How to Use inoculate in a Sentence

inoculate

verb

• Malaysia hopes to inoculate 80% of its 33 million people by the end of the year.
  — Eileen Ng, Star Tribune, 31 May 2021
• The last one, the open mind, is to inoculate you against another mess like this.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 3 July 2022
• Many of them have age cutoffs and are not set up to inoculate small kids.
  — Katia Hetter, CNN, 29 Apr. 2022
• And few bosses seem to know how to inoculate their staff against this quitagion.
  — New York Times, 21 Jan. 2022
• Deaths attributed to covid-19 have soared in parts of the force as some services struggle to inoculate their troops.
  — Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 11 Oct. 2021
• Yet the region and the nation missed their July 4 goal to inoculate enough people to draw the pandemic to a close, at least in the United States.
  — Anne Saker, The Enquirer, 16 Aug. 2021
• The companies must present a plan to inoculate at least 1,000 people per site.
  — Chronicle Staff, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 June 2021
• Indeed, 80% of mice inoculated with the chimeric virus died.
  — Dave Wessner, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2023
• Richard Campana of the University of Maine was one of the early researchers to try to create a serum to inoculate against the disease.
  — Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson, Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2022
• Catherine was the first monarch to be inoculated against smallpox, at a time when none of her European peers were willing to take the risk.
  — Lucy Ward, Foreign Affairs, 28 Feb. 2023
• No one knows quite what vaccinia is—even as it has been used to inoculate billions of people and saved hundreds of millions of lives.
  — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 26 Aug. 2022
• There is also pressure to inoculate teenagers ahead of the start of the new school year in September, to allow for in-person learning.
  — Saeed Shah, WSJ, 7 June 2021
• Dimsdale harvested the contents of a smallpox pustule from the young son of a sergeant-major and used it to inoculate Catherine.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 19 Dec. 2021
• Delta, which first emerged in India, is spreading around the globe as governments race to inoculate people.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 8 July 2021
• The shift will help Ochsner keep costs and health premiums low for employees who have decided to inoculate themselves against the virus.
  — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 4 Oct. 2021
• This vaccine worked well in lab animals, but then came the problem of how to actually inoculate raccoons in the wild.
  — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 6 Sep. 2022
• In Mexico, the president says he won’t be held hostage by vaccine makers and there are no plans to inoculate under-18s except those at risk.
  — Fox News, 13 Nov. 2021
• People have tried to inoculate soils with nitrogen-fixing bacteria in the hope that the plants and microbes would form a partnership.
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 30 Aug. 2022
• The Duck River Darter Snapper—a member of a genus that has already lost most of its species to extinction—lures and then clamps its shell shut on the head of a hapless fish, inoculating it with larvae.
  — Robert Kunzig, Scientific American, 17 Oct. 2023
• The other complications is that the ACAM vaccine uses a live, but weakened version of a virus to inoculate a person.
  — Brenda Goodman, CNN, 28 June 2022
• And even on vaccines, EU nations have so far fallen short on their promises to help inoculate poorer nations.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 15 Sep. 2021
• Its rivals and peers are now inoculated to its dangers.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2023
• Disease can survive the winter in debris and continue to inoculate your plant.
  — oregonlive, 9 Apr. 2022
• Bucharest narrowly missed a goal to inoculate just over 20 percent of its population by end May.
  — Washington Post, 30 June 2021
• But many of them are now pushing back against the government’s aggressive campaign to inoculate their young children, despite the Omicron risk.
  — Dov Lieber, WSJ, 18 Jan. 2022
• The findings throw the future of the vaccine into question as wealthy nations around the world move swiftly to inoculate their populations with shots already available.
  — Bloomberg.com, 16 June 2021
• Not being around others will inoculate you from colds, allergies, and emotional wear-and-tear.
  — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 22 Oct. 2021
• The drum and mixing paddles can handle stucco and mortar, or it can be used for mixing animal feed or inoculating seed.
  — Kate Morgan, Popular Mechanics, 26 Apr. 2023
• One of her most important and influential contributions in this arena was to allow herself and the heir to the throne, her son Paul, to be inoculated against smallpox in 1768.
  — Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 15 Jan. 2024
• Maturity and authenticity should inoculate you from some of the traps and pitfalls of youth.
  — Amy Dickinson, cleveland, 23 Dec. 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024