How to Use virus in a Sentence

virus

noun
  • The software checks your hard drive for viruses.
  • Is the illness caused by bacteria or a virus?
  • I think I have the virus that's going around this winter.
  • And the teams aren’t free from the virus, even in Qatar.
    — Steve Price, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2022
  • The virus is the third-leading cause of death in the state, per the CDC.
    — Jason Sanchez, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2022
  • The virus can also cause swelling of the lungs and brain.
    — Matthew Kelly, Kansas City Star, 28 Apr. 2025
  • African fruit bats are the reservoir hosts of the virus, the CDC said.
    — Staff and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2023
  • Since then, seven more deaths have been linked to the virus.
    — Jake Frederico, The Arizona Republic, 28 Apr. 2023
  • But the lesions and blisters caused by the virus are painful.
    — Hartford Courant, 30 July 2022
  • With a new virus comes a whole new set of rules and etiquette.
    — Annie Lane, oregonlive, 28 Jan. 2022
  • Armstrong, this does not mean that the virus caused the cancer.
    — Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 2 Aug. 2025
  • The whole immune system is there to respond to the virus.
    — Angus Chen, STAT, 8 Nov. 2023
  • The virus had been dormant for tens of thousands of years.
    — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 3 Dec. 2022
  • So, Zimmer asks, where does a virus stand on the spectrum of life?
    — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Public support for the hard-line approach waned as the rest of the world learned to live with the virus.
    — Christian Shepherd, Washington Post, 28 Nov. 2022
  • Measles is one of the most contagious viruses in the world.
    — Dan Sweeney, Sun Sentinel, 27 Apr. 2025
  • There are four variations, or serotypes, of the dengue virus.
    — Jenna Anderson, Health, 25 Mar. 2025
  • At least 58 million birds were slaughtered last year to limit the spread of the virus.
    — Marina Johnson, The Indianapolis Star, 5 Apr. 2024
  • Still, children are far less likely to die from the virus.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Jan. 2022
  • The spike protein is what the virus uses to attach to and infect cells.
    — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 5 Jan. 2024
  • The lab can run as many as 500 tests for monkeypox virus a day.
    — Shari Rudavsky, The Indianapolis Star, 1 Sep. 2022
  • Biden was elected promising to shut down the virus, not the country.
    — The Editors, National Review, 21 Apr. 2022
  • The two men meet three years after the deadly fungal virus takes over the world.
    — Sabrina Talbert, Women's Health, 30 Jan. 2023
  • But the virus can be life-threatening for the very young and the elderly.
    — Arkansas Online, 5 Nov. 2022
  • There is no vaccine for the virus, and the survival rate is only 20 to 30% in most cases, the zoo said.
    — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 1 July 2023
  • In this sense, AI would act like a virus that mutates against a vaccine.
    — Kevin Williams, CNBC, 24 July 2025
  • Thirty more people died from the virus since last week.
    — Brooks Sutherland, The Enquirer, 19 Jan. 2022
  • The virus infects about 19 to 21 million people each year in the United States.
    — Kristina Behr, Parents, 1 Mar. 2024
  • The virus also can spread by direct contact between rabbits through body fluids such as feces, saliva and urine.
    — Janet Loehrke, USA Today, 22 Aug. 2025
  • The premise is fun: A meteor crashes into Earth and releases a virus that turns zoo animals into zombies.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025

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