How to Use flu in a Sentence

flu

noun

• He came down with a bad bout of the flu.
• The first is about three ways to get rid of the flu fast.
  — Kenda Laney, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2025
• That was still much higher than the flu’s death rate of 3.7%.
  — Jason Gale, Fortune Well, 6 Apr. 2023
• The cost of a dozen — though volatile thanks to avian flu — has doubled to more than $3.
  — Rob Wile, NBC News, 14 Aug. 2024
• So far, the public health risk of avian flu, or H5N1, is low.
  — Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News, 19 June 2024
• There have been five flu deaths thus far this season in the state.
  — Shari Rudavsky, The Indianapolis Star, 16 Dec. 2024
• Wild birds, which were the source of the avian flu, are migrating north again.
  — Maria Halkias, Dallas News, 7 Apr. 2023
• Egg prices, which have been volatile after a bout of avian flu, fell 7.3%.
  — Christopher Rugaber, Fortune, 15 May 2024
• The flu shot is effective for about three to six months.
  — Maggie O'Neill, Health, 13 Feb. 2023
• Over the past decade, the death rate for flu was about 5% to 13% of those hospitalized.
  — CBS News, 2 July 2022
• But before that … This week’s must-reads: What is ‘Teflon flu’?
  — Tara Parker-Pope, Washington Post, 18 July 2024
• Egg prices have soared as a result of a deadly avian flu.
  — Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 20 Feb. 2025
• So far, uptake has been low compared with the flu shot.
  — Sabrina Malhi The Washington Post, arkansasonline.com, 30 Nov. 2024
• Pre-pandemic, fall was just a time for flu shots, if that.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 30 Aug. 2023
• In some years, the burden of RSV disease comes close to the burden of flu in the elderly.
  — Brady Knox, Washington Examiner, 3 May 2023
• Two flu viruses are known to spread among dogs around the world: one that jumped from horses and one from birds.
  — Ida Emilie Steinmark, Scientific American, 17 Mar. 2023
• Here are a few of my top takeaways about how to use food to stay healthy this cold and flu season.
  — Dana McMahan, The Courier-Journal, 12 Oct. 2022
• This goes for the common cold, the flu and viruses that could be life-threatening.
  — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 31 Oct. 2022
• In the first week of this year, 13 children died of flu, bringing this season's total to 40.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 12 Jan. 2024
• Soothing Spices Spices that are on the sweeter side may be best for flu support.
  — Cristina Mutchler, Verywell Health, 30 Oct. 2024
• That’s roughly the same approach long used to select the strains for the annual flu shot.
  — Matthew Perrone, Fortune, 24 Jan. 2023
• The flu was last detected in Missouri birds on Feb. 23.
  — Natalie Wallington, Kansas City Star, 10 Apr. 2024
• Less than half of the adult population in the US gets a flu vaccine every year.
  — Alexandra Meeks, CNN, 17 May 2023
• And mercury-free versions of the flu vaccine are now available, Brade said.
  — Nate Trela, USA TODAY, 16 May 2023
• The price of eggs, which spiked last summer due to an avian flu outbreak, has fallen nearly 8% over the past year.
  — Max Zahn, ABC News, 17 July 2023
• Tamiflu can be prescribed to treat flu in people over the age of 2 weeks old.
  — Amanda Seitz, Hartford Courant, 22 Dec. 2022
• The avian flu outbreak has killed tens of million of chickens and turkeys on farms, and the virus is able to jump to mammals.
  — Fox News, 20 July 2022
• Most people recover from the flu and Covid within a few days or a week or two.
  — Erica Sweeney, Men's Health, 20 Oct. 2022
• Egg production has been hit hard by avian flu outbreaks.
  — Faisal Kutty, Newsweek, 11 Mar. 2025
• This was also the first season since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic that flu hospitalizations surpassed those from Covid-19.
  — Deidre McPhillips, CNN, 28 Feb. 2025