How to Use bubonic plague in a Sentence

bubonic plague

noun

• Of course, a bubonic plague just had to break out, and pile on the despair.
  — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 14 Feb. 2022
• This is the same rat that wiped out half of Europe with the bubonic plague.
  — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 13 Jan. 2023
• Rats and fleas in parts of the country carry the bubonic plague.
  — Caroline Chen, ProPublica, 7 Mar. 2023
• It’s part of a centuries-old pact with God to protect the town from the bubonic plague.
  — Nick Penzenstadler, USA TODAY, 24 Sep. 2020
• But with recent fears of bubonic plague on the West Coast, the shop wasn't carrying rats.
  — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 23 Dec. 2020
• Rats and fleas, transmitters of bubonic plague, get their due.
  — Julia M. Klein, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Sep. 2023
• Not long after, bubonic plague caused the loss of as many as 100 million people.
  — Michael S. Hopkins, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Nov. 2020
• Symptoms of bubonic plague can include fever, headache, chills, weakness and swollen lymph nodes, the CDC says.
  — Ryan W. Miller, USA TODAY, 7 July 2020
• The historic port on France’s Mediterranean coast was the site of Western Europe’s last outbreak of the bubonic plague.
  — Washington Post, 2 July 2020
• The mass grave and the presence of the bubonic plague, amazingly, may have just been a coincidence.
  — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 7 June 2023
• Yersinia pestis, a bacteria species spread by fleas, causes the bubonic plague.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Oct. 2022
• Once abroad, crewmen risked many diseases, but bubonic plague was not among them.
  — James Belich, Fortune, 22 Jan. 2023
• The bubonic plague, a disease caused by the bacteria Yersinia pestis, killed millions across the globe centuries ago.
  — Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner, 7 Aug. 2020
• The bubonic plague has long been present in the California region.
  — Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure, 4 Aug. 2021
• In 14th-century Europe, Jews were blamed for the bubonic plague.
  — Arie Perliger, The Conversation, 17 Feb. 2022
• It was even linked to an increase in shark attacks off the coast of Oregon and a spike in bubonic plague in New Mexico.
  — John D'anna, azcentral, 18 July 2019
• It is first recorded to have been used at Westminster Abbey in 1349, when the bubonic plague known as the Black Death was spreading across the country.
  — Leila Sackur, NBC News, 6 May 2023
• To get more click bait, toss in a bubonic plague comparison.
  — Krista Kafer, The Denver Post, 17 July 2020
• The bubonic plague in the Middle Ages and the 1918 flu killed sizable percentages of working-age people.
  — Gwynn Guilford and Lauren Weber, WSJ, 7 Nov. 2022
• These prominent buboes give their name to bubonic plague.
  — Maggie Fox, NBC News, 3 Nov. 2017
• The bubonic plague is infamously known for causing the Black Death.
  — Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 10 Nov. 2021
• The world has seen plenty of pandemics over the course of human history: cholera, bubonic plague, Asian flu.
  — oregonlive, 27 Mar. 2020
• Some, like those behind the bubonic plague, have had a big impact on our immune systems.
  — Laura Ungar, Fortune, 19 Oct. 2022
• The best a plague doctor could do was drain blood and lymph from the swollen buboes that gave the bubonic plague its name – but sometimes that only helped spread the infection.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2021
• The pneumonic plague is more deadly than the bubonic plague, which is rarely spread from person to person.
  — Michael Brice-Saddler, chicagotribune.com, 15 Nov. 2019
• In 1900, there was a bubonic plague outbreak in San Francisco.
  — Becky Little, Time, 20 Mar. 2020
• The bubonic plague is one of three different types of plague, along with septicemic and pneumonic.
  — Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 10 Nov. 2021
• In the fourteenth century, the bubonic plague killed up to 125 million people, around a quarter of all the humans on earth.
  — Kevin Baker, Harper's Magazine, 23 June 2020
• Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that causes bubonic plague, spreads through the bites of infected fleas.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 12 June 2018
• Symptoms of the bubonic plague often included large, swollen lymph nodes that oozed puss.
  — Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 31 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024