How to Use incurable in a Sentence

incurable

adjective
  • Yet is what ails this team incurable, even with their aces on the mound?
    — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 21 Oct. 2022
  • That’s good news, since the virus is incurable and can kill newborn infants.
    — Maggie Fox /, NBC News, 7 Feb. 2018
  • An incurable leg infection hobbled the saint’s step but not his quest.
    — James Matthew Wilson, WSJ, 13 May 2021
  • But many things may cause memory loss — and not all of them are permanent, or even incurable.
    — Episcopal Retirement Services, Cincinnati.com, 21 Feb. 2018
  • The incurable chronic disease scars some patients’ lungs and skin.
    — NBC News, 20 Jan. 2022
  • These drugs can benefit about half of all patients with the incurable disease.
    — Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 18 June 2018
  • For those who don’t know, multiple myeloma is a blood cancer that’s long been known as incurable.
    — John Tamny, Forbes.com, 10 June 2025
  • Everything reeks of that seemingly incurable lust for stuff—‘buy me, buy me’ is the cry.
    — Ian Vorster, Discover Magazine, 1 Oct. 2014
  • Half-a-year later, the disease remains incurable and deadly to some.
    — oregonlive, 25 Nov. 2020
  • His incurable optimism in the face of all logic seems to have infected his staff.
    — Dallas News, 14 Sep. 2022
  • This was like trading a first-round pick in the draft for an aging journeyman with an incurable knee injury.
    — Hal Singer, Wired, 25 Feb. 2021
  • Stage 4 means the cancer has metastasized and spread through the body and are often incurable.
    — Michelle Cortez, Bloomberg.com, 17 May 2017
  • The cancer is treatable but incurable.
    — Bonnie Bolden, USA Today, 18 Aug. 2025
  • The incurable disease was listed as a condition that also led to her death.
    — Nardine Saad, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Two years ago, Emma Dimery was told her stage 4 colon cancer was incurable.
    — Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 6 May 2025
  • Loudon’s parents, at least, won’t have to wrestle with the question of what to do if their son is at risk for an incurable disease.
    — Sarah Elizabeth Richards, Smithsonian, 6 Feb. 2018
  • At that time, she was given 12 to 18 months to live and was told that her cancer was incurable.
    — Rachel McRady, PEOPLE, 13 July 2026
  • But Bowser was not sick, or in pain, or suffering from an incurable disease.
    — Danielle Campoamor, refinery29.com, 7 May 2021
  • Existing treatments have done little to slow the march of the incurable disease.
    — Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 10 June 2021
  • The incurable and terminal disease is a rare and aggressive brain tumor found on the brain stem.
    — Bryan West, USA Today, 26 Mar. 2025
  • By the time that new tumor has grown large enough to show up on a CT scan, the cancer is likely incurable.
    — Delia O'Hara, Discover Magazine, 18 May 2018
  • An incurable disease with little to no research behind it wasn’t the sort of thing that was supposed to happen to us.
    — Lindzi Scharf, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2020
  • Anti-Semitism and other forms of hatred are diseases that seem incurable.
    — Michael Igel, CNN, 9 June 2021
  • Snow has continued in his job for the Flames despite the toll of the cruel and incurable disease.
    — Chad Finn, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Mar. 2023
  • Don’t let your mind linger over incurable problems, but take steps to protect yourself from issues that might pop up in a worst-case scenario.
    — Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 25 Mar. 2021
  • Some of them fear that efforts to exterminate the incurable will lead, inevitably, to assaults on the cured.
    — Gary Thompson, Philly.com, 28 Feb. 2018
  • Kate Bowler was diagnosed with incurable stage four cancer at age 35.
    — Elizabeth Dias, Time, 25 Jan. 2018
  • The disease is incurable but often has long remission times—which has been the case with Meschery.
    — Jack McCallum, SI.com, 15 June 2017
  • In the last instance, Philby is driven by the incurable drug of deceit itself.
    — Philip Kerr, New York Times, 2 June 2017
  • Among men on Medicare with incurable cancer, 15% were screened for prostate cancer.
    — Liz Szabo, USA TODAY, 20 Dec. 2017

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