DIAGNOSE in a Sentence

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Old Dr. Fontaine diagnosed her trouble as female complaint and concurred with Dr. Meade in saying she should never have had Beau.

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 Meanings and Examples of DIAGNOSE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
diagnose
 v.  analyze; examine; identify
Classic Sentence:
1  Yet he did not repress all boyish playfulness, since he declared it to be as necessary as a rash to a doctor, inasmuch as it enabled him to diagnose what lay hidden within.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER I
2  Old Dr. Fontaine diagnosed her trouble as female complaint and concurred with Dr. Meade in saying she should never have had Beau.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
3  Once Dr. Meade had to be called and Rhett was short with him when he diagnosed only bad dreams.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LII
4  Where it is ill, we probe; and the sickness once diagnosed, the study of the cause leads to the discovery of the remedy.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—THE TWO DUTIES: TO WATCH AND TO HOPE
5  This farmer diagnosed the situation correctly, but his frank words did not add anything to my comfort.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XIII.
Example Sentence:
1  How to diagnose a sick fish by their behavioral changes and what you can do to cure the illness.
2  The test is used to diagnose a variety of diseases.
3  He diagnosed the trouble that caused the engine to knock.
4  Matthew was wrongly diagnosed as having a brain tumour.
5  Since his cancer was diagnosed, he feels as if he's living on borrowed time.
6  Her condition was wrongly diagnosed by the doctor.
7  In about half of diagnosed cases, the condition is operable.
8  The plastic surgeon diagnosed my illness as a rare bone disease.
9  The doctor diagnosed the illness as pneumonia.
10  Our doctor diagnosed a throat infection and prescribed antibiotic and junior aspirin.
11  If diabetes is not diagnosed early, or if it is poorly managed, he said, it can result in blindness, heart disease, stroke, and kidney failure.
12  Of all persons who have been diagnosed as epileptic, between three and five percent are known to be of the photosensitive type.
13  The changes of psychiatric diagnoses and treatments have pushed the field into recognizing the balance between the biological and social sciences.
14  The book diagnoses the present financial crisis.