How to Use virus in a Sentence

virus

noun

• The software checks your hard drive for viruses.
• Is the illness caused by bacteria or a virus?
• I think I have the virus that's going around this winter.
• African fruit bats are the reservoir hosts of the virus, the CDC said.
  — Staff and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2023
• Since then, seven more deaths have been linked to the virus.
  — Jake Frederico, The Arizona Republic, 28 Apr. 2023
• The whole immune system is there to respond to the virus.
  — Angus Chen, STAT, 8 Nov. 2023
• So, Zimmer asks, where does a virus stand on the spectrum of life?
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 17 Mar. 2023
• At least 58 million birds were slaughtered last year to limit the spread of the virus.
  — Marina Johnson, The Indianapolis Star, 5 Apr. 2024
• The spike protein is what the virus uses to attach to and infect cells.
  — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 5 Jan. 2024
• The two men meet three years after the deadly fungal virus takes over the world.
  — Sabrina Talbert, Women's Health, 30 Jan. 2023
• There is no vaccine for the virus, and the survival rate is only 20 to 30% in most cases, the zoo said.
  — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 1 July 2023
• The virus infects about 19 to 21 million people each year in the United States.
  — Kristina Behr, Parents, 1 Mar. 2024
• Amichai Lau-Lavie wants to get inside the system of Judaism like a virus.
  — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 15 June 2024
• But the farmworker hadn’t heard of the bird flu, and the clinician didn’t mention it or test for the virus.
  — Amy Maxmen, CNN, 2 Aug. 2024
• Cow udders have been identified as a hotspot for the virus.
  — Tina Reed, Axios, 2 Aug. 2024
• Yet the virus is not new, and warnings have been sounded before.
  — Megan Durisin, Fortune, 19 Dec. 2022
• Les Bleus have been ravaged by a virus that has torn though their squad in recent days.
  — Doug McIntyre, Fox News, 17 Dec. 2022
• Because the virus takes time to travel to the brain, these treatments can thwart it if given soon enough.
  — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 29 Aug. 2023
• But those of us who still face the concern of a virus that could harm or kill us are more and more isolated.
  — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 28 Mar. 2023
• The new boosters were made based on omicron variants of the virus instead of the original strain.
  — Wes Davis, The Verge, 20 Sep. 2023
• None of the workers on the mink farm became infected with the H5N1 virus, the authors report.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 24 Jan. 2023
• But the virus that causes Covid-19 has not disappeared.
  — Syra Madad, CNN, 4 Mar. 2023
• The worker has since recovered and didn’t pass the virus to anyone else, according to the CDC.
  — Natalie Wallington, Kansas City Star, 10 Apr. 2024
• May 9 was the last time the virus was detected in a backyard flock in Ionia County.
  — Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 17 June 2024
• The platform with the higher number of virus encounters?
  — Eric Griffith, PCMAG, 10 July 2023
• Dengue is an illness caused by infection with one of four dengue virus strains (dengue-1, -2, -3 or -4).
  — Stephen J. Thomas, Forbes, 18 Feb. 2024
• The avian flu virus replicates using a protein called ANP32A in chicken cells.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Oct. 2023
• The measles virus can stay in the air and infect others for up to two hours after a contagious person has left the room.
  — David Higgins, The Conversation, 1 Mar. 2024
• The cruise industry was growing before the pandemic, but took a big plunge once the virus spread.
  — Samantha Masunaga, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2024
• But keep in mind that these meds are useless if a virus, fungus, or allergen is to blame, so don’t expect a prescription in that case.
  — Katie Camero, SELF, 23 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 11 Nov 2024