sexually transmitted diseases
CulturalExample Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in a speech Monday at a medical conference on sexually transmitted diseases.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 19, 2022
Right now, there is no coordinated national response, as there is for sexually transmitted diseases or COVID-19, to tick-borne disease in the U.S.
From Salon • Jan. 19, 2022
Among them are not only contraceptives and the anti-HIV PrEP drugs, but substance-abuse counseling, anti-smoking programs, screening for risks of cancer and sexually transmitted diseases, and child and adult immunization for 14 different conditions.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 21, 2021
She also recognizes less often acknowledged stigma-mongers, like direct-to-consumer marketing by pharmaceutical companies, journalism that describes sexually transmitted diseases in language that reinforces the stigma, and even the prevalence of an infection.
From New York Times • Feb. 12, 2021
John Zenilman of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, an expert on sexually transmitted diseases, has another explanation: the breakdown of medical services in the city’s poorest neighborhoods.
From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
![]()
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.