ASTHMA in a Sentence

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11 example sentences for ASTHMA, such as:

1. Hospital admissions for asthma attacks have doubled.
2. Attacks of asthma decrease in frequency through early adult life.
3. Her excitement brought on an attack of asthma, to which she was subject.
4. Richard's recurrent asthma attacks disturbed us and we consulted a physician.
5. The report ascribes the rise in childhood asthma to the increase in pollution.

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 Meanings and Examples of ASTHMA
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
asthma
 n.  chronic respiratory disease, often arising from allergies
Classic Sentence:
1  Oh yes, sir, he is at home,' said Minnie; 'the weather don't suit his asthma out of doors.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 21. LITTLE EM'LY
2  He was as radiant, as if his chair, his asthma, and the failure of his limbs, were the various branches of a great invention for enhancing the luxury of a pipe.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 51. THE BEGINNING OF A LONGER JOURNEY
3  Her excitement brought on an attack of asthma, to which she was subject.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 23
4  The conventionary began to pant; the asthma of the agony which is mingled with the last breaths interrupted his voice; still, there was a perfect lucidity of soul in his eyes.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT
5  She lost sight of him in two minutes, and returned breathless, three-quarters choked with asthma, and furious.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER V—DIVRS CLAPS OF THUNDER FALL ON MA'AM BOUGON
Example Sentence:
1  Indoor air pollution may have contributed to the increase in asthma rates since the 1980s.
2  Richard's recurrent asthma attacks disturbed us and we consulted a physician.
3  It is odorless, colorless, tasteless, does not cause cancer, does not cause asthma.
4  Attacks of asthma decrease in frequency through early adult life.
5  Hospital admissions for asthma attacks have doubled.
6  The report ascribes the rise in childhood asthma to the increase in pollution.