How to Use immunize in a Sentence

immunize

verb
  • Many people had to be immunized after being exposed to the disease.
  • One by one, Livieri and his team aim to catch and immunize them all.
    Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 15 June 2023
  • Teenagers and adults who have not yet been immunized need one dose.
    Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Utah law requires pet dogs, cats and ferrets to be immunized against the virus.
    Jordan Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 Sep. 2023
  • This is the study of finding ways to immunize people against virus diseases.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 June 2022
  • Even a bland name, however, might not immunize the WHO against blowback.
    Benjamin Mazer, The Atlantic, 17 Aug. 2022
  • With global vaccine supplies still tight, much of the world is struggling to immunize adults.
    Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 24 July 2021
  • The shot was given to children in Washington, D.C., but 80% of those immunized became sick and two children died from the shots.
    Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 22 June 2023
  • But experts say 11 billion are needed to immunize the world.
    Anchorage Daily News, 8 July 2021
  • President Biden has promised enough doses by the end of May to immunize all of the nation’s roughly 260 million adults.
    BostonGlobe.com, 26 Mar. 2021
  • Rates are stalling in most low-income countries well short of the W.H.O.’s goal to immunize 70 percent of people in every nation.
    New York Times, 23 Apr. 2022
  • One way of forcing R down is to immunize the population.
    Samanth Subramanian, Quartz, 4 June 2021
  • Some of the gap results from parents unable or unwilling to share records with the schools, and not because their children are not immunized, Dr. Hahn said.
    Apoorva Mandavilli, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2024
  • The shot will immunize the shark against a human cancer, perhaps, or an infectious disease, such as Covid-19.
    Christina Szalinski, Discover Magazine, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Th state’s goal is to immunize 4 million Michiganders against the flu this year, Veverka said.
    Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 28 Oct. 2022
  • Two doses are no longer required to be fully immunized.
    Julie Washington, cleveland, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Under state law, students in temporary housing have 30 days to start the process of getting immunized.
    John Leland, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2023
  • The African Union, aware of the challenge of obtaining enough vaccines, hoped to immunize 20 percent of its population by year’s end.
    Josh Holder, New York Times, 16 July 2021
  • So in effect, there- there will be enough vaccine doses by the month of June to immunize 300 million people, which is broadly the bulk of the US population.
    CBS News, 21 Mar. 2021
  • The walk-up site, which runs from Tuesday to Saturday each week, will soon be able to immunize 1,500 San Diegans a day — depending on supply.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Mar. 2021
  • By May, 35 percent of people in the United States were fully immunized, compared with 0.3 percent of people in Africa.
    Mark Suzman september 8, Foreign Affairs, 8 Sep. 2023
  • The health department has adopted a one-shot-at-time approach in hopes to immunize as many people as possible.
    Briah Lumpkins, The Enquirer, 6 July 2021
  • Countries are racing to immunize adults against Covid-19 and move toward a more normal future.
    Jason Douglas, WSJ, 28 Mar. 2021
  • AstraZeneca’s are part of a two-shot regimen, so those shots can immunize half as many people as doses available.
    Sabrina Siddiqui, WSJ, 11 June 2021
  • India, a vaccine-making colossus key to supplying much of the world with low-cost shots, has struggled to immunize itself.
    Todd Gillespie, Bloomberg.com, 27 Mar. 2021
  • In the past 40 years, scientists have developed ways to immunize against more than a dozen life-threatening diseases.
    Meg Kissinger, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 Aug. 2021
  • In 2010, in the American Needle case, the Supreme Court held that this joint venture structure did not immunize clubs from antitrust scrutiny.
    Chris Deubert, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
  • But families were slow to get their children immunized against the coronavirus.
    Lauren Lumpkin, Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2023
  • Castrucci argued the PSAs will help take politics out of the push to immunize America.
    Dan Diamond, Anchorage Daily News, 4 May 2021
  • The recent move, fueled by a surge in supply, is part of an effort to immunize as many people as possible against the coronavirus in a bid to slow the rate of transmission.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 May 2021

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