How to Use immune system in a Sentence

immune system

noun
  • All of this adds up to support the immune system in a big way.
    Maria Goldbach, Vogue, 27 June 2024
  • Your immune system, for most of us, takes a couple of days to clear the virus.
    Charmaine Patterson, Peoplemag, 2 Feb. 2023
  • Limiting the number of copies helps the immune system fight off the virus.
    Ken Alltucker, The Courier-Journal, 10 Jan. 2024
  • There are two main cell types in the adaptive immune system, T cells and B cells.
    Mira Cheng, CNN, 6 Mar. 2024
  • The reason has to do with how the immune system is trained against new viruses.
    Alice Park, Time, 11 Jan. 2023
  • The idea of boosting your immune system doesn’t make sense for lots of reasons.
    Korin Miller, SELF, 23 Oct. 2023
  • It’s known to strengthen the immune system and ward off disease.
    Nicole Kagan, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Aug. 2023
  • The idea is to get off of these drugs by kind of integrating the immune system of the donor in addition to the kidney.
    Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 5 Sep. 2023
  • The new drug is thought to stop the immune system from attacking the insulin-making cells in the pancreas.
    Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Nov. 2022
  • Infections like the common cold or flu cause the immune system to ramp up.
    Kashif J. Piracha, Verywell Health, 11 Oct. 2024
  • After the immune system has had a few chances to fight off the virus, symptoms become more cold-like for the rest of a person’s life.
    Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Oct. 2022
  • Vital for the immune system, taste, smell and wound healing.
    Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 25 June 2024
  • But those cells only comprise half of the immune system.
    Erin Prater, Fortune, 21 Sep. 2022
  • Turning them off leaves most of the immune system intact.
    Markham Heid, Time, 10 Jan. 2023
  • Caregiving can take a toll on the immune system and one’s overall health.
    Libby Richards, Fortune, 13 Jan. 2023
  • The immune system needs a refresher course from time to time, and a booster shot provides one.
    Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2022
  • In a fair fight, the immune system would wipe out cancer every time – but this crafty disease doesn’t play fair.
    Michael Irving, New Atlas, 20 Sep. 2024
  • Your immune system still recognizes the car, but not the hubcaps.
    Matthew Woodruff, The Conversation, 25 Jan. 2023
  • The parasite burrows into the skin of the swimmer and the immune system reacts, causing a rash.
    Divya Murthy, Detroit Free Press, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Plus, yogurt is a good source of zinc and selenium, both of give your immune system a boost.
    Women's Health, 15 Feb. 2023
  • The mucus is our immune system rising to the challenge, shoving virus out of our bodies with our snot.
    Bethany Brookshire, Scientific American, 9 Aug. 2024
  • In other words, since these people have never been exposed to it, their immune systems are ill-equipped to fight it.
    Rajiv Chowdhury, The Conversation, 30 June 2023
  • For example, some of the genes seem to have an impact on how the immune system reacts to various pathogens.
    Daniela Mocker, Scientific American, 4 Oct. 2022
  • With his immune system shot, a tissue for sniffles is always at hand.
    Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 10 Jan. 2024
  • The entire protocol is meant to boost their immune system response to the disease.
    Dino Grandoni, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Mar. 2023
  • The vitamin C is one of the best natural stimulants of the immune system.
    Jon Goodwin, Discover Magazine, 29 Dec. 2022
  • The synthetic melanin cream soaked up the free radicals and quieted the immune system.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 2 Nov. 2023
  • When addiction sets in, paranoia takes over and the immune system breaks down as organs are pushed to failure.
    Mustafa Salim, Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2022
  • The bacteria in raw milk is considered particularly dangerous for pregnant women, children, the elderly and people with weakened immune systems.
    Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes, 24 Nov. 2024
  • According to the National Institute of Health, multiple sclerosis is an autoimmune disorder in which the immune system — which normally protects us from viruses, bacteria, and other threats — mistakenly attacks healthy cells.
    Stephanie Sengwe, People.com, 23 Nov. 2024

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