Curable is an English word with synonyms like incurable or tempered. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Curable in a sentence
Curable meaning
Capable of being cured.
Using Curable
- The main meaning on this page is: Capable of being cured.
- Useful related words include: incurable, tempered, treated, hardened.
- In the example corpus, curable often appears in combinations such as: not curable, is curable, curable with.
Context around Curable
- Average sentence length in these examples: 17.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 5 middle, 13 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Curable
- In this selection, "curable" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 17.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, highly, possibly, theoretically, disease, diseases and condition stand out and add context to how "curable" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include are highly curable and changed from curable to treatable. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "curable" sits close to words such as abating, abstaining and accumulator, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with curable
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Childhood cancers are highly curable. (5 words)
Stroke is not curable, but manageable. (6 words)
But these symptoms are still treatable and curable. (8 words)
By screening individuals at high risk for lung cancer using low dose computed tomography, this disease can now be found early, when it is most treatable and even possibly curable. (30 words)
Using a unique UV-curable synthetic stone material, Mighty Buildings has created a process for 3D-printing an entire 350-square-foot housing unit in just 24 hours. (28 words)
Syphilis is a curable disease and is treated with one to three shots of an injectable penicillin, depending on the stage of the infection, Stiner said. (26 words)
Example sentences (20)
I’ve said it before: the patient is sick, but it’s not curable.
Syphilis is a curable disease and is treated with one to three shots of an injectable penicillin, depending on the stage of the infection, Stiner said.
By screening individuals at high risk for lung cancer using low dose computed tomography, this disease can now be found early, when it is most treatable and even possibly curable.
Childhood cancers are highly curable.
He emphasised the need for early detection and treatment, especially for TB, a disease with high mortality rates but is also curable with timely intervention.
In Nigeria, a death certificate is issued every five minutes for a disease that is curable and preventable.
Like Type 1 diabetes, it is treatable, but so far not curable.
Odume expressed regrets that in 2024, many Nigerians still believe that TB is not curable and related to witchcraft activities.
Although Thad's illness was theoretically curable with a treatment derived from an active positronic matrix, the of 2385 meant that none were available.
But these symptoms are still treatable and curable.
His experience suggested that HIV might one day be curable.
She said: ‘I have stage one cancer so it is curable with a really good prognosis but obviously that depends on it not spreading.
Stroke is not curable, but manageable.
THE deplorable state of public healthcare in Zimbabwe shows how the government got its priorities wrong resulting in thousands of people dying from curable diseases.
The ultimate goal of the research is to transform ALK-positive lung cancer into a chronic or curable condition.
Using a unique UV-curable synthetic stone material, Mighty Buildings has created a process for 3D-printing an entire 350-square-foot housing unit in just 24 hours.
When Voinescu called Steve’s mother and told her the news, she couldn’t believe it: No one had ever uttered the word “curable” before.
A doctor said to me that the cancer I have had changed from curable to treatable.
Although it is not curable, the symptoms can be managed.
Doctors reminded the Tuckers that Roe Roe’s illness is highly curable.
Common combinations with curable
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- not curable 9×
- is curable 9×
- curable with 7×
- and curable 4×
- curable disease 3×
- curable but 3×
- curable if 3×
- often curable 3×
- highly curable 2×
- curable and 2×