How to Use measle in a Sentence

measle

noun

• 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
• 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
• Not so long ago, coming down with measles was seen almost as a rite of passage.
  — Jamie Ducharme, Time, 31 Oct. 2019
• 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
• 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
• They're made of denser materials and can filter out the Ebola virus and measles.
  — Ryan W. Miller, USA TODAY, 7 Mar. 2020
• This is the most since measles was declared eliminated in 2000.
  — Julie Mazziotta, PEOPLE.com, 16 July 2019
• Billy's helping get the word out that just like the measles, the Jobros are officially back.
  — Jasmine Gomez, Seventeen, 21 May 2019
• In one such study, his team discovered that mumps, which like measles is caused by a paramyxovirus, had jumped to humans from bats.
  — Kai Kupferschmidt, Science | AAAS, 28 Apr. 2020
• The model the team used is the same one that statisticians use to predict and prevent the spread of infectious diseases such as measles.
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 31 Oct. 2019
• Fifty-three people have died from measles, and the outbreak was declared an emergency on Nov. 15.
  — Jamie Ducharme, Time, 2 Dec. 2019
• Cases of measles have been found in three of the four states that border Wisconsin — Illinois, Iowa and Michigan.
  — Molly Beck, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 19 June 2019
• The United States is now on the verge of losing its status as a nation in which measles has been eliminated.
  — Gregory A. Poland, STAT, 14 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024