Example Sentences

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Supporters of the measure oppose the term “assisted suicide” because patients with uncurable ailments don’t necessarily want to die; they just want to avoid the inevitable pain of their lethal illness.

From Washington Times • Mar. 15, 2021

The disease, though uncurable and irreversible, can be controlled through medications.

From Washington Times • Mar. 8, 2020

A specialist in Houston diagnosed angioedema, an uncurable disease involving swelling of deep layers of skin.

From New York Times • Jan. 6, 2018

But that my heart's on future mischief set,     I would speak blasphemy ere bid you fly;     But fly you must; uncurable discomfit     Reigns in the hearts of all our present parts.

From King Henry VI, Part 2 by Shakespeare, William

Where defects are uncurable, the teacher must show how they may be palliated and sometimes even converted into graces.

From A Treatise on the Art of Dancing by Gallini, Giovanni-Andrea