How to Use antibody in a Sentence

antibody

noun
  • Larkin joined a year-long antibody study.
    — Jennifer McLogan, CBS News, 26 May 2026
  • Your body then makes proteins and mounts an antibody response to them.
    — Mark Kortepeter, Forbes, 26 May 2022
  • These antibodies will target some part of that virus.
    — Benjamin P. Brown, The Conversation, 7 Apr. 2026
  • The third is the antibody test, which shows if a person was infected in the past.
    — Emily Woodruff, NOLA.com, 24 Nov. 2020
  • An antibody titer test is a blood test that can check your immunity to the measles virus.
    — Korin Miller, SELF, 21 Feb. 2025
  • There are also lab tests that can detect antibodies in the blood.
    — Nathan Diller, USA Today, 31 Mar. 2025
  • Those results will be compared to the antibody levels seen in adults.
    — Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2021
  • The man had antibodies to both alpha-gal sugars and red meat.
    — Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 14 Nov. 2025
  • That causes the body to create its own antibodies against the virus.
    — Janet Loehrke, USA Today, 6 Aug. 2025
  • That causes the body to create its own antibodies against the virus.
    — Joey Garrison, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Testing reveals dead flu virus and tons of antibodies to virus.
    — Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 13 Jan. 2025
  • There are also proteins that act like drugs, such as antibodies.
    — Benjamin P. Brown, The Conversation, 7 Apr. 2026
  • Blood tests yield more than 3 g of abnormal antibodies per dl of blood.
    — Barbara Brody, Health, 9 June 2024
  • This helps pass on antibodies to the baby before birth.
    — Fran Kritz, Verywell Health, 4 Aug. 2025
  • There is also a blood test that looks for antibodies linked to cedar pollen allergy.
    — Miriam Fauzia, Dallas Morning News, 20 Jan. 2026
  • The virus has found ways around antibody treatments by evolving new versions of its spike protein.
    — oregonlive, 7 Dec. 2022
  • First, a test checks for antibodies, signs that someone has ever been exposed to the virus.
    — Pranjal Malewar, New Atlas, 19 Dec. 2025
  • The antibody tests that followed were not good enough to confirm past infections.
    — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 9 Mar. 2021
  • Infants eight months of age and younger as well as high risk children between eight and nineteen months can get the antibody.
    — Omer Awan, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2024
  • The researchers found that, although some antibody levels stayed high, others fell over time.
    — Katherine S. Xue, The New Yorker, 21 July 2021
  • The others received one of two doses of the antibody cocktail.
    — Sarah Jacoby, SELF, 23 Nov. 2020
  • The next step is to get the human body to produce these antibodies in greater quantities.
    — Rob Reddick, WIRED, 31 Dec. 2024
  • The antibodies your body forms the first time do not provide the same level of protection.
    — Sarah Klein, Health, 26 Mar. 2024
  • Those who got shots in two locations had a higher number of antibodies, the study found.
    — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 7 Feb. 2024
  • Some of these have been worthy of the hype, such as the new antibody-drug conjugates for certain cancers.
    — Thomas Goetz, STAT, 8 Jan. 2026
  • This process allows the horse to build up antibodies that protect it from the venom’s effects.
    — Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 28 Aug. 2025
  • The man was also unable to go to the hospital for antibody treatment.
    — Jared S. Hopkins, WSJ, 14 Mar. 2022
  • The virus will remain among us, if defanged for many, and harmful outbreaks could emerge as antibody levels fade.
    — Paul Douglas, Star Tribune, 24 Mar. 2021
  • The antibody combination performed well in both mice and rats.
    — William A. Haseltine, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
  • At the time, the country had an ample supply of other antibody treatments.
    — New York Times, 6 Jan. 2022

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