Example Sentences

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Tollund Man’s skin and nails had cured and blackened over thousands of years spent in the oxygen-free environment of the bog.

From National Geographic • Feb. 6, 2024

Her pediatrician, who was in the audience and had cured Padilla’s childhood case of rickets.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 28, 2023

After all, tens of thousands of your fellow Americans insisted that it had cured them.

From Salon • Mar. 23, 2022

Nearly 12 years after the first person was cured of H.I.V., the virus that causes AIDS, researchers reported that they had cured a second patient.

From New York Times • Dec. 23, 2019

Of course ‘made to work’ is a slippery concept: plenty of alchemists thought they had seen base metal turn into gold, and plenty of doctors thought they had cured their patients through bloodletting.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton