How to Use virulent in a Sentence

virulent

adjective

• The country seemed to be returning to the virulent nationalism of its past.
• By then we could be faced with more virulent forms of the disease swirling around the globe.
  — Zoe Cormier, Scientific American, 20 Jan. 2021
• But the state quickly lost ground to the virulent delta variant.
  — Joe Mahr, chicagotribune.com, 27 Feb. 2022
• Much of it is virulent; most of it is never seen by the public.
  — Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 4 Jan. 2021
• This makes black spot less virulent in the dry summer months.
  — Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Apr. 2023
• There is no law of nature that says a virus has to evolve to be less virulent, Barry says.
  — Josh Fischman, Scientific American, 4 Mar. 2022
• But their hatred was no less virulent for its being mired in the past.
  — Harper's Magazine, 25 June 2024
• If the pathogen is present and virulent but the rose is resistant to the pathogen, disease will not develop.
  — Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Apr. 2023
• But Delta was about twice as virulent as the initial iteration of the virus.
  — Clayton Dalton, The New Yorker, 21 Jan. 2022
• But there is no law of nature that says a virus must always evolve to become less virulent.
  — Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 14 Mar. 2022
• That genetic effect has raised concerns that the drug could spur more virulent strains of the virus.
  — Matthew Perrone, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Nov. 2021
• This didn’t work with such a virulent disease that started spreading around the world.
  — Elanah Uretsky, The Conversation, 23 Nov. 2020
• Rain and warm, humid weather in June set a prolonged scene for virulent outbreaks of mildew that some said was the worst in 25 years.
  — Elin McCoy, Fortune Europe, 11 May 2024
• The House has become its own special petri dish, breeding the most virulent strain of what ails the broader party.
  — Dan Balz, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Jan. 2023
• In 2015, a virulent avian flu outbreak nearly wiped out his flock.
  — David Klepper, ajc, 17 May 2022
• The White House has now become a virulent cluster site, the type that scientists love to study to learn more about the way the coronavirus spreads.
  — Washington Post, 8 Oct. 2020
• The more virulent kind seems to come from the right, which tends to dwell in the more lurid conspiracy theories and more outlandish claims.
  — CBS News, 16 Dec. 2020
• Having one strain of dengue fever, for instance, doesn’t guarantee that the next one will be less virulent.
  — Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2020
• Topol fears that a future variant will be more virulent.
  — Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 23 May 2022
• Omicron was the first version of that, and there is this sort of adage that 'well, over time, viruses evolve to be less virulent,' but that's not really true.
  — Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 21 Feb. 2022
• Omicron was the first version of that, and there is this sort of adage that ‘well, over time, viruses evolve to be less virulent,’ but that’s not really true.
  — Jonathan Mattise, chicagotribune.com, 20 Feb. 2022
• But then reality, in the form of a deadly, virulent virus spreading across the planet, changed all of our lives in ways both small and large.
  — oregonlive, 8 Apr. 2021
• Others say it’s too early to tell, and point out that a milder variant next month doesn’t mean a more virulent one couldn’t emerge the following.
  — Erin Prater, Fortune, 21 Aug. 2022
• Meanwhile, the current outbreak, which began in Congo late last year, is linked to a new, more virulent form of the disease.
  — Sophie Neiman, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Sep. 2024
• Now, some devils have evolved to resist the virulent cancer.
  — Big Think, 24 June 2024
• While both sides of the aisle have complaints (including from former Vice President Biden), the most virulent ones come from the right.
  — Steven Levy, Wired, 16 Oct. 2020
• How the cottony cushion scale, a virulent tree pest native to Australia, was unleashed upon the citrus trees of the world is a bit of a mystery.
  — Martin J. Kernan, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Jan. 2022
• To these has been added an outbreak of virulent antisemitism.
  — John Ellis, WSJ, 4 Dec. 2023
• The list of countries that have banned travel to the U.K. continues to grow following news of a more virulent strain of the coronavirus found in the country.
  — Peter Aitken, Fox News, 22 Dec. 2020
• So far, Australia remains the only continent to have avoided the highly virulent H5N1 strain of avian flu.
  — Alexa Robles-Gil, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024