How to Use anthrax in a Sentence

anthrax

noun

• The kid got anthrax about four or five years ago and died.
  — Jeff Goodell, Rolling Stone, 26 May 2021
• Which brings us to the scene in the barn where Peter infects Phil with the anthrax.
  — Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2021
• That’s not to say that North Korea wouldn’t use anthrax in a war.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 20 Dec. 2017
• Those were the last anthrax attacks in the United States.
  — New York Times, 6 Mar. 2021
• In the Namib Desert, three cheetahs who ate the same zebra died of anthrax.
  — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 23 Nov. 2021
• Like the destruction of the World Trade Center, the anthrax scare was right in my face.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 18 Mar. 2020
• For two years, Gruinard and its flocks of sheep were bombed with anthrax.
  — Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 1 Apr. 2017
• But in the autumn of 2001, the response to anthrax swamped public health.
  — Maryn McKenna, Wired, 4 Oct. 2021
• Clinics have had acid poured through their mail slots and received anthrax through the mail.
  — Rebecca Grant, Cosmopolitan, 26 June 2017
• At least five envelopes full of anthrax spores were mailed to politicians and the media.
  — Alicia Ault, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 June 2020
• Bacillus cereus, a cousin to the more widely known and feared Bacillus antracis, or anthrax.
  — Raquel Rutledge, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 29 Nov. 2010
• The first vaccines using this approach date to the 1870s, against anthrax and rabies.
  — Brenda Goodman, CNN, 3 Apr. 2023
• Drought, floods and winds can spread anthrax spores to grazing livestock.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 29 Sep. 2022
• During the morning of the memorial service, New York was awash in the fresh fear of an anthrax scare.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2020
• In the series, Goldwyn plays Dr. Bruce Ivins, the man accused of growing the anthrax spores that proved to be fatal.
  — Kelly Wynne, PEOPLE.com, 23 Nov. 2021
• Or getting sent anthrax and having some of it fall on his baby.
  — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 16 Oct. 2023
• Back in 2001, Leendertz and his colleagues thought the chimps had died of the familiar form of anthrax, caused by B. anthracis.
  — Kai Kupferschmidt, Science | AAAS, 2 Aug. 2017
• There were four anthrax and bioterrorism threats in 2022.
  — Christine Fernando, USA TODAY, 11 May 2023
• But anthrax, which is not a virus, isn’t unique to Siberia and is unlikely to cause widespread pandemics.
  — Michael Birnbaum and Ellen Francis, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Dec. 2022
• Over the years, Fort Detrick has housed some of the world’s deadliest substances, from the Ebola virus to nerve gas to anthrax.
  — Colin Campbell, baltimoresun.com, 21 July 2021
• The 9/11 attacks and the anthrax scare that followed underscored the need for sweeping new actions to keep the country safe.
  — Patricia Callahan, ProPublica, 30 Mar. 2020
• The Russians sent in a team and the team was horrified to discover that anthrax spores that had been dormant had come back to life.
  — Jeff Goodell, Rolling Stone, 26 May 2021
• Yes, there were those scares about anthrax and the lingering worry that any public space could be hit next.
  — Bonnie Kristian, The Week, 10 Mar. 2022
• Human deaths from anthrax in the U.S. are extremely rare.
  — Eli Meixler, Time, 9 Oct. 2017
• Farther down were some names from pandemics past—cholera, anthrax.
  — Nicola Twille, Wired, 6 July 2021
• Lorne Michaels: The anthrax happened the week that Drew Barrymore hosted.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 8 Sep. 2021
• These labs are designed to handle sometimes-fatal pathogens such as plague and anthrax and the viruses that cause covid-19 and West Nile fever.
  — Joby Warrick, Washington Post, 10 Apr. 2023
• Last summer, the first fatal Russian outbreak of anthrax in 75 years killed a child and sickened 20.
  — CBS News, 19 Oct. 2017
• One such anecdote saw his daughter being rushed to the hospital after being exposed to a white powder that was mailed to his home and briefly believed to be anthrax.
  — Shania Russell, EW.com, 18 Sep. 2023
• As for his stories about law enforcement and his daughter being taken to the hospital after she was exposed to what turned out to be fake anthrax powder mailed to his apartment, Minhaj apologized for blurring the lines between fact and fiction.
  — EW.com, 26 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 31 Oct 2024