How to Use epidemic in a Sentence

epidemic

1 of 2 adjective

• The idea came at a time of near epidemic levels of gun violence.
  — Megan Cassidy, SFChronicle.com, 19 Sep. 2019
• The economy may be able to return to pre-epidemic levels by the end of next year or early 2022, Scholz said.
  — Mariajose Vera, Bloomberg.com, 5 Sep. 2020
• The anatomy of an outbreak: how tiny changes in the genome of the Chikungunya virus have created an epidemic African strain and a tamer Asian strain.
  — Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 19 Aug. 2013
• The anti-epidemic agency didn't respond to questions sent to its office by fax.
  — Arkansas Online, 2 Dec. 2022
• Calls to Beihai’s anti-epidemic task force and tourism agencies went unanswered.
  — Linda Lew, Bloomberg.com, 22 July 2022
• Power abuses are epidemic in an industry where employment is contingent and hard to obtain and much of the workforce is in the first bloom of youth.
  — Vogue, 4 Nov. 2021
• Yet there seem to be some crucial differences between the virus that caused an epidemic 17 years ago and the one causing a global pandemic today.
  — TheWeek, 28 Mar. 2020
• Severe anti-epidemic measures imposed in response to the outbreak have been lifted, the agency said.
  — Stella Kim, NBC News, 11 Aug. 2022
• The epidemic year was an outlier on every measure, with the warmest winter, the warmest spring and the heaviest early rainfall in 10 years.
  — Maryn McKenna, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2017
• The economic fallout isn’t something epidemic models address, Longini says—but that may have to change.
  — Martin Enserink, Science | AAAS, 25 Mar. 2020
• But carjackings are up, and thefts from vehicles are epidemic.
  — Courtland Milloy, Washington Post, 19 July 2022
• Taiwan formed an epidemic response command center and in late January; that same week, the island confirmed its first case.
  — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 4 Mar. 2020
• But now, the maximum anti-epidemic measures would be relaxed and returned to normal levels, Mr. Kim said.
  — Dasl Yoon, WSJ, 11 Aug. 2022
• When a disease reaches epidemic levels, the first obligation for leaders in any country is to protect their own people.
  — Andrew Natsios, The Conversation, 11 Feb. 2020
• Indeed, my own brand of germaphobia has kept pace with the decades and, during periodic epidemic panics,...
  — Grace Paine Terzian, WSJ, 9 Mar. 2020
• Officials also say the number of evictions is soaring to an epidemic level as rents continue to rise.
  — Chabeli Herrera, orlandosentinel.com, 10 Dec. 2019
• But the country has seemingly been spared from a major wave of infections, thanks in part to stringent anti-epidemic measures, controls on the movement of people and the border lockdown.
  — Joshua Berlinger, CNN, 20 Jan. 2021
• Still, as of last week, visits to retail establishments and restaurants were about 17 percent lower than pre-epidemic levels.
  — Anna Kuchment, Dallas News, 7 June 2020
• Across the country, cities are imposing anti-epidemic restrictions, and households are hoarding supplies, fearing they will be locked down next.
  — Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 18 Apr. 2022
• This week, a video widely shared online appeared to show an anti-epidemic worker in Shanghai beating a corgi to death on the street after its Covid-positive owner had been taken away.
  — NBC News, 8 Apr. 2022
• The result was that thousands of unknowing carriers spread the viral plague while the government covered up its epidemic proportions.
  — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 20 Feb. 2020
• The dream of running off to live the good life in a postcard perfect town in the mountains or by the sea often reaches epidemic proportions near the end of summer.
  — John Rasmus, National Geographic, September 2004
• Global stock markets have also sunk as investors face up to the reality of a return to pre-epidemic monetary policy.
  — Billy Bambrough, Forbes, 29 Jan. 2022
• The razing has reached truly epidemic proportions in the Park Cities, where there is zero landmark protection for even the most significant works of architecture.
  — Dallas News, 12 Jan. 2022
• And only heightened by the fact that STD rates are at an all-time high, there's no doubt that opening up the biological treatment to a wider range of women is a major stride for a health concern that's approaching epidemic proportions.
  — Lauren Valenti, Vogue, 8 Oct. 2018
• In 2016, the World Health Organization added Lassa fever to its list of priority pathogens of epidemic potential, calling for more research.
  — Leslie Roberts, Science | AAAS, 12 Mar. 2018
• Telangana has not enacted strict anti-epidemic measures, only a curfew at night.
  — CNN, 28 Apr. 2021
• Reaching epidemic proportions on no less than five occasions during the late 15th and early 16th centuries, sweating sickness was highly lethal.
  — Lauren Hubbard, Town & Country, 13 May 2019
• The prior pessimism of most epidemic models will either be confirmed or refuted, depending on the percentages of Americans who have already weathered the virus.
  — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 16 Apr. 2020
• Collier said that overall, activity on Dauphin Island had rebounded to very near pre-epidemic levels.
  — al, 23 June 2020

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epidemic

2 of 2 noun

• But the face—and race—of the opioid epidemic has changed in the past decade.
  — Melba Newsome, Scientific American, 17 Nov. 2022
• Putin this week said the country had passed the peak of the epidemic.
  — Henry Meyer, Bloomberg.com, 5 June 2020
• The epidemic was on the wane, and the trial of Galileo was about to begin.
  — Hannah Marcus, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2020
• The common thread for these plans from the White House is the epidemic, seems to me.
  — Larry Light, Forbes, 27 May 2021
• This city has one of the worst local covid-19 epidemics in the country.
  — The Economist, 23 May 2020
• The opioid epidemic is the major cause of the surge, the agency says.
  — Mark Curnutte, Cincinnati.com, 27 June 2018
• The offensive woes have been an epidemic since the turn of the new year.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 26 Jan. 2018
• There was a lot of meth use and the start of an opioid epidemic.
  — J.j. Anselmi, The New Republic, 21 Dec. 2020
• The false-start epidemic of 2016 isn't quite as strong.
  — Michael Casagrande, AL.com, 24 Oct. 2017
• The shape on the epidemic curve is a classic spike — sharply up, then sharply down.
  — Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Aug. 2022
• And as if that weren’t enough the aids epidemic was at its height when Frances met Frank.
  — Mary Costello, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2023
• The workplace has not been spared in this epidemic, of course.
  — Lila MacLellan, Quartz at Work, 7 Feb. 2020
• Until now the world has turned a blind eye to this epidemic.
  — Meredith Wadman, Science | AAAS, 17 July 2019
• This time at least the epidemic—and the need for a vaccine—is real.
  — Marc Siegel, WSJ, 7 Sep. 2020
• The increase of the epidemic has slowed down their plotlines as well.
  — Bea Lewis, sun-sentinel.com, 24 Sep. 2021
• But Brazil, where Bulcão was born and grew up, is still deep in the thick of its epidemic.
  — John Leicester and Mauricio Savarese, Star Tribune, 1 July 2021
• In the last days of the 1400s, a terrible epidemic swept through Europe.
  — WIRED, 22 Sep. 2023
• Because quarantine is a way to cut off the spread of the epidemic.
  — Fox News, 11 Nov. 2022
• If this epidemic is contained, the world should learn the lesson.
  — The Economist, 24 May 2018
• Why, in the heart of the epidemic, did things seem to be so disorganized?
  — Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2021
• After the epidemic was over, the spittoons didn’t come back.
  — The New Republic, 16 Dec. 2020
• One of the papers claimed there was an epidemic of dog rape at dog parks and that men should be leashed like dogs.
  — oregonlive, 13 Sep. 2021
• These brutal losses for the Irish are part of a three-decade epidemic.
  — Terence Moore, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2022
• In the end, Rite Aid was too small and too poor to pay the costs of lawsuits related to the opioid epidemic.
  — Sarah Nassauer, WSJ, 16 Oct. 2023
• In fact, the virus will be with us forever, but its epidemic force will have been sapped.
  — The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic, 16 Dec. 2020
• Decades of decline followed, in which a crack epidemic caused the murder rate to spike.
  — The Economist, 21 June 2018
• Can this opioid epidemic be stopped, and solved, by one man?
  — Jack Fowler, National Review, 24 June 2021
• The opioid epidemic is the public health crisis of our time. . .
  — Bill Myers, Chicago Reader, 16 May 2018
• There’s a reason why the U.S. continues to struggle with its opioid epidemic.
  — Discover Magazine, 3 Apr. 2024
• Formerly known as the Youth Anxiety Center, the Center was founded 11 years ago to address the epidemic of anxiety and depression among young people.
  — Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 11 Apr. 2024

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