How to Use gout in a Sentence

gout

noun
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  • White smoke and a gout of orange fiame shoot out the back in a stream of fire.
    — Richard Rapaport, WIRED, 1 Oct. 1995
  • If gout is just a matter of birth or chance, what then?
    — Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 13 Nov. 2020
  • The drug colchicine has been used for more than 2,000 years to treat the fiery joint-pain ailment called gout.
    — Ron Winslow, WSJ, 23 Sep. 2023
  • Gore comes not in gouts, or even buckets, but in rivers.
    — Tim Dowling, Newsweek, 27 Apr. 2017
  • In the last 15 years of his life, his gout attacks became longer and fiercer.
    — Philly.com, 8 Oct. 2017
  • But gout, the English disease, is nothing to joke about.
    — John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 16 May 2018
  • Warding off the joint pain of gout may be as easy as eating right, a new study suggests.
    — Healthday, chicagotribune.com, 12 May 2017
  • The most common affected joint is the big toe, and gout is seen more often in men.
    — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 26 Apr. 2021
  • This Series should play on a field of gout-wort, grommel and knotgrass.
    — John Hyduk, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2016
  • Bathing in, and drinking, the sulfurous waters of the hot springs, was held to be a cure for everything from nerves to gout.
    — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 18 July 2017
  • Uric acid boosts the risk of gout, a painful form of arthritis.7 Gout symptoms include painful, swollen joints that may appear red.
    — Health, 14 Feb. 2023
  • In this case, the dinosaur likely didn’t die of gout but died with it, which isn’t a deadly disease.
    — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Peas are a source of purines, which can increase the amount of uric acid in your blood and potentially lead to a gout flare-up.
    — Emily Abbate, GQ, 5 Mar. 2018
  • Tart cherry juice has been shown to reduce the risk of gout, a type of arthritis caused by uric acid crystals in the joint, by about 35%.
    — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 31 Jan. 2023
  • To rule out gout, your doctor can perform a joint fluid test.
    — Sara Gaynes Lev, SELF, 30 July 2021
  • Nexletol increases uric acid in the blood, which can cause gout and gallstones.
    — Nick Blackmer, Verywell Health, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Some old men, who know things like tides and the habits of fish, told me not to fret, that there was too much water out there to be killed by even such a gout of oil.
    — Southern Living, 1 May 2017
  • Some old men, who know things like tides and the habits of fish, told me not to fret, that there was too much water out there to be killed by even such a gout of oil.
    — Southern Living, 9 July 2012
  • Your aunt is in town from Idaho and your mom was supposed to give her a ride back to the airport, but her gout is acting up.
    — Chris Hachey, BGR, 14 Feb. 2022
  • The patients in the trial who took Nexletol had a higher incidence of gout than the placebo group.
    — Nick Blackmer, Verywell Health, 22 Mar. 2023
  • A century later, the male issue of the day, now the 2nd Earl of Dunraven, was in bed with gout and looking for a distraction.
    — Jo Rodgers, Vogue, 4 Apr. 2018
  • The person told police Bowman was researching colchicine, a drug used to treat gout, the complaint said.
    — Antonio Planas, NBC News, 25 Oct. 2023
  • In any other country, this much feasting would have killed us – or at least induced gout.
    — The Healthyish Team, Bon Appetit, 10 July 2017
  • By 1792 he was hobbled with gout, recurring malaria and a lead ball in his leg from the Yorktown campaign.
    — Kathleen Duval, WSJ, 15 May 2018
  • Betty had not been diagnosed with gout, and none of her doctors had prescribed her colchicine.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 27 Oct. 2023
  • Febles, who joined the coaching staff last season, has been dealing with bone spurs since his playing career, then came down with a case of gout.
    — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 18 June 2019
  • If a pitcher was breathing without too much effort, and wasn’t troubled by gout or lesions, the Twins would take a chance on him.
    — Tom Powers, Twin Cities, 16 June 2017
  • True to its source material and its shepherds, The Boys enters not with a whimper, or even a bang, but with a gout of viscera.
    — Peter Rubin, WIRED, 26 July 2019
  • Her medical records did not show she was diagnosed with gout or HLH.
    — Nicole Acosta, Peoplemag, 8 Jan. 2024
  • That means no company ever submitted a clinical trial to the FDA to get the drug approved for the treatment of gout.
    — Peter Ubel, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024

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