flare-up

How To Use flare-up In A Sentence

• Your child's triggers will determine what steps you need to take to prevent asthma flare-ups where you're staying.
• The flare-up began on Monday when a teenager was wounded in a drive-by shooting.
• Ultimately, dieters who are plagued by chronic overeating flare-ups may be able to diminish their severity because they learn from past experience how to handle the situations that are causing them to stop following a calorie-conscious food plan. Judith J. Wurtman, PhD: Overeating Flare-Ups: Are They the Cause of Chronic Obesity?
• Though a Sadr standdown order resolved the situation to a degree, the flare-up also highlighted the destructive role Iran has played in funding, training, arming and directing the so-called special groups and generated renewed concern about Iran in the minds of many Iraqi leaders. CNN Transcript Apr 9, 2008
• Steroids calm flare-ups of eczema by suppressing the body's inflammatory response.
• The constituting of enquiry commissions has become a common feature after each communal flare-up.
• If a recent illness or asthma flare-up keeps your child from participating actively, your child can still stay involved by serving as scorekeeper or equipment handler until he or she is cleared to return to full participation.
• Apart from one or two flare-ups the match went fairly smoothly.
• Irritants in the air such as tobacco or woodsmoke, perfumes, aerosol sprays, cleaning products, and fumes from paint or cooking gas can all trigger asthma flare-ups.
• With each flare-up, it is clear that the term truce has taken on a diplomatic meaning distinct from actual events on the ground. CAMERA Snapshots