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
• The action is believed to have resulted from outbreaks of anthrax or charbon in Coahoma county, Miss., just across the river from Helena.
  — The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, arkansasonline.com, 17 July 2024

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024