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
The site of the spectacular federal courthouse on the Arroyo Seco in Pasadena was originally a boarding house built in 1882 by Emma Bangs, who had brought her tubercular daughter west.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2022
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
