How to Use uninfected in a Sentence

uninfected

adjective

• The experts raised an alarm about the lack of space inside the prison to isolate the infected from the uninfected.
  — Jason Fagone, SFChronicle.com, 24 June 2020
• The uninfected guinea pig got the flu, courtesy of the particles that came over from the immune guinea pig’s cage.
  — Popular Science, 18 Aug. 2020
• The agency made clear that only the uninfected would be allowed to fly back.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 21 Feb. 2020
• The amount of acetophenone on the infected mice was found to be 10 times higher than on the uninfected ones.
  — Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 3 July 2022
• The influenza and uninfected hamsters dug the treats straight up.
  — Jason Mast, STAT, 13 June 2022
• Over the next five years more than three quarters of the uninfected partners contracted HIV.
  — William A. Haseltine, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2020
• Only in the fall did the U.S. government start claiming masks might protect the uninfected too.
  — WSJ, 22 June 2021
• But as the number of cases swell, space to isolate the positive inmates from the uninfected is shrinking.
  — Sarah Nelson, The Indianapolis Star, 5 May 2021
• Attack rate is the number of people who become ill with or die from the disease compared to the number of people uninfected.
  — Anne Saker, Cincinnati.com, 25 Mar. 2020
• Even still, a second part of the study saw 200 subjects looking through a mass of photos of infected and uninfected people.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 4 Aug. 2022
• Moreover, the queens and the infected workers were expressing more of a gene called silver, but the uninfected workers were not.
  — Viviane Callier, Quanta Magazine, 10 Jan. 2023
• That study found that the drug reduce the risk for HIV transmission to an uninfected partner by 75 percent compared with a placebo.
  — Jessica Firger, Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2015
• This latter claim led some uninfected people to hoard the drug, take it, and tragically caused at least one person to die from an overdose.
  — Ezekiel Emanuel, CNN, 5 May 2021
• The fact that the employees of the Paju Starbucks were uninfected is a testament to how effective masks can be, even when those around you aren’t wearing them.
  — Whizy Kim, refinery29.com, 25 Aug. 2020
• The infected Halsey sailors are being isolated, and the uninfected crew members remain aboard, the Navy said.
  — James Hookway, WSJ, 27 Dec. 2021
• Wolves infected with the parasite were more likely to be pack leaders and 11 times more likely to disperse from the pack than uninfected wolves.
  — Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 25 Nov. 2022
• So the rate at which a virus spreads is proportional to the number of infected people and the number who remain uninfected and not immune.
  — Eugenia Cheng, WSJ, 3 June 2021
• Infected humans can serve as a source of the virus for uninfected mosquitoes.
  — Abdur Rahman Jahangir, BostonGlobe.com, 31 July 2019
• Early testing in animals and humans suggests that a dose a fraction the size of the one Mr. Trump received can protect an uninfected person against the virus.
  — New York Times, 12 Oct. 2020
• The extremely vulnerable and the as-yet-uninfected would be safe.
  — Melissa Healystaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2020
• Instead, keeping groups small can reduce the number of uninfected people who come into contact with the virus.
  — National Geographic, 19 Mar. 2020
• The virus spreads when an infected person sneezes or releases other discharges that contact the eyes, nose or mouth of an uninfected child.
  — Mark Johnson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10 Jan. 2020
• If mice were scarcer, larval ticks, which are always born uninfected, might feed on other mammals and bird species that do not carry germs harmful to humans.
  — Amy Harmon, New York Times, 2 Aug. 2017
• The infected and uninfected ferrets shared air, but did not have direct contact with each other.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 10 June 2024
• Both of those restrictions were meant to keep plague doctors from carrying the disease to uninfected people.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2021
• But as daily infections in the city soared, some were asked to stay with their uninfected roommates until more transport could be arranged, said two workers.
  — Fortune, 27 May 2022
• This work has convinced her that anyone who spends most of their day in dusty outdoor areas in the western U.S. would need a Coccidioides vaccine to remain uninfected.
  — Ashli Blow, Scientific American, 19 Sep. 2023
• Authorizing a vaccine, on the other hand, might lead to use in hundreds of millions of uninfected people.
  — Robert Langreth, Bloomberg.com, 22 Sep. 2020
• But by the fall of 2020, when the virus’s first wave had abated, the rough sleepers — the most vulnerable of populations in normal times — remained largely uninfected.
  — Tracy Kidder, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2023
• It’s believed that milking machines, which are not cleaned after each cow is milked, have been spreading the virus from infected to uninfected animals.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 5 June 2024

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024