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

All except for Ratso, a tubercular, disabled con man.

From Washington Post • Jun. 16, 2022

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

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

I cover my mouth with my napkin and cough and cough like some tubercular old uncle.

From "All The Bright Places" by Jennifer Niven