How to Use immunize in a Sentence
immunize
verb- Many people had to be immunized after being exposed to the disease.
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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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