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US
/ˈʃɪŋɡəɫz/
]
[ UK /ʃˈɪŋɡəlz/ ]
[ UK /ʃˈɪŋɡəlz/ ]
NOUN
- eruptions along a nerve path often accompanied by severe neuralgia
How To Use shingles In A Sentence
- Therefore, if the vaccine afforded protection for life, there would be a very strong argument in favor of universal vaccination - no chicken pox and no shingles.
- Half-pipe, tan shingles created a beautiful tessellation on the roof - one Theorton considered if he were ever to purchase his own home some time.
- Nobody ever gets shingles or quinsy, or mumps in a novel.
- The shingles are no great problem; I've shaken hands on a deal to have the house and garage roof replaced in the autumn and if I get a major leak before then all I need do is make a call and they'll hop on over with a large blue tarpaulin.
- If you've ever had chicken pox, you may suffer from shingles or herpes zoster.
- Each year, 600,000 or more Americans are diagnosed with shingles, a painful skin disease caused by a reactivation of the chickenpox virus.
- Some time about the year 1827, two sturdy lads, tall and well proportioned but clad in homespun and barefooted, came to "Dryden Corners" from the South Hill neighborhood, driving an ox team and bringing to market a wagon load of pine shingles which they had shaved by hand. Living in Dryden: June 2004 Archives
- Our house in Ireland was really nothing more then a cottage with white shingles on the pointed roof, the outer boards a pale shade of green.
- The results of applying these dressings to skin previously affected by the shingles rash but still painful has proved highly effective. Times, Sunday Times
- The roofs were thatched, turfed or covered in wood shingles, depending on available local resources.