How to Use booster shot in a Sentence

booster shot

noun
  • He had to get two booster shots at his latest checkup.
  • Both need a second booster shot a few weeks after the first dose.
    — Angie Leventis Lourgos, chicagotribune.com, 4 Mar. 2021
  • Trump will probably have to do a lot worse than get a booster shot to lose his base.
    — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 18 Jan. 2022
  • Even if the booster shot were based on the delta variant, that variant passed through a long time ago.
    — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 22 July 2022
  • Some residents expressed hope that a booster shot is on its way.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 12 Aug. 2021
  • Moderna's booster shot will not be the same as its initial shot.
    — Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 22 Oct. 2021
  • The goal is to build up your immune system, and the booster shot is going to do that.
    — ABC News, 2 Jan. 2022
  • In other words, people won't have to wait almost a year for each new booster shot.
    — Dr. Abarna Ramanathan, ABC News, 12 Mar. 2021
  • The first year of the series consists of three shots, followed by a booster shot the next year.
    — Janet Loehrke, USA Today, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Should people age 50+ get their second booster shot now, or wait?
    — Jessica Flores, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Mar. 2022
  • Now is the time to get a new bivalent booster shot, Fauci said.
    — Caroline Catherman, Orlando Sentinel, 24 Oct. 2022
  • And a booster shot must be administered about three weeks after the first dose.
    — Dallas News, 15 Dec. 2020
  • Even short-term visitors like me could now register and get a booster shot free of charge.
    — E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 21 Jan. 2022
  • None would have had their second booster shot by Christmas Day.
    — NBC News, 2 Jan. 2021
  • The participants will get a booster shot about a month later.
    — Scientific American, 13 July 2020
  • And among those that have kept them, most don’t mandate that employees get the latest booster shot.
    — Jeanne Sahadi, CNN, 16 Nov. 2022
  • For instance, anyone older than 65 can now get a booster shot.
    — Nathan Ruiz, Baltimore Sun, 22 July 2022
  • Moderna, too, announced a plan to have a booster shot ready its two-dose vaccine course ready by the fall.
    — Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 16 Apr. 2021
  • There is no evidence to show that his aortic aneurysm was related to the booster shot.
    — Isabella Fertel, USA TODAY, 10 Nov. 2022
  • For the first booster shot, just 68 percent of the senior citizen group got them.
    — Josh Fischman, Scientific American, 13 June 2022
  • The booster shot would be administered about eight months after the second dose of the vaccine.
    — WSJ, 18 Aug. 2021
  • But among those who have gone up to six months without a booster shot, the vaccine efficacy drops to less than 25%.
    — Claire Bugos, Verywell Health, 16 June 2023
  • Pfizer is expected to be first to win approval from the FDA for a booster shot.
    — Alexander Tin, CBS News, 11 Sep. 2021
  • At Discount Drug Mart, demand for the flu vaccine and the new booster shot has been roughly equal.
    — Julie Washington, cleveland, 16 Sep. 2022
  • Last week, the government said all children in London ages 1 to 9 would be offered a booster shot.
    — CBS News, 22 Aug. 2022
  • The goal is to test whether a booster shot of the vaccine made by Moderna will increase antibodies against the virus.
    — New York Times, 28 June 2021
  • As of mid-October, 90% had received two shots, but only 57% had a booster shot.
    — Emily Wang, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Oct. 2022
  • In Britain, 85% of people age 12 and up have had two vaccine doses and almost two-thirds have had a third booster shot.
    — Jill Lawless, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Feb. 2022
  • And around 65% of Brits have had a booster shot, according to data from the BBC.
    — Sophie Mellor, Fortune, 7 Feb. 2022
  • The company plans to start within a couple of months a Phase 1 study of the booster shot aimed at the South African variant.
    — Peter Loftus, WSJ, 25 Jan. 2021

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