How to Use inoculate in a Sentence

inoculate

verb

• 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
• 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
• 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
• The first people to be immunized in many places have been older than that as countries rush to inoculate nursing-home residents at high risk from the virus.
  — Naomi Kresge, Fortune, 15 Jan. 2021
• Both of them reflect Jude’s disdain for the ways people inoculate themselves from harsh truths in order to enjoy a false, sunnier version of life.
  — Tim Grierson, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2024
• People have tried to inoculate soils with nitrogen-fixing bacteria in the hope that the plants and microbes would form a partnership.
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 30 Aug. 2022
• The Duck River Darter Snapper—a member of a genus that has already lost most of its species to extinction—lures and then clamps its shell shut on the head of a hapless fish, inoculating it with larvae.
  — Robert Kunzig, Scientific American, 17 Oct. 2023
• But his cautionary stance toward entanglement does help inoculate the United States against chronic overreach.
  — Charles Kupchan, Foreign Affairs, 9 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024