Example Sentences
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Health was a state of equilibrium, according to this view, a precarious balance among the body’s four humors.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026
They thought their health was all about the balancing of bodily humors.
From Slate • May 8, 2024
Sure, it would take until the 19th century for the germ theory of disease to overtake the concept of humors and “miasmas” that could damage human health.
From National Geographic • May 25, 2023
The theory of bodily humors has long since been discredited and discarded.
From Washington Post • Nov. 7, 2022
He had a habit of attributing all of Bunny’s faults indirectly to her—his laziness, his bad humors, his lapses of taste.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
