How to Use contagion in a Sentence

contagion

noun

• People have been warned to keep out of the area to avoid contagion.
• At the same time, the chaos caused by the coup has created conditions ripe for contagion.
  — Feliz Solomon, WSJ, 23 July 2021
• Sobyanin said the city reversed the decision because the pace of contagion has slowed.
  — Fox News, 16 July 2021
• Any urushiol oil that isn't properly washed off is like a contagion and spreads rash-causing allergens.
  — Christopher Bergland, Verywell Health, 3 July 2024
• Yet this contagion from pandemic to political chaos is not confined to the most wretched nations of the earth.
  — Niall Ferguson Bloomberg Opinion, Star Tribune, 31 July 2021
• The slow start also sunk the euro zone economy as member states adopted strict lockdown measures to curb contagion.
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 1 July 2021
• The idea of quarantine as a check on contagion was advanced in Dubrovnik, the picturesque walled city on the Adriatic.
  — Mark Lamster, Dallas News, 16 July 2021
• People eschewed bills and coins during the pandemic, because of fear of contagion and because most shopping went online.
  — Carolyn Said, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 July 2021
• That should confer protection against any serious illness, and mute the potential for contagion.
  — Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 20 July 2021
• Emotional contagion doesn’t even require direct in-person contact.
  — Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 22 July 2021
• For visiting athletes and others, transportation plans are now centered around safety and preventing contagion.
  — Camille Squires, Quartz, 24 July 2021
• But, as with the Games themselves, mired in cost overruns, political controversy and pandemic contagion, the world-changing fervor is gone.
  — Alexandra Lange, Curbed, 23 July 2021
• A year ago, to avoid contagion from going into patient rooms, cables stretched to IV monitors in the hall, Ms. Zacharski recalled.
  — New York Times, 30 July 2021
• The best way to avoid contagion is to get tested and get the vaccine.
  — Devika Rao, The Week, 13 Aug. 2023
• Here and here and here are some examples of the contagion.
  — Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 16 Dec. 2022
• The country may now have fewer tools to fight the next contagion.
  — Joel Achenbach, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Mar. 2023
• Sounds a lot like the FTX contagion that romped through the financial world.
  — Gregg Opelka, WSJ, 14 Dec. 2022
• From Portugal to Spain to Greece, the flames have spread like a contagion.
  — Wired, 21 July 2022
• Yet, despite the paths of contagion leading back to the U.S., the disease was contained.
  — Philipp Carlsson-Szlezak, Fortune, 17 July 2023
• Athens is the only one of Ohio’s 88 counties that has dropped out of the red zone of contagion as of Wednesday.
  — Anne Saker, The Enquirer, 18 Nov. 2021
• The first test for the biggest companies in tech will be contagion from their peers.
  — New York Times, 20 May 2022
• Even if the effect is minor, the fear of contagion will roil U.S. markets for at least a while.
  — Milton Ezrati, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2021
• The worst fears of an unchecked financial contagion have eased.
  — David J. Lynch, Washington Post, 16 Apr. 2023
• That type of worry, though, spreads like a contagion to voters.
  — John Blake, CNN, 22 June 2024
• The fear of contagion — the viral spread of suicide through social groups — hung over the school like a miasma.
  — Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2023
• So far that kind of contagion doesn’t appear to be taking place.
  — Jon Hilsenrath, WSJ, 28 Feb. 2022
• There is an emotional contagion in which the mere reactions of players can shape the events on the field—for good and bad.
  — Ben Cohen, WSJ, 8 Dec. 2022
• Her partner, who had been around her unmasked at the height of contagion, never got sick.
  — Jen Murphy, Outside Online, 27 Feb. 2023
• The episode and potential contagion beg the question of whether Wintermute might be next to fall.
  — Jeff Kauflin, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2022
• The plot follows an elite team who investigate an underground facility known as the Hive after a contagion leak caused everyone to become bloodthirsty zombies.
  — Keith Langston, Peoplemag, 10 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 2 Oct 2024