How to Use inoculate in a Sentence

inoculate

verb
  • War is a poison that our species to date has not been able to inoculate against.
    David Browne, Rolling Stone, 28 Sep. 2024
  • Harrison talks about the effect that has on people’s happiness and offers advice on how people can inoculate themselves against the cynicism.
    Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2024
  • Malaysia hopes to inoculate 80% of its 33 million people by the end of the year.
    Eileen Ng, Star Tribune, 31 May 2021
  • The last one, the open mind, is to inoculate you against another mess like this.
    Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 3 July 2022
  • Many of them have age cutoffs and are not set up to inoculate small kids.
    Katia Hetter, CNN, 29 Apr. 2022
  • And few bosses seem to know how to inoculate their staff against this quitagion.
    New York Times, 21 Jan. 2022
  • At the time, it was also thought the vaccine would be used to inoculate about 60% of the U.S. population.
    Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 23 Mar. 2021
  • Many states said they were told that this meant an influx of vaccines was on the way, which could be used to inoculate more people.
    Katie Thomas New York Times, Star Tribune, 21 Jan. 2021
  • Deaths attributed to covid-19 have soared in parts of the force as some services struggle to inoculate their troops.
    Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 11 Oct. 2021
  • But when its plant home burns in a fire, the fungus colonizes the soil and then fruits to spread its spores, which, in turn, inoculate new plants and start the cycle again.
    The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 22 May 2024
  • Yet the region and the nation missed their July 4 goal to inoculate enough people to draw the pandemic to a close, at least in the United States.
    Anne Saker, The Enquirer, 16 Aug. 2021
  • The companies must present a plan to inoculate at least 1,000 people per site.
    Chronicle Staff, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 June 2021
  • The facility and the system are able to inoculate up to 1,600 people a day.
    From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 20 Apr. 2021
  • Indeed, 80% of mice inoculated with the chimeric virus died.
    Dave Wessner, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Richard Campana of the University of Maine was one of the early researchers to try to create a serum to inoculate against the disease.
    Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson, Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2022
  • The goal is to fully inoculate everyone by the end of the week who was scheduled for a second dose before the winter storm hit.
    Nic Garcia, Dallas News, 23 Feb. 2021
  • Catherine was the first monarch to be inoculated against smallpox, at a time when none of her European peers were willing to take the risk.
    Lucy Ward, Foreign Affairs, 28 Feb. 2023
  • No one knows quite what vaccinia is—even as it has been used to inoculate billions of people and saved hundreds of millions of lives.
    Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 26 Aug. 2022
  • There is also pressure to inoculate teenagers ahead of the start of the new school year in September, to allow for in-person learning.
    Saeed Shah, WSJ, 7 June 2021
  • The grapes are cold soaked for three days after harvest and then inoculated with cultured yeasts.
    Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 5 Sep. 2024
  • And San Diego firefighters will go out into the fields to inoculate farm workers.
    Jonathan Wosen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Feb. 2021
  • Dimsdale harvested the contents of a smallpox pustule from the young son of a sergeant-major and used it to inoculate Catherine.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 19 Dec. 2021
  • Delta, which first emerged in India, is spreading around the globe as governments race to inoculate people.
    BostonGlobe.com, 8 July 2021
  • Fledgling plants were still showing signs of stress but less so for the chickpeas inoculated with the helpful fungus.
    Miriam Fauzia, Discover Magazine, 10 Apr. 2024
  • The shift will help Ochsner keep costs and health premiums low for employees who have decided to inoculate themselves against the virus.
    Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 4 Oct. 2021
  • Still, as Sampson should know all too well, success only inoculates you so much.
    Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 23 Sep. 2024
  • Priority will be to inoculate health care workers on the front lines of the pandemic.
    Chronicle Staff, SFChronicle.com, 26 Dec. 2020
  • Volusia received 3,000 doses and used some of them to inoculate health workers who will be giving the shots.
    Annie Martin, orlandosentinel.com, 31 Dec. 2020
  • This vaccine worked well in lab animals, but then came the problem of how to actually inoculate raccoons in the wild.
    Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 6 Sep. 2022
  • In Mexico, the president says he won’t be held hostage by vaccine makers and there are no plans to inoculate under-18s except those at risk.
    Fox News, 13 Nov. 2021

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