How to Use contagion in a Sentence

contagion

noun

• People have been warned to keep out of the area to avoid contagion.
• Diseases are spreaders of not only contagion but custom.
  — Editorial Board, Star Tribune, 14 Feb. 2021
• Most mistakenly thought that, at worst, the world was facing a contagion like the virus that caused SARS.
  — Erin Allday, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Mar. 2021
• King County residents who showed no signs of infection could nonetheless mist a deadly contagion into the air.
  — James Ross Gardner, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2021
• Lynch’s dedication to discipline and craft, no matter how offbeat, is its own benign, magnetic brand of contagion.
  — Howard Fishman, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2021
• With public gyms becoming hotbeds of contagion, the at-home fitness sector experienced a heart pounding rise.
  — Elisabeth Brier, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2021
• But many Iraqi Christians have said that the chance to draw comfort and healing after years of incalculable misery outweighed the risk of contagion.
  — New York Times, 7 Mar. 2021
• Some of these include rapid contagion through digital channels and the possibility of rapid collapse of the system due to bugs or successful cyber-attacks.
  — Vipin Bharathan, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2021
• The Vatican hopes the measures will have the dual effect of protecting the pope while discouraging contagion-inducing crowds.
  — Fox News, 3 Mar. 2021
• The turbulence was ignited as a growth scare emerged following a soft jobs report and fears of contagion emanating from an unwind of the Japanese yen carry trade.
  — Jeffrey Schulze, Forbes, 16 Sep. 2024
• Foreigners were to blame, said one political faction, charging that immigrants were bringing the contagion into the country and spreading it from person to person.
  — Alicia Ault, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Mar. 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
• Sobyanin said the city reversed the decision because the pace of contagion has slowed.
  — Fox News, 16 July 2021
• That type of worry, though, spreads like a contagion to voters.
  — John Blake, CNN, 22 June 2024
• At the same time, the chaos caused by the coup has created conditions ripe for contagion.
  — Feliz Solomon, WSJ, 23 July 2021
• 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
• In fairness, the Fed made a few mistakes along the way, with the most notable being its failure to stop the contagion of bank failures in the 1930s.
  — Bob Pisani, CNBC, 11 Sep. 2024
• 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

Last Updated: 1 Dec 2024