How to Use bacillus in a Sentence

bacillus

noun

• Eventually a virus—1/20th the size of a bacillus—was identified as the culprit.
  — Edward Kosner, WSJ, 10 Dec. 2017
• Centuries later, scientists concluded that the disease was caused by the bacillus , which spread through touch, through the air and through the bite of infected fleas and rats.
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2020
• In terms of the probiotic, these chips are legit, with the strain bacillus coagulans added into the mix.
  — Abby Langer, SELF, 20 Dec. 2017
• Mercifully, our present virus doesn’t match the plague bacillus in lethality.
  — Matt Winesett, National Review, 4 Apr. 2020
• The masses of poor religious Jews in Poland were almost accidental to the effort; the real target was the élite, who brought with them the bacillus of cosmopolitanism.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 15 June 2020
• Also, the early use of face masks which predated Wu's discovery of the bacillus as pneumonic.
  — Paul French, CNN, 18 Apr. 2020
• The technique is a deadly bacteria bacillus, one that first emerges in one corner of the world and is spreading far and wide, with consequences that could prove disastrous for hundreds of millions of people.
  — Frida Ghitis, CNN, 14 Sep. 2021
• In 1904, as the novel begins, Dulcy’s bacillus-addled father leaps out of a Seattle hotel window, leaving behind a mystery as to the whereabouts of a large, recently won fortune.
  — Jean Zimmerman, New York Times, 14 July 2017
• The results found all types of bacteria, like staphylococcus, streptococcus, bacillus cereus, and E. coli.
  — Danielle Tullo, House Beautiful, 11 Oct. 2018
• Mingheria, as Pamuk conceives it, is an impossible Eden, into which the bacillus of history must enter.
  — James Wood, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2022
• The ReencleMicrobe mix at the heart of this process contains rice husks, vermiculite, nonpathogenic bacillus bacteria, ammonium sulfate, and wood pellets, according to the company.
  — Richard Baguley, Wired, 31 Mar. 2022
• Scientists postulate that the bacillus originated in some lower animal and jumped to humans.
  — Washington Post, 23 Mar. 2022
• Most doctors assumed the disease was caused by a bacterium; the recently discovered Pfeiffer’s bacillus (Haemophilus influenzae), which was sometimes present in pathology specimens, was the prime suspect.
  — Wendy Moore, Time, 28 Apr. 2020
• Once the bacillus and its antibacterial medication were discovered, the TB patient was no longer exiled but treated within, and assimilated by, the same socioeconomic framework as the rest of us.
  — Joseph Osmundson, The New Republic, 30 July 2020
• Renovations can be observed in older buildings that in Soviet times were factories for mass-producing bacillus anthracis, the bacteria that causes anthrax.
  — Joby Warrick, chicagotribune.com, 18 Mar. 2018
• Monsanto’s cotton seed is spliced with genetic material taken from bacterium called bacillus thuringiensis and commonly referred to as BT.
  — Associated Press, WIRED, 10 Feb. 2003

Last Updated: 25 Aug 2024