How to Use polio in a Sentence

polio

noun

• The last case of wild polio in the U.K. was reported in 1984.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 June 2022
• If polio struck fear in the hearts of parents, measles did not.
  — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 10 Mar. 2022
• Sushkevych, 67, had polio as a child and moves about in a wheelchair.
  — New York Times, 7 Mar. 2022
• The first time was in the mid-1940s during the polio epidemic.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Sep. 2021
• The polio vaccine has been in use in the U.S. since 1955 and is deemed safe and effective.
  — Sareen Habeshian, Axios, 16 Dec. 2024
• The damage to the joint may be in an area affected with polio.
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 20 Aug. 2021
• Ruth Alexander, his mom’s mom, had lost use of much of the right side of her body, which some thought was due to polio.
  — Matt Kempner, ajc, 22 June 2023
• The school was the first to administer the polio vaccine in 1954.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 8 Nov. 2021
• Toy will become the first polio survivor to take on the role of FDR in the musical.
  — Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 15 Nov. 2021
• The medal is named for the doctor who developed the oral polio vaccine.
  — Richard Sandomir, Chicago Tribune, 10 Nov. 2022
• Thanks to vaccines, the United States has been polio-free since 1979.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 10 June 2022
• But in 2022, traces of wild polio virus were found in wastewater in three New York counties.
  — Thomas D. Elias, Orange County Register, 17 May 2024
• Stricken with polio at six, Patrick P. Thienes began to hike to for his health.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Sep. 2021
• The trial achieved its goal: Sixty-five years later, the United States and most of the world are polio-free.
  — Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 9 Nov. 2021
• For a month since that first polio case, the CDC has clung to its testing monopoly.
  — David Axe, Rolling Stone, 22 Aug. 2022
• Adding to Gazans’ woes, doctors last week detected the first case of polio in the enclave in 25 years.
  — Jennifer Hansler, CNN, 19 Aug. 2024
• McConnell, a polio survivor, has served in the Senate since 1985.
  — Alan He, Nikole Killion, Jack Turman, CBS News, 26 July 2023
• This is on top of a surge in polio found in wastewater samples across London.
  — Ashwin Vasan, STAT, 10 Nov. 2022
• The Milwaukee school opened in 1939 to serve children with polio.
  — Amy Schwabe, Journal Sentinel, 27 Mar. 2023
• The first polio case in nearly a decade was identified in July in New York state.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 9 Sep. 2022
• The first polio case in nearly a decade was identified in July in New York State.
  — Lola Fadulu, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2022
• My father had polio and was paralyzed from the chest down.
  — Juliet Pennington, BostonGlobe.com, 12 May 2022
• Trump also sought to ease fears that Kennedy could recall the polio vaccine.
  — Mabinty Quarshie, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 16 Dec. 2024
• There hadn't been polio in Gaza for years, decades really.
  — CBS News, 6 Oct. 2024
• In the summer of 1955, an outbreak of polio hit the Boston area just months after a vaccine was approved, but not in time to stop the surge.
  — Brian Murphy, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Nov. 2022
• Will 2024 be the year the world finally stops polio transmission?
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 22 Dec. 2023
• Pakistan is one of only two countries, along with Afghanistan, where the spread of polio has never been stopped.
  — Marco Rubio, Newsweek, 1 Nov. 2024
• Right now, one of the biggest concerns is disease—polio being a big one.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 12 Sep. 2024
• For decades, scientists have tracked the spread of diseases such as polio and cholera by sampling sewage.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Aug. 2023
• The Rockland County polio case is the first identified in the United States in nearly a decade.
  — Elizabeth Cohen, CNN, 11 Aug. 2022

Last Updated: 21 Jan 2025