How to Use incubation period in a Sentence

incubation period

noun

• The idea is to get past the incubation period of the virus and limit the spread of an outbreak.
  — Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 Sep. 2020
• But the effects of the protests may not be seen for weeks due to the incubation period the virus poses.
  — Rebecca Hennes, Houston Chronicle, 9 June 2020
• The incubation period for the virus can be up to 14 days.
  — Guy Boulton, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 Nov. 2020
• The idea is to get past the incubation period of the virus and limit further spread.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 13 Oct. 2020
• The incubation period seems to be 2 to 12 days, more or less.
  — Jennifer Couzin-Frankel, Science | AAAS, 2 Oct. 2020
• The incubation period of the virus is believed to be 14 days.
  — Emiko Jozuka, CNN, 18 Feb. 2020
• Males defend the female and the nest through most of the incubation period.
  — Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 27 Dec. 2023
• That's believed to be the incubation period of the virus.
  — Sara Cline, ExpressNews.com, 8 Feb. 2020
• And then, students should do their work online for two weeks, the incubation period of the virus.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 Sep. 2020
• But the rapid tests were far from foolproof and were sometimes foiled by the virus' lengthy incubation period.
  — Jonathan Lemire, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Oct. 2020
• There is an incubation period of some seven to 14 days, the CDC said.
  — Forrest Brown, CNN, 7 June 2022
• The virus is thought to have an incubation period that can last as long as 14 days, though is often between four and five days.
  — Paul Gattis | [e-mail], al, 15 June 2020
• Their parent strain, BA.5, was said to have an incubation period of three to five days.
  — Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2022
• The head of the agency said that will put them three weeks out from the last round of reopenings — and the virus’ typical incubation period.
  — Chronicle Staff, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Apr. 2021
• The incubation period, the time between exposure to the virus and the onset of symptoms, passed two weeks ago.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 4 Nov. 2021
• The incubation period for the disease is anywhere from 2 days to three weeks, according to the WHO.
  — Staff and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2023
• The virus is believed to have a two-week incubation period.
  — Jim MacKinnon, Cincinnati.com, 3 Feb. 2020
• The incubation period — the period from infection to the start of symptoms — is as short as two days to as long as three weeks.
  — Katia Hetter, CNN, 29 Mar. 2023
• Wooten said that now that the two-week incubation period for the virus has passed, such an increase is unlikely.
  — Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Sep. 2020
• Measles also has a long incubation period, which means that someone could have measles and not know it for as long as two or three weeks.
  — Katia Hetter, CNN, 14 Mar. 2024
• The state park will be used to isolate those who may have caught the virus and need to be kept away from the public during the strain’s weekslong incubation period.
  — Madison Dibble, Washington Examiner, 11 Mar. 2020
• The incubation period for Covid-19 is at least two days.
  — Faye Chiu, CNN, 28 Dec. 2022
• After a month-long incubation period, three eggs hatched from one nest and one egg hatched from a second.
  — Raquel Baier, azcentral, 6 June 2019
• The coronavirus incubation period seems much longer than that of the flu.
  — Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 2 May 2020
• The virus is believed to have a 14-day incubation period.
  — NBC News, 8 Oct. 2020
• Lopez became ill just 48 hours after the swap meet, which would have been a short incubation period.
  — Stephanie Innes, The Arizona Republic, 3 Nov. 2020
• Still, officials said, because of the incubation period of the virus of up to two weeks, a spike is not apparent.
  — Sarah Ravani, SFChronicle.com, 6 June 2020
• But two weeks – the incubation period for the virus – have passed since the largest of those rallies took place, without a dramatic leap in cases.
  — USA TODAY, 22 June 2020
• The incubation period, which is the time between getting infected and showing symptoms, can be three to 17 days.
  — Maia Pandey, Journal Sentinel, 15 Aug. 2024
• The reason for more infections, and possibly more deaths, is the incubation period for listeria may last more than two months.
  — Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 2 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024