How to Use immunize in a Sentence

immunize

verb
  • Many people had to be immunized after being exposed to the disease.
  • One by one, Livieri and his team aim to catch and immunize them all.
    Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 15 June 2023
  • Teenagers and adults who have not yet been immunized need one dose.
    Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2024
  • One of the easiest ways to prevent a bout of flu is to get immunized.
    Laura Daily and Bryan K. Chavez, The Know, 5 Nov. 2019
  • State health officials say the goal is to immunize at least 70% of Michiganders by the end of the year.
    Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 3 Mar. 2021
  • Utah law requires pet dogs, cats and ferrets to be immunized against the virus.
    Jordan Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 Sep. 2023
  • The state expects to have enough vaccines to immunize at least 75% of all seniors by March 29.
    oregonlive, 26 Feb. 2021
  • The county has stepped up its efforts to immunize the public.
    Nic Garcia, Dallas News, 21 Jan. 2020
  • This is the study of finding ways to immunize people against virus diseases.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 June 2022
  • Here's what to know—along with if, and when, you might be recommended to get immunized.
    Alice Park, TIME, 27 June 2024
  • That number is less than ten percent needed to immunize the state’s healthcare workers for the first phase of the plan.
    al, 6 Dec. 2020
  • As of May, barely half of the country was fully immunized.
    Larry Brilliant, Foreign Affairs, 8 June 2021
  • Therefore, our assumption has been that there is a plan in place to immunize.
    CBS News, 3 Jan. 2021
  • The company expects to ship out enough shots to immunize 20 million people by the end of March.
    Cassidy Morrison, Washington Examiner, 25 Feb. 2021
  • São Paulo’s government plans to use the vaccine to immunize the state, home to a fifth of Brazil’s population, by the end of July.
    Luciana Magalhaes, WSJ, 23 Dec. 2020
  • Even a bland name, however, might not immunize the WHO against blowback.
    Benjamin Mazer, The Atlantic, 17 Aug. 2022
  • With global vaccine supplies still tight, much of the world is struggling to immunize adults.
    Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 24 July 2021
  • Giroir predicts that the United States should have enough vaccine to immunize 20 million Americans by the end of the year.
    Washington Post, 29 Nov. 2020
  • The shot was given to children in Washington, D.C., but 80% of those immunized became sick and two children died from the shots.
    Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 22 June 2023
  • But experts say 11 billion are needed to immunize the world.
    Anchorage Daily News, 8 July 2021
  • Prior to the onset of the war in Gaza, 99 percent of residents were immunized against polio.
    Saima S. Iqbal, Scientific American, 26 Sep. 2024
  • President Biden has promised enough doses by the end of May to immunize all of the nation’s roughly 260 million adults.
    BostonGlobe.com, 26 Mar. 2021
  • Measles is a virus that can be highly contagious for people who haven't been immunized against it.
    John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 22 Apr. 2024
  • Rates are stalling in most low-income countries well short of the W.H.O.’s goal to immunize 70 percent of people in every nation.
    New York Times, 23 Apr. 2022
  • One way of forcing R down is to immunize the population.
    Samanth Subramanian, Quartz, 4 June 2021
  • None of the nine people who came down with measles was immunized, according to health officials.
    oregonlive.com, 19 Aug. 2019
  • Some of the gap results from parents unable or unwilling to share records with the schools, and not because their children are not immunized, Dr. Hahn said.
    Apoorva Mandavilli, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2024
  • Why do kids need to be immunized if a disease has been eliminated?
    Anna Borges, SELF, 26 Aug. 2019
  • The goal of this thought experiment is to highlight the immense power of vaccines and the impetus to immunize.
    Zach Nayer, STAT, 17 Dec. 2020
  • Indeed, nothing short of a deep state immunized from law and external politics would be willing and able to undertake it.
    Jon D. Michaels, Foreign Affairs, 10 June 2024

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