How to Use typhus in a Sentence

typhus

noun
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  • Last year, there was an outbreak of typhus in the squalor near skid row.
    — oregonlive, 1 Mar. 2020
  • Veil’s mother died of typhus at the Bergen-Belsen camp.
    — Washington Post, 30 June 2017
  • Both the First and the Second World Wars produced typhus epidemics.
    — Jerome Groopman, The New Yorker, 29 Mar. 2021
  • That same day, the Nazis took steps to clear the camp of prisoners infected with typhus.
    — National Geographic, 14 Jan. 2020
  • Women who had the telltale typhus spots were hustled off to the gas chambers.
    — National Geographic, 14 Jan. 2020
  • Sick with typhus, she was sent to Sweden to recover, and then went to Belgium to live with an aunt.
    — John Wilkens, sandiegouniontribune.com, 18 Apr. 2018
  • At the time of his deliverance, Repp was sick with typhus and weighed 69 pounds, and most of his family was no longer alive.
    — Robert Wilonsky, Dallas News, 14 Jan. 2020
  • At the least, the air would have been less toxic, and there might have been lower mortality rates from scurvy, dysentery and typhus.
    — A. Roger Ekirch, WSJ, 22 Aug. 2017
  • Frank died of typhus in early 1945 at Bergen-Belsen, a Nazi concentration camp.
    — Zach Kyle and Sven Berg, idahostatesman, 11 May 2017
  • When Jane is ten or eleven, typhus runs rampant at Lowood, the charity school to which she has been consigned by her aunt, who despises her.
    — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2020
  • For the 10-day trip to Kenya, the family had to be immunized for yellow fever, typhus and malaria and cover all their own expenses.
    — Linda Gandee/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 31 Dec. 2017
  • The hope was that typhus, malnutrition and starvation would relieve the Nazis of the necessity of face-to-face murder.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2021
  • That same month, health officials warned the public of a typhus outbreak in downtown Los Angeles.
    — Bill Quirk, The Mercury News, 24 July 2019
  • One city employee was diagnosed with typhus, a disease that can be spread by rodents.
    — Mark Puente, latimes.com, 28 June 2019
  • They are known to be reservoirs for such threats to humans as hantavirus, typhus and the bacterium responsible for bubonic plague.
    — Mark Johnson, jsonline.com, 2 Nov. 2017
  • But whereas body lice can spread diseases, including epidemic typhus, trench fever and even the plague, head lice have never been blamed for any such outbreak.
    — Karen Weintraub, Scientific American, 29 May 2017
  • During her first winter at Scutari, 4,077 soldiers died—ten times more from typhus, cholera, typhoid fever and dysentery than from battle wounds.
    — Tina Hillier, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Feb. 2020
  • Or for that matter the Gauls, the Visigoths and the Normans, or the cruel nobles or reactionary popes who governed the city so badly, or the plagues, measles, typhus, malaria and syphilis that brought Rome low at various points.
    — Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 1 May 2020
  • Frank, whose wartime diary became one of the most famous pieces of Holocaust documentation, died in March 1945 during a typhus epidemic at the camp.
    — Neil Genzlinger, New York Times, 13 June 2018
  • But the most painful and powerful memories were of her mother Yvonne, her lifelong inspiration, dying slowly of typhus in Belsen after a 45-mile death march at the war’s end.
    — The Economist, 5 July 2017
  • Pilecki survived typhus and many, many random selections for killing.
    — Neal Bascomb, WSJ, 12 July 2019
  • Tesch & Stabenow then oversaw the shipping of the product and equipment to SS and Wehrmacht barracks, instructing the personnel about use on the proper enemy: lice, the main carriers of typhus.
    — Yuliya Komska, Smithsonian, 10 Oct. 2017
  • Rats have been in the news a lot lately, with infestations reported at Los Angeles City Hall and an outbreak of typhus, which can be transmitted to humans by fleas that live on rats.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 July 2019
  • As more than 120 of their relatives were shipped to the Treblinka death camp, the family was spared because of a set of unusual circumstances, including a typhus outbreak.
    — Cnaan Liphshiz, sun-sentinel.com, 9 July 2019
  • Cholera, typhus, typhoid fever all mean nothing to most Americans today, but President Lincoln’s son was killed by typhoid fever.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Sep. 2019
  • Or they were infected with typhus, with terrible results.
    — National Geographic, 26 Feb. 2017
  • Testing for typhus can take weeks, so treatment is usually started before results are available.
    — Lauren Caruba, ExpressNews.com, 10 Aug. 2019
  • Just four months before his death from tuberculosis, and while on his way to Italy to attempt to recover from that disease, Keats ended up quarantined on a ship during an outbreak of typhus.
    — Dana Snitzky, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
  • In Southern California, fleas are known for infecting people with typhus fever.
    — Kurt Snibbe, Orange County Register, 27 Apr. 2017
  • Epidemic typhus, however, can be spread from person-to-person.
    — Sarah Klein, Health.com, 31 Oct. 2019

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