How to Use coronavirus in a Sentence

coronavirus

noun
  • Chevron made the deal when crude prices were down more than 30% in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.
    Michelle Chapman, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Oct. 2023
  • But, as the couple prepared to open the doors for the first time, the country was still in the very first stages of the coronavirus pandemic.
    Rebecca Angel Baer, Southern Living, 23 May 2024
  • The 2024 Summer Games will be the first to take place out from under the shadow of the coronavirus pandemic.
    Brian Steinberg, Variety, 11 May 2023
  • The first edition was pushed to late 2021, only to then be hit by the omicron variant of the coronavirus.
    Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Nov. 2022
  • The sign on the door is not a holdover from some earlier stage of the coronavirus pandemic.
    Alec MacGillis, ProPublica, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Anti-Asian hate crimes decreased for the first time since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.
    Josh Feldman, NBC News, 29 Oct. 2023
  • Soon after Helms came to the US in 2019, the world largely shut down due to the coronavirus pandemic.
    Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 20 May 2024
  • But the latest coronavirus variants can evade the drug.
    Emily Mullin, WIRED, 8 Feb. 2023
  • But the Longhorns had their trip that fall to LSU canceled by the coronavirus pandemic.
    Danny Davis, Austin American-Statesman, 22 Nov. 2024
  • In 2020, as the world shut down because of the coronavirus pandemic, Mx.
    Alix Strauss, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2024
  • Stay informed about coronavirus rates in the area and be prepared to adapt if needed.
    Andy Kessler, WSJ, 5 Mar. 2023
  • The election is the first since the U.K. left the European Union in early 2020 and since the coronavirus pandemic.
    Jack Birle, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 1 July 2024
  • The 31-year-old dreads the thought of the payments, which have been on pause since the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, resuming.
    Chris Quintana, USA TODAY, 10 May 2023
  • The show skidded off track in 2020 — canceled at the last minute because of the coronavirus outbreak — and had been stalled until now.
    James Brooks and Jamey Keaten, Quartz, 26 Feb. 2024
  • And, because of coronavirus [lockdowns], these guys grew their hair for two years.
    Michelle Lee, Peoplemag, 2 Mar. 2023
  • In early 2020, when the coronavirus was still a distant concern, my wife and I booked an AirAsia flight to Bali.
    Mac Schwerin, The Atlantic, 14 June 2023
  • The 2020 London Marathon was held on a closed-loop course because of the coronavirus pandemic.
    John Powers, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Apr. 2023
  • In the fall of 2020, before the United States presidential election, the world was still in the thick of the coronavirus pandemic.
    Lauretta Charlton, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2024
  • The ban was one of the last remaining government mandates designed to contain the spread of the coronavirus.
    Jim Turner, Sun Sentinel, 16 Nov. 2022
  • That huge census project was meant to take place in 2021, but was delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic, and has been stalled ever since.
    Rhea Mogul, CNN, 21 Sep. 2023
  • The concept was introduced to Neville by Pharrell four years ago amid the prime of the coronavirus pandemic.
    Ime Ekpo, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2024
  • At one point, Sayfullo Saipov pulled his coronavirus mask away from his face to wipe around his eyes as his father cried.
    Larry Neumeister, ajc, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Some schools may also require Covid-19 testing to make sure that what’s causing the symptoms is not the coronavirus.
    Katia Hetter, CNN, 27 Oct. 2022
  • Moran plans to wear an N95 mask on the plane, skip indoor restaurants and pack coronavirus tests and the antiviral treatment Paxlovid in her suitcase.
    Fenit Nirappil, Aara'l Yarber and Sheila Regan, Anchorage Daily News, 25 June 2023
  • The government is mailing out the coronavirus tests as the the flu season kicks off and a spike in RSV cases has been reported in some spots around the country.
    Amanda Seitz, Fortune Well, 20 Nov. 2023
  • While the rest of the world remained in lockdown, China’s hard-line approach to keeping the coronavirus in check worked well and its economy roared to life.
    Joy Dong, New York Times, 29 Nov. 2022
  • Payments had been paused for more than three years because of the coronavirus pandemic.
    Gillian Brassil, Sacramento Bee, 2 July 2024
  • The school closures were intended to slow the spread of the coronavirus, but the new paper suggests that learning deficits emerged and persisted over time.
    Jacqueline Howard, CNN, 30 Jan. 2023
  • At many stores, the huge crowds of Black Fridays past never returned after the coronavirus pandemic.
    Democrat-Gazette Staff and Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 30 Nov. 2024
  • Absenteeism, accounting for 15% of a school's score, was a key factor in the decline, as it had previously been removed from the formula to account for the coronavirus pandemic.
    Todd Karpovich, Baltimore Sun, 3 Dec. 2024

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