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"Infect" in a Sentence (16 examples)
Infect the area with cholera.
The virus can easily infect a healthy person.
"Tom, a brain worm is starting to infect tuna in the world's oceans," said Mary. "I'm not sure if that is true or if I just made that up. Maybe I have brain worms."
New studies by the Global Virome Project, a worldwide effort to increase preparedness for pandemics, indicate the world can expect about five new animal-borne pathogens to infect humans each year, creating a sense of urgency to curb the wild animal trade.
Studies indicate that the world can expect about five new animal-borne pathogens to infect humans each year.
Making matters worse, schools often sent the sickest children home to infect families and communities.
It can infect a person if they drink water or put something in their mouth that contains the microbe.
You're not going to infect me with an illness that doesn't exist.
A new study has, for the first time, demonstrated that a specific kind of virotherapy can infect and kill cancer in humans, leaving healthy cells unharmed.
Indeed the vulture is of real service in this respect, for he clears the carrion away from the hot countries he inhabits, which would otherwise putrify and infect the air.
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Not everyone will be infected when an epidemic strikes.
Bats host many high-profile viruses that can infect humans, including severe acute respiratory syndrome and Ebola.
Ms. Tang’s inevitable contact with people who are ill has started to worry her. It did not help when she learned that someone living in a building near her own, in Siu Sai Wan, had been infected by the virus.
Her passion for dancing has infected me.
Guido, by way of diverting the embarrassment which seemed to infect them all, began to unfasten the packet of letters.
And in the imitation of these twain, / Who, as Ulysses says, opinion crowns / With an imperial voice, many are infect.
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