How to Use outbreak in a Sentence

outbreak

noun

• Nearly four million poultry have died in the state since the start of the outbreak.
  — Dan Frosch, WSJ, 22 Jan. 2023
• The Grand Rapids outbreak is believed to have been caused in this manner.
  — Staff Report, Twin Cities, 13 Feb. 2024
• By the end of that outbreak, 14 patients lost their vision and four died.
  — Alexander Tin, CBS News, 26 Apr. 2024
• About 15 people have been tested in this outbreak, the CDC says, and only one had the virus.
  — Jen Christensen, CNN, 3 Apr. 2024
• Last Thursday, researchers at the CDC published something akin to a post-mortem of the 2022 outbreak that wasn't.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 5 Feb. 2024
• The same thing happened around 2017, when a hepatitis outbreak killed more than a dozen.
  — Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Sep. 2023
• Last year, more than 52 million birds in the United States died because of avian flu outbreaks.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Oct. 2023
• At the end of 1977, a measles outbreak ripped through the Yanomami population, killing scores.
  — Chris Wiley, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2023
• Even in recent weeks there has been a new outbreak of violence and threats.
  — Greg Miller, Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2023
• There is now a larger outbreak of a different clade in Africa.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 16 Aug. 2024
• There are no cases of bird flu among cattle in Missouri, but there have been outbreaks of the virus among poultry in the state.
  — Carma Hassan, CNN, 7 Sep. 2024
• There were 28 cases that year, which were linked to a large outbreak across the border in Washington state.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 4 Sep. 2024
• Russia’s own currency has weakened since the outbreak of the war.
  — Olesya Dmitracova, CNN, 12 Sep. 2023
• The show skidded off track in 2020 — canceled at the last minute because of the coronavirus outbreak — and had been stalled until now.
  — James Brooks and Jamey Keaten, Quartz, 26 Feb. 2024
• Here, The Last of Us takes us to Jakarta for the origin of the outbreak—or, at least, as far back as this world's authorities might be able to trace.
  — Evan Romano, Men's Health, 22 Jan. 2023
• The virus was first identified 25 years ago in Malaysia and has led to outbreaks in Bangladesh, India and Singapore.
  — Reuters, CNN, 21 July 2024
• At least eight people who were killed in the tornado outbreak lived in mobile homes.
  — Bracey Harris, NBC News, 10 May 2023
• The outbreak at the Spanish mink farm could be a special case where the virus transmitted from mammal to mammal, Richt said.
  — Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY, 4 Feb. 2023
• Before this, the most recent Marburg outbreak was in Ghana in July.
  — Aria Bendix, NBC News, 14 Feb. 2023
• The flu outbreak is directly responsible for the domestic short supply of eggs in the U.S. and the high prices.
  — Tristan Bove, Fortune, 25 Jan. 2023
• By the time the outbreak ended, it’s believed that between 25 to 50 million may have died across the Mediterranean, though this is debated.
  — Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 7 Mar. 2024
• How often do people get bird flu? The Hong Kong outbreak in 1997 was the first time this bird flu was blamed for severe human illness.
  — Mike Stobbe, Fortune Well, 18 Feb. 2023
• Harvesting pines minimizes the risk of budworm outbreak, as well as the risk of wildfires.
  — Detroit Free Press, 16 July 2023
• Most were due to norovirus (47%) and salmonella (17%), at least among outbreaks with known causes.
  — Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 6 June 2023
• The virus was first noticed in 1967 when an outbreak occurred in Marburg and Frankfurt, Germany.
  — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
• Spread of the disease has slowed, but isolated outbreaks still occur.
  — Mariyam Muhammad, The Enquirer, 9 July 2024
• Schools spokeswoman Julie Moult said in an email that the school district reports outbreaks to the county health department.
  — Karina Elwood, Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2023
• Since then, Maryland has not seen a major disease outbreak.
  — Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post, 21 Apr. 2023
• That outbreak killed 10 people and sickened dozens more who ate deli meats processed at a Virginia plant that has since been permanently shut down.
  — Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024
• Same-stores dropped about 9% after the outbreak announcement, according to Bloomberg data.
  — Francisco Velasquez, Quartz, 29 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024