How to Use venereal disease in a Sentence

venereal disease

noun
Definition of venereal diseasenext
  • The pills were supposed to protect her from venereal disease.
    — Washington Post, 11 Aug. 2021
  • Not long after, the major gave him a lecture on venereal disease.
    — Michael M. Phillips, WSJ, 9 Nov. 2018
  • At the time, the public was anxious about the spread of venereal disease in public facilities.
    — Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 4 June 2022
  • The girl contracted a venereal disease from the assault, the documents state.
    — Madeline Mitchell, Cincinnati.com, 26 Feb. 2020
  • And also by reading public health records about the spread of venereal disease and how people were getting abortions back then.
    — Lizzie O'Leary, The Atlantic, 15 June 2019
  • Anderson then launched into a lecture on the seven danger signs of venereal disease.
    — David Jesse, USA TODAY, 28 Feb. 2020
  • As early 1778, Captain James Cook and his crew landed on the island of Ni‘ihau, spreading an unknown venereal disease across the archipelago.
    — Kathleen M. Wong, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Mar. 2022
  • Cut off from their families and the company of women, migrant workers suffer rates of venereal disease far higher than the national norms.
    — Joel Kotkin, National Review, 25 July 2019
  • In circulars distributed to school boards, public health crusaders like Charles V. Chapin implored teachers to instruct children on the dangers of venereal disease and the virtues of toothbrushing.
    — John Last, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 May 2022
  • Bustling prostitution industries sprang up around army bases and seaports, and soon the U.S. Navy was facing a full-on epidemic of venereal disease, Gordon explains.
    — Carolyn Todd, Allure, 12 July 2018
  • The study recruited hundreds of Black men with syphilis who were told they’d be treated for the venereal disease; instead, researchers gave them placebos and monitored the disease’s deadly progression.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 22 May 2021
  • But when Uncle Sam realized that fully one-quarter of all troops were unfit for service because of venereal disease, drug addiction or alcoholism, the government cracked down.
    — Gary Kamiya, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Oct. 2022
  • The Shuar notoriously used infusions of guayusa to purify themselves before shrinking the heads of their slain enemies; the early Jesuits propagated the plant as a cure for venereal disease.
    — Wade Davis, Rolling Stone, 17 Dec. 2022
  • Subjected to dreadful treatment by both owners and customers, most of them contracted venereal diseases and were physically and mentally broken within a few years.
    — Gary Kamiya, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Jan. 2018
  • The sharp decline in population wasn't just due to violent deaths, but also diseases brought by the Europeans, including the common cold, flu, measles, venereal diseases, tuberculosis and smallpox.
    — Aaron Smith, CNN, 25 May 2018
  • Long believed to be extinct, a single living specimen was discovered in the 1980s and quickly became a destination for both curious tourists and locals seeking it out as a folk remedy for hangovers and venereal disease.
    — Willy Blackmore, latimes.com, 6 Apr. 2018
  • These colorful posters do some very limited Point-A-to-Point-B reasoning in attributing the transmission of venereal disease strictly to women and assuming that soldiers are innocent victims.
    — Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 9 Dec. 2011
  • In a fashion analogous to that of the original VD, venereal disease, viral deception is contagious and socially transmitted.
    — Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Scientific American, 18 Mar. 2021
  • For many in the Black community, the Tuskegee syphilis study - a secret experiment conducted by the U.S. government to study the deadly venereal disease without treatment - looms especially large in the collective memory, experts said.
    — William Wan, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Nov. 2020
  • Here also are the war’s venereal diseases, prostitutes, drug addicts, alcoholics, shirking cowards, incompetent bureaucrats and those seeking only to profit from the conflict.
    — Glenn David Brasher, Smithsonian, 19 Apr. 2017
  • Government documents say the purpose was to keep soldiers from raping women and triggering anti-Japan sentiment, as well as preventing venereal disease and Chinese espionage.
    — Mari Yamaguchi, The Seattle Times, 21 Nov. 2018
  • Beyond the bedside, the speculum was an instrument of surveillance, deployed by police to detain prostitutes suspected of carrying venereal disease, according to Moscucci.
    — Daniela Blei, The Atlantic, 8 Mar. 2018
  • In one of her most significant social campaigns, Butler worked to repeal the Contagious Diseases Acts, which allowed law enforcement officials to detain women believed to be prostitutes and forcibly examine them for evidence of venereal disease.
    — Isis Davis-Marks, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Mar. 2021
  • Ibsen gave us, for instance, the now-classic tale of a 19th-century housewife, suffocating under the alienating control of a domineering husband, and another about a Norwegian household thrown into turmoil by venereal disease.
    — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 23 Nov. 2022
  • Kelly is charged with violating the statute by transporting a victim interstate and violating New York law by recklessly endangering the victim and exposing her to infectious venereal diseases.
    — Danny Cevallos, NBC News, 14 July 2019
  • Jenkins’s degradation by her duplicitous husband, then her impending illness and death by venereal disease, represented a low point in female victimhood, perfectly timed for the burgeoning #MeToo movement.
    — Armond White, National Review, 6 July 2022
  • The bulls tested positive for trichomoniasis, or Trich, a venereal disease caused by a protozoa and spread between cattle during breeding, the veterinarian’s office reported Thursday.
    — Sean P. Means, The Salt Lake Tribune, 12 May 2022
  • A Little Life has no historical or sociological anchoring, no interest in the structures that perpetuate clerical predation or stigmatize queerness and venereal disease, no heft to it all.
    — Vulture, 21 Oct. 2022
  • Prosecutors in Brooklyn allege that Kelly knowingly infected women with herpes, in violation of public health laws that require people who have an infectious venereal disease to notify their partners about their diagnosis.
    — Sonia Moghe, CNN, 22 Aug. 2021
  • Adler Ibsen's dour, portentous 1881 drama Ghosts tackles oppressive conservative morality, serial marital infidelity, venereal disease, mercy killing, and incest.
    — Chicago Reader, 4 Oct. 2017

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