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
  • If you haven't been immunized against HPV yet, talk to your doctor about it.
    Carolyn Twersky, Seventeen, 13 Sep. 2018
  • 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
  • Many of those who became sick were not immunized against measles.
    Hannah Yasharoff, USA TODAY, 29 May 2019
  • 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
  • If a person with measles walks through a room with a hundred people who are not immunized, up to 90 of them will get the disease.
    Adam Rogers, WIRED, 24 June 2019
  • Even Cheatley and her partner, both immunized, were asked to wear masks.
    Nina Shapiro, The Seattle Times, 1 Apr. 2019
  • 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
  • Physicians say that 95% of children must be immunized to prevent the spread of the most contagious diseases, such as measles.
    Melody Gutierrez, latimes.com, 1 July 2019
  • The State of Texas requires all students to be immunized before starting school.
    Kaila Contreras, Houston Chronicle, 19 July 2019
  • 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
  • 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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