How to Use strep in a Sentence

strep

noun

• The strep and staph that Schmidt’s team found had been there for years, maybe decades.
  — Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 16 Mar. 2023
• The last pediatric death from group A strep in the state was in 2018.
  — Vanessa Etienne, Peoplemag, 19 Dec. 2022
• Stone was home with strep throat, but VF.com was there with cough drops.
  — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 3 Jan. 2017
• The girl was diagnosed with strep throat and a high fever and stayed home from school the rest of the week.
  — Josh Verges, Twin Cities, 31 May 2017
• Among pathogens, group A strep is something of a Swiss Army knife.
  — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian, 3 Dec. 2019
• Johnson wasn't able to wait, though, and he was tested for strep and flu.
  — Amir Vera, CNN, 20 Nov. 2020
• After a bout of strep that fall, my throat remained sore and swollen.
  — Francesca Fontana, WSJ, 16 Oct. 2020
• Thames hit his 13th homer on May 9, then was slowed by a hamstring injury and strep throat.
  — Associated Press, courant.com, 31 May 2017
• Group A streptococcus, the same bug that causes strep throat.
  — Amanda MacMillan, Health.com, 24 July 2017
• Worthley was feeling lousy, too, so she got tested for strep.
  — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 13 Nov. 2020
• Then, at the end of September, about a month after her kids started in-person school, her 10-year-old came down with strep.
  — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 13 Nov. 2020
• Amoxicillin has also been used to treat a rise in severe strep cases dating to the fall.
  — Aria Bendix, NBC News, 27 Apr. 2023
• The next day Josiah was taken to the emergency room and was tested for flu, Covid-19, and strep, but all three were negative.
  — Lauren M. Johnson, CNN, 28 Sep. 2020
• These strep bacteria eat sugars from starchy foods, such as roots, seeds and tubers.
  — Kate Wong, Scientific American, 25 June 2024
• CV started Emily Mulcahey, who is still suffering from strep throat, kept the Bulldogs off the board in the bottom of the frame.
  — Nathan Cambridge, Glendale News-Press, 4 May 2017
• It is found most everywhere, from water and mud to hospitals, but is not as common a cause of the disease as strep.
  — Todd Ackerman, Houston Chronicle, 23 Oct. 2017
• Hospital staff tested the boy for strep, diagnosed him with a common cold and gave him Tylenol, the timeline said.
  — Dan Frosch, WSJ, 26 Dec. 2018
• This year, Bryant said, some children have been infected with the flu along with invasive Group A strep disease.
  — Ana Rocío Álvarez Bríñez, The Courier-Journal, 20 Dec. 2022
• The patient had recently returned from New York with a fever and cough, but tested negative for flu and strep.
  — Allie Morris, Dallas News, 12 Mar. 2020
• As a precaution, I was tested for strep, influenza, and Covid-19.
  — Lauren Hines, STAT, 27 Nov. 2020
• Lymph nodes in the gut may become inflamed during a strep infection, causing pain in small children.
  — Erika Edwards, NBC News, 28 Oct. 2023
• Viruses can also spread on phones if one person is sick with strep throat or influenza and coughs on their cell phone before handing it off to a friend.
  — Abigail Abrams, Time, 23 Aug. 2017
• Left untreated, strep can turn into the full-body infection known as rheumatic fever, and the bacteria can then damage the heart.
  — Ed Stannard, Hartford Courant, 28 Feb. 2023
• The vest comes with attached arm bands, a safety shoulder harness and an adjustable chest strep, plus a quick release safety buckle.
  — Kathleen Willcox, Popular Mechanics, 15 June 2022
• First, doctors need to figure out if there are specific strains of group A strep that are more likely to cause necrotizing fasciitis.
  — National Geographic, 3 Oct. 2017
• Historically, researchers have linked group A strep to the spread of chickenpox.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 10 Mar. 2023
• She has been tested for strep and flu, treated for thrush and checked for less common ailments that might cause this cluster of symptoms, but all have come back negative.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 11 June 2020
• How did repeated strep infection alter the integrity of the BBB?
  — Pamela Weintraub, Discover Magazine, 3 Jan. 2019
• Having rapid tests such as those currently available for strep and influenza would be ideal, Box said.
  — Shari Rudavsky, Indianapolis Star, 29 Apr. 2020
• Parks, 27, a special education teacher in Springfield, Illinois, was about 18 weeks pregnant and had been feeling very sick with a fever for days, but tests for Covid and strep came back negative.
  — Anne Thompson, NBC News, 15 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Jan 2025