How to Use communicable in a Sentence

communicable

adjective

• The bubonic plague, caused by the Yersinia pestis bacteria, is believed to be the deadliest of these communicable cataclysms.
  — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 30 Sep. 2021
• Smallpox and the spread of communicable disease was very much on the minds of the school systems in Maryland in this era.
  — Kevin Dayhoff, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 26 Mar. 2021
• Sitting near the aisle puts passengers in the line of fire of any communicable viruses that could break out on the plane.
  — Julia Zorthian, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2017
• The last step is a medical check to ensure refugees will not spread a communicable disease in the U.S.
  — Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News, 27 Apr. 2022
• The regulations were put in place as a way to prevent the spread of communicable diseases.
  — Erin Hegarty, Naperville Sun, 7 June 2019
• Donors have blood tests and are screened for communicable diseases as well as risky behavior.
  — Kenneth Willardt, Harper's BAZAAR, 14 Dec. 2017
• In fact, Arizona tribes aren't required by law to report communicable diseases to the state, although many do.
  — Chelsea Curtis, azcentral, 4 June 2020
• Bushmeat comes from wild animals in certain parts of the world like Africa and may pose communicable disease risk.
  — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 13 Jan. 2022
• By 2005, the FDA had three rules in place that ensured sperm donations were tested for communicable diseases and that sperm banks maintained records on donors.
  — Molly Sullivan, sacbee, 17 Sep. 2017
• Over the last decade there has been growing concern that so much of the way health systems are structured across Africa is set up to handle communicable diseases like malaria.
  — Uwagbale Edward-Ekpu, Quartz Africa, 16 Nov. 2020
• In Asia, mask wearing has been widely accepted as a way to prevent the spread of communicable diseases.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 27 Mar. 2021
• In recent years, concerns about communicable bird diseases have caused the owners to close the farm to tours and take extra precautions in handling the turkeys.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 27 Nov. 2019
• But unlike horseshoes and hand grenades, close doesn't cut it for communicable diseases.
  — Peter Weber, The Week, 20 Aug. 2022
• Ebola is among the most high profile of these communicable diseases.
  — Aryn Baker, Time, 17 Apr. 2020
• Cox said some detainees come from countries where communicable diseases are less controlled than in the U.S. and carry with them the risk of spreading infection.
  — Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2019
• So, barring any other run-ins with fast-spreading communicable illnesses, the show will go on.
  — oregonlive, 18 Apr. 2022
• Outbreaks of communicable diseases, such as cholera, in the 19th century led to claims that the Graham diet helped to both prevent and treat infection.
  — Kevin Klatt, SELF, 26 June 2018
• In the cold tank, during Fowles’s microbiology trimester, the two had a long talk about communicable diseases and whether a mortician might catch one from a corpse.
  — Joan Niesen, SI.com, 8 Aug. 2019
• For me, wanting to bail out of my job as a primary care physician has nothing to do with the risk of contracting Covid-19 or any other communicable disease.
  — Russell Johnson, STAT, 7 Feb. 2023
• The steps needed to control a Covid-19 outbreak within a school would be similar to steps taken for any outbreak of a communicable disease in a school, such as measles, Schaffner said.
  — Leah Asmelash, CNN, 12 Aug. 2021
• Even the act of fleeing can put people in environments that give communicable diseases the upper hand.
  — Karen Kaplanscience and Medicine Editor, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2022
• Hou Vang, a county communicable disease specialist, asks a pregnant woman standing in the shade of a tree outside her home.
  — Kristen Hwang, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Oct. 2022
• The prisons’ over-crowding and under-resourced system, Willis said, amounts to a breeding ground for communicable diseases.
  — Megan Cassidy, SFChronicle.com, 11 Aug. 2020
• In at least three recent Olympic games, highly communicable diseases have become as much a part of the story line as gold medal counts and crazy athletic costuming.
  — Jenny Deam, Houston Chronicle, 20 Feb. 2018
• Among them was Jim Murphy, a veteran of almost 33 years at the state’s Department of Health and head of its communicable diseases division.
  — Mollie Simon, ProPublica, 7 Sep. 2022
• At the time, medical science was ill-equipped to manage rising rates of communicable disease, leaving art to help fill a need to comprehend and process illness.
  — Elizabeth Lee, The Conversation, 31 July 2020
• In this age of super bugs and global travel, most countries have stringent plans for how to contain communicable diseases such as the coronavirus.
  — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 30 Jan. 2020
• All received some share of the blame this week from conservative media figures for the growing public concern over the coronavirus, the communicable disease that has spread across the globe.
  — Paul Farhi, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2020
• That also would increase the risk of communicable diseases.
  — Sophia Tareen, Star Tribune, 2 Nov. 2020
• Health care workers are now seeing whole families fall critically ill due to the highly communicable nature of the delta variant and the region’s low vaccination rate.
  — Juliet Linderman and Claire Galofaro, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Sep. 2021

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024