How to Use herpes in a Sentence

herpes

noun

• There is so much more to life and love than your herpes status.
  — Ashley Cobb, Essence, 28 May 2021
• Like a train along a track, herpes rides down tiny fibers in our nerve endings.
  — USA Today, 23 May 2022
• As with some of the blood tests, though, this sampling test still won't tell you what type of herpes virus is present.
  — Kaleigh Fasanella, Allure, 9 Mar. 2018
• And more than ever before, herpes, or HSV, doesn’t have to change your life.
  — Jenny Singer, Glamour, 6 Aug. 2021
• This leads to the biggest row of the episode, which will pop up over and over again like the case of herpes that Bimini wears down the runway.
  — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2021
• Herpes type 1 or oral herpes is a virus that causes painful cold sores on your mouth and lips.
  — Yerin Kim, Seventeen, 16 Jan. 2020
• This is because there is no cure for herpes, though there is treatment to manage the symptoms.
  — Amy Marturana, SELF, 28 Dec. 2018
• According to Johns Hopkins, 50% to 80% of adults have oral herpes.
  — Lindsey Ellefson, Glamour, 4 Nov. 2021
• My research tells me herpes CAN lie dormant for years without a flare-up.
  — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 17 Nov. 2021
• A day later, Theranos halts the use of its blood-collection vials for all but the herpes test due to pressures from the FDA.
  — Sara Ashley O'Brien, CNN, 7 Sep. 2021
• The doctor sent him home with Valtrex, an antiviral drug used to treat herpes.
  — Dominique Mosbergen, WSJ, 2 Aug. 2022
• Some of the more familiar antivirals are those developed to treat herpes, HIV and the flu.
  — Virginia Langmaid, CNN, 2 Oct. 2021
• Later, King and Boyd tested positive for the same strain of herpes, though a doctor said there was no proof that Boyd gave King the virus, court records show.
  — Gavin Off And and Ames Alexander, charlotteobserver, 31 May 2017
• The singer has also been accused of knowingly passing herpes on to at least two of his partners.
  — Jim Derogatis, The New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2021
• In another post from 2019, Kebe claimed the star had contracted herpes.
  — Bill Donahue, Billboard, 10 Jan. 2022
• Your doctor could take a blood sample to look for the presence of herpes antibodies.
  — Sophie Saint Thomas, SELF, 10 May 2019
• The rash can appear similar to syphilis and herpes, which are far more common than monkeypox.
  — Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2022
• In the next few months, Barstool published dozens of tweets, videos and blog posts accusing the actor of being racist, having herpes and stalking his ex-girlfriend.
  — Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Sep. 2022
• One such recent claim connects the shot with herpes infection.
  — Miriam Fauzia, USA TODAY, 7 May 2021
• On Friday morning, a woman who accused Kelly of giving her herpes took the stand.
  — Victoria Bekiempis, Vulture, 3 Sep. 2021
• Acyclovir is a type of antiviral used to treat chickenpox, herpes and shingles.
  — Virginia Langmaid, CNN, 2 Oct. 2021
• Now, antivirals are used to treat herpes, hepatitis, HIV, Ebola, and more.
  — Patrick Adams, National Geographic, 31 Aug. 2020
• But many people may have transient but detectable levels of human herpes virus that don’t cause symptoms.
  — Sumathi Reddy, WSJ, 13 July 2021
• In some cases, these infections also can spread through skin-to-skin intimate contact, as with herpes and HPV.
  — Jacqueline Howard, CNN, 16 Aug. 2022
• There’s a whole suite of antibiotics, from azithromycin to tobramycin, plus valacyclovir, for treating viruses like herpes.
  — Troy Farah, Ars Technica, 8 June 2020
• Oral herpes is an infection usually caused by the herpes simplex virus 1, or HSV-1.
  — Sarah Klein, Health.com, 31 Oct. 2017
• In the comments, people reportedly asked whether that was appropriate in light of the herpes rumor.
  — Macaela MacKenzie, SELF, 15 Jan. 2022
• These include a host of herpes viruses such as cytomegalovirus, a lifelong presence in 50 to 80 percent of U.S. adults; and the varicella-zoster virus, which causes chicken pox and shingles.
  — Roxanne Khamsi, The Atlantic, 17 Nov. 2021
• Epstein-Barr and its cousins, including the viruses that cause chickenpox and herpes, can hibernate inside your cells for decades.
  — Liz Szabo, CNN, 18 Oct. 2022
• Kelly could be on the hook for tens of thousands of dollars more to pay for herpes treatment and counseling for a second victim once the final tally is calculated.
  — Tom Hays, USA TODAY, 29 Sep. 2022

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024