How to Use infected in a Sentence

infected

adjective

• The virus can live for up to two hours in the air where the infected person was present.
  — Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 23 Feb. 2024
• The infected area may also need to be opened and drained.
  — Dr. Roshini Raj, Health, 26 May 2023
• The team has found two more infected birds since the study ended.
  — Apoorva Mandavilli, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2024
• In the video game, Last of Us players kill infected people by the dozen.
  — Will Bedingfield, WIRED, 12 Jan. 2023
• The injured or infected site gets swollen, red and warm.
  — Elana Spivack, Scientific American, 21 June 2023
• The illness required her to have surgery to remove the infected parts of her spine.
  — Cara Lynn Shultz, Peoplemag, 5 July 2023
• Trent Pierce had surgery on an infected ear, but returned before the end of the season.
  — Calum McAndrew, Kansas City Star, 13 May 2024
• Dispose of infected cuttings in the trash rather than the compost pile.
  — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 3 Oct. 2024
• Feathers from infected birds are known to carry the H5N1 virus.
  — Brenda Goodman, CNN, 16 July 2024
• The most common way to become infected is to breathe in the infected droplets through your mouth or nose.
  — Anna Halkidis, Parents, 16 June 2023
• In all, the method requires workers to have a high degree of contact with the infected birds, going from bird to bird and batch to batch with the carts.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 17 July 2024
• The bacteria causes lesions on the leaves, stems and fruit of infected trees.
  — J. Scott Trubey, ajc, 14 June 2022
• Half of the people exposed in one household can become infected, the CDC said.
  — Eduardo Cuevas, USA TODAY, 14 Aug. 2024
• There were no other cases found among close contacts of the infected woman, the WHO said.
  — Fox News, 12 Apr. 2023
• Samples of the virus taken from the Texas patient as well as from a handful of infected cows have been sequenced.
  — Sara G. Miller, NBC News, 4 Apr. 2024
• There wasn’t soap to wash our hands between infected wounds with maggots.
  — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 16 May 2024
• These droplets can remain in the air an hour after an infected person coughs.
  — Eduardo Cuevas, USA TODAY, 9 July 2024
• Among them: the Hotel Grand and a series of tunnels and labyrinths in which guests will encounter both the infected and hostile humans.
  — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2023
• Farmers are required to dispose of eggs and meat from infected birds.
  — Meg Wingerter, The Denver Post, 8 May 2024
• In both cases, I was exposed while dining with the infected person, who may have been asymptomatic at the time of the meal.
  — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2023
• The story goes that during the plagues that swept across Europe in the Middle Ages, Kotor brought a handful of cats into the walled city to kill the infected rats.
  — Meagan Drillinger, Travel + Leisure, 24 Feb. 2024
• There was one human case last year in the United States, a Colorado man who got sick after culling infected birds.
  — Jen Christensen, CNN, 10 Mar. 2023
• The bacteria can live in the stools of infected people for up to a few weeks, even after their diarrhea has gone away.
  — Mira Miller, Verywell Health, 21 Mar. 2023
• The court order goes on to suggest the FBI developed a way to hijack the botnet, and identify the infected routers.
  — Michael Kan, PCMAG, 31 Jan. 2024
• Also, make sure to wipe front to back so that any breaks in the skin do not become infected with bacteria that are pulled forward.
  — Ashley Martens, Women's Health, 18 Aug. 2023
• When an infected or recently sick swimmer takes a dip, oocysts can enter the pool.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 26 Oct. 2023
• But no matter how diseased, do *not* call the infected zombies.
  — Leah Campano, Seventeen, 15 Feb. 2023
• An infected bite can be red warm or include a red streak spreading outward.
  — Alex Groth, Journal Sentinel, 8 June 2023
• Research suggests that incredible amounts of virus are shed in infected cows’ mammary glands, so the virus could spread through raw milk.
  — Evan Bush, NBC News, 22 Oct. 2024
• It can, however, be spread through contact with an infected person’s bodily fluids.
  — Addy Bink, The Hill, 29 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 24 Nov 2024