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
A serious accident led to a destroyed kidney, followed by a tubercular condition in which he coughed up blood.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 2, 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
The cancerous and tubercular rats and mice leaped about their cages.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
