PNEUMONIA in a Sentence

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13 example sentences for PNEUMONIA, such as:

1. The doctor diagnosed the illness as pneumonia.
2. 'That pneumonia took a lot out of me,' he said.
3. And if it ain't measles and pneumonia, it's your bowels.
4. He was indebted to her for nursing him through pneumonia.
5. Carol was volunteer nurse when Mrs. Champ Perry suddenly died of pneumonia.

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 Meanings and Examples of PNEUMONIA
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
pneumonia
 n.  inflammation of the lungs
Classic Sentence:
1  And if it ain't measles and pneumonia, it's your bowels.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
2  He had died ignominiously and swiftly of pneumonia, following measles, without ever having gotten any closer to the Yankees than the camp in South Carolina.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
3  Food was scanty, one blanket for three men, and the ravages of smallpox, pneumonia and typhoid gave the place the name of a pest-house.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
4  Moreover, many of them were dying, dying swiftly, silently, having little strength left to combat the blood poisoning, gangrene, typhoid and pneumonia which had set in before they could reach Atlanta and a doctor.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
5  Will was acutely ill with pneumonia and when the girls put him to bed, they feared he would soon join the boy in the burying ground.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
6  Carol was volunteer nurse when Mrs. Champ Perry suddenly died of pneumonia.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
7  His iron constitution was somewhat broken by mountain pneumonia, and he had drifted back to live in a milder country for a while.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: II
8  There came pneumonia and grippe, stalking among them, seeking for weakened constitutions; there was the annual harvest of those whom tuberculosis had been dragging down.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
9  'That pneumonia took a lot out of me,' he said.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
Example Sentence:
1  One in 15 children can develop pneumonia and one in a thousand can develop encephalitis which is a swelling of the brain.
2  He was indebted to her for nursing him through pneumonia.
3  The young mother was prostrate with grief at her baby's death from pneumonia.
4  The doctor diagnosed the illness as pneumonia.