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
• The inmate had a virulent strain of herpes that left him writhing in pain.
  — Danny Robbins, ajc, 11 Oct. 2017
• This makes black spot less virulent in the dry summer months.
  — Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Apr. 2023
• But the scandal has returned to plague Mr Abe again, in a more virulent form.
  — The Economist, 15 Mar. 2018
• 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
• The latest outbreak was caused by a virulent form, and all the infections were tied to the same strain: E. coli O157:H7.
  — Gerry Smith and Daniela Sirtori / Bloomberg, TIME, 23 Oct. 2024
• But their hatred was no less virulent for its being mired in the past.
  — Harper's Magazine, 25 June 2024
• But their hatred was no less virulent for its being mired in the past.
  — Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 2 Aug. 2024
• The coronavirus so far has shown to be less virulent than SARS.
  — Patrick Thomas, WSJ, 29 Jan. 2020
• 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 while outbreaks of tech dystopias come and go, there’s something more virulent about the current strain.
  — Larry Downes, Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2017
• More than two-thirds of cases are of the more virulent pneumonic form.
  — Heather Leighton, Houston Chronicle, 26 Oct. 2017
• 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
• But the campaign against them was so vicious and virulent they didn’t get elected.
  — Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Mar. 2020
• One is that the 1918 flu largely disappeared during the summer of that year, but came back in an even more virulent form in the fall.
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 2 Mar. 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 proposal made news around the globe but the response in the German media was notably virulent.
  — Lisa Rose, CNN, 4 Apr. 2018
• 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
• No vaccine has yet emerged that perfectly matches the current virulent strain, according to the USDA.
  — Laurent Belsie, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Jan. 2025