tubercular
Example Sentences
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With the “Funeral March” at its center, LaFarge’s multifaceted “journey” covers everything from the tubercular composer’s relationship with the gender-bending author George Sand to the video game “Frederic: The Resurrection of Music.”
From New York Times
The world didn’t expect much from Edward Bellamy, a reclusive, tubercular writer who lived with his parents.
From New York Times
“The dying tubercular is pictured as made more beautiful and more soulful,” she wrote, whereas “the person dying of cancer is portrayed as robbed of all capacities of self-transcendence, humiliated by fear and agony.”
From Washington Post
She personally housed 600 Belgian orphans, organized workshops for unemployed seamstresses and opened a home for tubercular children.
From New York Times
In his chronicle of Ayoreo life, Lucas Bessire said he witnessed a "mosaic of violence", describing how many of the girls exchanged sex for money and "the pet parrots in one settlement imitated tubercular coughing".
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
