
Example Sentences
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He still struggles with black lung disease, she said, and joint pain from time spent crawling underground.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 7, 2024
A daughter, sister and wife of miners, she now helps lead an association to support those with black lung disease.
From New York Times • Oct. 23, 2022
Her father, who eventually died of black lung disease, worked in the Van Lear mines.
From Washington Post • Oct. 4, 2022
Stardom seemed unlikely for Lynn as she grew up in a coal-rich area of Kentucky known as Butcher Holler, where her miner father died of black lung disease at age 52.
From Reuters • Oct. 4, 2022
“Don’t I wish. At this point, I’m getting black lung disease from inhaling too many construction paper molecules.”
From "Linked" by Gordon Korman
