How to Use coronavirus in a Sentence

coronavirus

noun
  • But the latest coronavirus variants can evade the drug.
    Emily Mullin, WIRED, 8 Feb. 2023
  • At one point, Sayfullo Saipov pulled his coronavirus mask away from his face to wipe around his eyes as his father cried.
    Larry Neumeister, ajc, 23 Feb. 2023
  • The rate at which coronavirus tests are coming back positive is falling in California.
    Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 23 Sep. 2024
  • The formal end of the emergency comes as wastewater coronavirus detections have recently been on the rise, but so far have remained five times lower than the peak seen last winter.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Feb. 2023
  • And other combination flu-coronavirus tests typically require that samples be sent to a lab for analysis.
    Laurie McGinley, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Feb. 2023
  • Plans for modernization come as the airport works to recruit and retain passengers following a sharp decline during the coronavirus pandemic.
    Kristin J. Bender, The Mercury News, 15 Sep. 2024
  • Chevron made the deal when crude prices were down more than 30% in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.
    Michelle Chapman, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Oct. 2023
  • But, as the couple prepared to open the doors for the first time, the country was still in the very first stages of the coronavirus pandemic.
    Rebecca Angel Baer, Southern Living, 23 May 2024
  • The 2024 Summer Games will be the first to take place out from under the shadow of the coronavirus pandemic.
    Brian Steinberg, Variety, 11 May 2023
  • The sign on the door is not a holdover from some earlier stage of the coronavirus pandemic.
    Alec MacGillis, ProPublica, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Anti-Asian hate crimes decreased for the first time since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.
    Josh Feldman, NBC News, 29 Oct. 2023
  • Soon after Helms came to the US in 2019, the world largely shut down due to the coronavirus pandemic.
    Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 20 May 2024
  • In 2020, as the world shut down because of the coronavirus pandemic, Mx.
    Alix Strauss, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2024
  • Stay informed about coronavirus rates in the area and be prepared to adapt if needed.
    Andy Kessler, WSJ, 5 Mar. 2023
  • The election is the first since the U.K. left the European Union in early 2020 and since the coronavirus pandemic.
    Jack Birle, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 1 July 2024
  • The 31-year-old dreads the thought of the payments, which have been on pause since the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, resuming.
    Chris Quintana, USA TODAY, 10 May 2023
  • The show skidded off track in 2020 — canceled at the last minute because of the coronavirus outbreak — and had been stalled until now.
    James Brooks and Jamey Keaten, Quartz, 26 Feb. 2024
  • And, because of coronavirus [lockdowns], these guys grew their hair for two years.
    Michelle Lee, Peoplemag, 2 Mar. 2023
  • In early 2020, when the coronavirus was still a distant concern, my wife and I booked an AirAsia flight to Bali.
    Mac Schwerin, The Atlantic, 14 June 2023
  • The 2020 London Marathon was held on a closed-loop course because of the coronavirus pandemic.
    John Powers, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Apr. 2023
  • In the fall of 2020, before the United States presidential election, the world was still in the thick of the coronavirus pandemic.
    Lauretta Charlton, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2024
  • That huge census project was meant to take place in 2021, but was delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic, and has been stalled ever since.
    Rhea Mogul, CNN, 21 Sep. 2023
  • Moran plans to wear an N95 mask on the plane, skip indoor restaurants and pack coronavirus tests and the antiviral treatment Paxlovid in her suitcase.
    Fenit Nirappil, Aara'l Yarber and Sheila Regan, Anchorage Daily News, 25 June 2023
  • The government is mailing out the coronavirus tests as the the flu season kicks off and a spike in RSV cases has been reported in some spots around the country.
    Amanda Seitz, Fortune Well, 20 Nov. 2023
  • Payments had been paused for more than three years because of the coronavirus pandemic.
    Gillian Brassil, Sacramento Bee, 2 July 2024
  • Because of the coronavirus pandemic, the building was closed at the time to the public and members of the news media who regularly cover the court.
    Mark Sherman, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Despite being ready to tie the knot in May 2020, the couple had to reschedule their big day multiple times amid the coronavirus pandemic.
    Jennifer Nied, Women's Health, 15 June 2023
  • That was an election about the coronavirus pandemic, about George Floyd protests, things that were happening here.
    ABC News, 8 Oct. 2023
  • And apart from during the coronavirus pandemic when the court was closed, the justices almost always read summaries of their opinions in the courtroom.
    Mark Sherman, Fortune, 4 Mar. 2024
  • The rate at which reported coronavirus tests are coming back positive is up statewide — to 14%.
    Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2023

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