How to Use antigen in a Sentence

antigen

noun

• An antigen test is one type of test that can detect the virus.
  — Lisa Schencker, chicagotribune.com, 21 Sep. 2021
• None of the at-home rapid antigen tests available over the counter in the U.S. are designed for throat swabs.
  — NBC News, 14 Jan. 2022
• For rapid antigen tests, serial testing is the name of the game.
  — Sumathi Reddy, WSJ, 29 Aug. 2022
• Each home in the U.S. has until Friday, Sept. 2 to order the free rapid antigen test.
  — Leada Gore | [e-mail], al, 30 Aug. 2022
• Right now, the fastest and easiest tests to run are rapid antigen tests.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 June 2021
• Results will be valid for 72 hours for a PCR test and six hours for an antigen test.
  — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 26 Mar. 2021
• The groups depend on the presence or absence of antigens A and B on the surface of your blood.
  — Korin Miller, Health, 22 June 2024
• The two main types of coronavirus tests are PCR and antigen tests.
  — Madison Yauger, Health.com, 24 Jan. 2022
• The feds will send eight rapid antigen tests to any address in the country that requests them.
  — oregonlive, 17 May 2022
• Either an antigen test or a PCR test could be used at this point.
  — Katia Hetter, CNN, 8 Feb. 2023
• People who use a rapid antigen test must take it within 24 hours of the event.
  — Christine Mai-Duc, WSJ, 13 Dec. 2021
• Authorized over-the-counter at-home rapid antigen tests can range in cost from about $20 to $35.
  — Washington Post, 28 Aug. 2021
• Other kits use antigen tests, which look for proteins on the surface of the virus.
  — Sarah Jacoby, SELF, 23 Dec. 2020
• The rapid antigen tests take about 30 minutes to give results.
  — Deidre McPhillips, CNN, 26 Sep. 2024
• One way to do that is to repeat the antigen at-home tests to have more confidence in the result.
  — Alice Park, Time, 27 Apr. 2021
• The CareStart antigen home test shows your results in 10 minutes.
  — Samantha Jones, Health.com, 8 Dec. 2021
• After openly mocking the idea, the White House now has a plan to send free at-home covid-19 rapid antigen tests.
  — Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 23 Dec. 2021
• The Giants encourage fans to take a PCR-type test, not a rapid antigen test.
  — Ron Kroichick, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Apr. 2021
• And those are the exact people these antigen tests are designed to find.
  — Alice Park, Time, 27 Apr. 2021
• According to the website, these are rapid antigen tests and are not PCR tests.
  — Adam Terro, The Arizona Republic, 8 Mar. 2022
• Celebrity will charge guests $178 per person for the antigen tests.
  — Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 23 June 2021
• The value of antigen tests is based on a simple tradeoff.
  — Whet Moser, The Atlantic, 13 Jan. 2021
• Rapid antigen tests are now one of the hottest commodities in town after they were all but sold out at stores.
  — David Pierson, New York Times, 13 Dec. 2022
• In a change, providers will be able to administer both PCR and antigen tests.
  — Dominic Fracassa, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Feb. 2022
• The most common is an antigen test, which hunts for pieces of viral proteins.
  — Brianna Abbott, WSJ, 14 Jan. 2022
• The rapid test is an easy-to-use antigen test that detects the virus when people are most infectious.
  — cleveland, 12 Mar. 2021
• There are four ways to test for H. pylori: a urea breath test, a stool antigen test, an upper endoscopy, and a blood test.
  — Elizabeth Yuko, Health, 26 Sep. 2024
• There are now 14 authorizations of over-the-counter rapid antigen tests, compared with around a half-dozen at the end of the summer.
  — New York Times, 2 Feb. 2022
• These antigen tests, often called rapid tests, detect proteins called antigens from the virus that causes Covid-19.
  — Sam Tupper, CNN, 30 Oct. 2024
• The study focused on antigens, or substances in vaccines that help the body produce disease-fighting antibodies, given to a baby during the first two years of life.
  — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 16 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Mar 2025