metastasize

How To Use metastasize In A Sentence

• Over the ensuing 2-year period, the tumor recurred in the neck and metastasized to the lungs, skin, and bone.
• Vertical-phase tumors are more likely to metastasize (spread cancer to other parts of the body) than radial melanomas.
• You take out the main operational leader and then the cells kind of metastasize and become harder targets because they're dispersed. CNN Transcript Mar 18, 2007
• As the world prospered behind their backs, this insular strain of American metastasized into swaggering jingoes full of Cold War machismo, content to wave the flag and "Go for the gold. Mike Farrell: The Ugly America
• In subsequent prints, the demurely phallic-shaped object gradually metastasizes into a whorling explosion.
• Convinced that private tutoring is a "slippery slope," the father was certain that a biology tutor would only teach his son that if he made a mess, someone would be there to clean it up and, moreover, this mindset would metastasize into other areas of his son's life. Alex Mallory: Isn't Tutoring Just a Crutch?
• From what I understand, most Tea Partiers are against big, metastasized government, and against the current regime, just as Michael Moore and other principled Progs have been against a less controlling-engineering-redistributionist one. The Volokh Conspiracy » Timothy McVeigh Was No Libertarian: The Fallacy of Conflating Two Very Different Types of “Anti-Government” Movements
• For example, cancers of the oral cavity typically metastasize to the submandibular triangle, whereas cancers from most other sites in the head and neck spread to the lateral neck.
• Lung cancers often metastasize to the brain, liver, adrenals, bone, and kidneys but evaluation of these organs is usually directed by symptoms and clinical suspicion rather than by routine scanning.
• The cancer may be slow - endometrial stromal sarcoma growing or aggressive and may metastasize, most are malignant.