How to Use diseased in a Sentence

diseased

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  • Summary Heart valve replacement is a treatment option for a diseased or damaged valve.
    — Colleen Doherty, Verywell Health, 30 Sep. 2024
  • Remove any diseased fruit from the tree and the ground beneath the tree.
    — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 19 Feb. 2024
  • Rather than compost the old, diseased plants, put them in the green waste.
    — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Nov. 2020
  • The caveat to that statement is, there are still very few of them even in very old and very diseased tissue.
    — Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 27 July 2022
  • The ones that do attend look slightly used and very diseased.
    — Bob Larsen, SPIN, 12 Feb. 2022
  • The nanotubes are made of a superfine membrane that could carry drugs to diseased parts of the body.
    — Breanna Draxler, Discover Magazine, 13 Dec. 2013
  • People thought the work itself was diseased and were burning it and throwing it on the street.
    — Max McCormack, Harper's BAZAAR, 1 June 2023
  • Those trees, however, turned out to be diseased and were burned.
    — John Muyskens, Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2023
  • Just remove the weak and diseased branches as well as those that point to the center or rub against others.
    — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Feb. 2024
  • In people with cancer, that attack is aimed at the diseased cells.
    — Markham Heid, TIME, 27 Dec. 2023
  • Toss it all in your compost pile (except for diseased plants).
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, House Beautiful, 17 June 2020
  • If a diseased flower falls on the soil, remove it along with the surrounding soil and lay down some new soil.
    — Steve Bender, Southern Living, 28 Jan. 2024
  • Gary Oldman plays Lamb as a cynic with a diseased heart of something that is not quite gold.
    — Stephen Rodrick, Variety, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Crews are also slated to remove dead and diseased trees and plant more than 40 new trees.
    — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Nov. 2023
  • It should be noted that dead, diseased, or damaged branches can be removed at any time of the year to protect the health of the plant.
    — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 12 Sep. 2024
  • Brush and trees were removed from the site, but Laney said that trees that were removed were dead, diseased or non-native species.
    — Megan Rodriguez, San Antonio Express-News, 2 May 2022
  • Broken or diseased branches, on the other hand, should be removed promptly at any time of the year.
    — Nadia Hassani, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 June 2024
  • The regimen destroys many of the diseased cells and weakens the immune system to keep the body from rejecting the donor cells.
    — Wunmi Bakare, Essence, 19 June 2021
  • Some 34 trees, most of them dead or diseased, were removed in January.
    — Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 13 May 2024
  • Once the tree is 3-4 feet high and after any lemons have ripened, prune out any dead or diseased branches and remove any stems that aren’t strong enough to hold fruit.
    — oregonlive, 11 June 2023
  • In most animals, that process inhibits tumors and gets rid of diseased cells.
    — R.m. Davis, Science | AAAS, 23 June 2021
  • Prune out and dispose of all diseased leaves and stems in the fall while thinning the planting to increase air movement to promote drying.
    — Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 19 Aug. 2023
  • That’s because there have only been a handful of options available to study how a diseased or healthy heart pumps blood.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 16 July 2022
  • Pruning of citrus is only necessary for removal of dead or diseased wood or to keep the tree in bounds.
    — Joshua Siskin, Orange County Register, 27 Jan. 2024
  • Put the old, diseased plants into greenwaste (don’t compost).
    — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Nov. 2023
  • If your tree shows signs of fungus, prune off diseased leaves and improve the plant’s air circulation.
    — Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Oct. 2024
  • Next, the patient is placed on a heart-lung bypass machine, which performs the heart's job (pumping blood) while the surgeon replaces the diseased valve.
    — Colleen Doherty, Verywell Health, 30 Sep. 2024
  • Dead, damaged, or diseased plants are much more vulnerable to fire, and can cause fires to spread more quickly.
    — Elizabeth Waddington, Treehugger, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Prune any wild or unruly shoots and remove any dead or diseased wood to keep your roses healthy and under control.
    — Marie Woodward, Hartford Courant, 25 May 2024
  • Start by removing any canes that appear to be dead, diseased or dying.
    — oregonlive, 25 Feb. 2023

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