How to Use common cold in a Sentence

common cold

noun

• Is a mild case of the coronavirus similar to a mild case of the common cold?
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 13 July 2020
• This was based on studies of how other diseases spread, such as norovirus and viruses that cause the common cold.
  — Laura Helmuth, Scientific American, 4 Aug. 2020
• Jack had no underlying conditions and was in good health, and at first the symptoms looked a lot like a common cold.
  — Kathleen Felton, SELF, 27 Sep. 2024
• Most are related to the coronaviruses that cause the common cold in people.
  — Maggie Fox, CNN, 16 June 2020
• Cases of the common cold, which can also be caused by a coronavirus, typically dip this time of year.
  — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 14 June 2020
• Every year, children are a major driver of transmission for the viruses that cause the flu and the common cold.
  — Jim Morrison, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 July 2020
• Research shows that zinc does reduce the duration of common cold viruses, some of which are similar to the current coronavirus.
  — David Hogberg, Washington Examiner, 3 Aug. 2020
• People can lose their sense of smell after suffering a viral infection, like influenza or the common cold, or after a traumatic brain injury.
  — Sara Harrison, National Geographic, 5 Aug. 2020
• Today, science recognizes those very common signs of both the common cold and flu as more frequent in Covid-19 than previously thought.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 10 July 2020
• In Dallas that year, the city’s chief health officer, A.W. Carnes, waved off the fast-approaching pandemic as not much more than the common cold.
  — David Tarrant, Dallas News, 3 July 2020
• That’s been done with some of the viruses that cause the common cold.
  — Joanne Silberner, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Sep. 2020
• The flu and common cold were the most prevalent viruses found in the bins back in 2016.
  — Ryan Erik King / Jalopnik, Quartz, 3 Sep. 2024
• For the most part the latest version of the virus is more like a mild flu or a common cold.
  — Carl Weiser, The Enquirer, 19 Jan. 2022
• How is one to know if an illness is the common cold with cough for weeks or the virus?!
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 2 Oct. 2021
• But it’s not just a matter of taking off for the common cold.
  — Malaika Jabali, Essence, 2 Dec. 2022
• But people who say it’s like the common cold -- it’s not.
  — Mike Anthony, courant.com, 3 Dec. 2020
• The research on zinc's effect on the common cold has been mixed.
  — Cynthia Sass, Mph, Health, 19 May 2024
• Sometimes a common cold virus, like rhinovirus, is in the mix.
  — Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Los Angeles Times, 2 Jan. 2024
• And more than 200 viruses (!) can cause the common cold, according to the CDC.
  — Emily Shiffer, Women's Health, 27 Jan. 2023
• And the Omicron variant can’t be equated with the common cold.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Dec. 2021
• The Cleveland Clinic says the common cold lasts seven to 10 days: Days 1 to 3: This is the early stages of the cold.
  — Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY, 31 Mar. 2023
• This goes for the common cold, the flu and viruses that could be life-threatening.
  — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 31 Oct. 2022
• In fact, one study found that zinc lozenges were able to reduce the duration of the common cold by 33%.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 12 Oct. 2022
• They have been used for cholera, typhoid, malaria, and even the common cold.
  — Mick Krever, Phil Black and Cristiana Moisescu, CNN, 12 Oct. 2020
• That included the delta and omicron variants and the common cold virus.
  — Meredith Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 25 Mar. 2022
• Although the infection feels like a cold or the flu for many people, this is not the common cold.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 10 Sep. 2023
• The symptoms of the common cold are typically a stuffy head, the sniffles and body aches.
  — Sarah Maslin Nir, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2021
• Lewis: The symptoms of RSV are often similar to the common cold.
  — Josh Fischman, Scientific American, 15 Mar. 2023
• Rhinovirus, cause of the common cold, rarely sends people to the hospital.
  — Frances Stead Sellers, Anchorage Daily News, 13 June 2022
• Infections like the common cold or flu cause the immune system to ramp up.
  — Kashif J. Piracha, Verywell Health, 11 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 25 Dec 2024