How to Use measle in a Sentence

measle

noun

• The measles virus hangs in the air for up to two hours.
  — Nina Shapiro, The Seattle Times, 1 Apr. 2019
• This has already been the worst year for measles in the U.S. in decades.
  — CBS News, 23 Aug. 2019
• As a result, measles returned to Gaza in 2020 for the first time in decades.
  — Erika Edwards, NBC News, 21 Oct. 2023
• This is the third case of measles confirmed in Kentucky over the last three months.
  — Rebekah Riess, CNN, 25 Feb. 2023
• But a case of measles was identified and linked to the revival.
  — Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 27 Feb. 2023
• A lot of the nation's measles cases have happened in the last three months.
  — Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 12 Apr. 2024
• Not long ago, the nation that saw that many measles cases in a whole year.
  — Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2019
• Over the next few months, measles spread to 125 people across seven states.
  — Jenny Gold, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2024
• The news comes as the country grapples with its worst measles outbreak in decades.
  — Soumya Karlamangla, latimes.com, 9 July 2019
• No staffers have shown signs of the mumps so far, and 1,000 doses of the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine will be sent to the jail.
  — Doug Criss, CNN, 12 June 2019
• There were two measles cases in San Diego County in 2017 and none last year.
  — Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 June 2019
• In later episodes of his TV show, Oz would go on to endorse the measles, mumps, rubella shot.
  — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 19 Nov. 2024
• One was the True Knot contracting measles from one of their victims.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 8 Nov. 2019
• For the measles, that proportion is as high as 95%, Rutherford said.
  — Mallory Moench, SFChronicle.com, 11 Apr. 2020
• Thanks to all those shots in the arm, in the year 2000, measles in the United States was declared eliminated.
  — Jon Lapook, CBS News, 15 Sep. 2024
• Two doses of vaccine can prevent measles, the WHO said.
  — Jonathan Limehouse, The Courier-Journal, 26 Mar. 2024
• In the living room, plaster surfaces are spotted with green and black mold, as if the house has measles.
  — Nathaniel Penn, Popular Mechanics, 3 June 2019
• The last reported case of the measles in Houston was in 2013, according to the paper.
  — Madeline Farber, Fox News, 29 Aug. 2018
• Not so long ago, coming down with measles was seen almost as a rite of passage.
  — Jamie Ducharme, Time, 31 Oct. 2019
• Many are living on the streets of the state’s cities and towns, and the influx has been linked to a measles outbreak in Brazil, with 300 cases in Roraima.
  — Sarah Dilorenzo, The Seattle Times, 28 Aug. 2018
• This is important right now, as measles outbreaks in the U.S. are reaching a 25-year high.
  — Lydia Wang, refinery29.com, 25 June 2019
• Rockland County, just north of New York City, has seen 167 cases of measles.
  — Ryan Blethen, The Seattle Times, 13 Apr. 2019
• But what came out of that was actually the measles outbreak.
  — Recode Staff, Recode, 14 July 2018
• The native of Lehigh County, Pennsylvania died of measles and had only served in the Army about 60 days, the same source said.
  — Erica Lamberg, Fox News, 15 June 2023
• The story begins in Brooklyn in 1914, with Ederle struck down by the measles.
  — The Week Uk, theweek, 6 June 2024
• Few people would disagree that measles, say, is a disease.
  — Shahid Merali, Quartz, 30 July 2019
• In the United States, 1,276 measles cases have been reported this year alone.
  — Erika Edwards, NBC News, 23 Dec. 2019
• But everyone knows friends who have lost children to measles.
  — Paul Law, STAT, 12 Mar. 2024
• About 40% of the people with measles were hospitalized with complications.
  — Erika Edwards, NBC News, 4 Nov. 2024
• Even Ladapo’s outlandish choice last winter to allow unvaccinated kids back into a school with an active measles outbreak did not lead to any further cases of disease.
  — Daniel Engber, The Atlantic, 20 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024