Example sentences for: meningitis

How can you use “meningitis” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • A way of predicting these meningitis epidemics could be enormously useful.

  • Although in nearly constant physical pain--he had contracted meningitis when he was five, and the headaches continued for the rest of his life--and mental anguish, he functioned reasonably well until the age of 41, when a number of psychotic incidents caused him to be confined in a psychiatric hospital.

  • Meningococcal meningitis in western Africa shows recurrent seasonal patterns every year.

  • What the authors found was that over the years 1994–2002, the week of the onset of the yearly meningitis epidemic came at around the same time as the peak of one measure of the wind—the sixth week of the year.

  • Here was a boy growing up in Punjab during the fall of the Raj and the Partition, a boy who had been blinded by meningitis at the age of 3, roller-skating through the back streets of Lahore as Sikhs slaughtered Hindus and Hindus slaughtered Muslims and civilization was collapsing and then, decades later, having made his way from India to an Arkansas school for the blind to Balliol College, Oxford, to The New Yorker , re-creating the whole thing in Proustian detail and better-than-Proustian prose ...


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