How to Use bubonic plague in a Sentence

bubonic plague

noun
  • Is this the same as bubonic plague?
    — Bay Area News Group, Mercury News, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Of course, a bubonic plague just had to break out, and pile on the despair.
    — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 14 Feb. 2022
  • Rats and fleas in parts of the country carry the bubonic plague.
    — Caroline Chen, ProPublica, 7 Mar. 2023
  • This is the same rat that wiped out half of Europe with the bubonic plague.
    — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 13 Jan. 2023
  • Rats and fleas, transmitters of bubonic plague, get their due.
    — Julia M. Klein, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Sep. 2023
  • Once abroad, crewmen risked many diseases, but bubonic plague was not among them.
    — James Belich, Fortune, 22 Jan. 2023
  • Along with fever, headache and chills, someone with the bubonic plague may get swollen painful lymph nodes called buboes.
    — Sacbee.com, 11 July 2025
  • While the bubonic plague affects lymph nodes, septicemic plague affects the blood.
    — Sara Hashemi, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 July 2025
  • Yersinia pestis, a bacteria species spread by fleas, causes the bubonic plague.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Oct. 2022
  • Try reading something where a rat coming out of a house could give people bubonic plague.
    — Joan Biskupic, CNN, 27 Jan. 2022
  • Some, like those behind the bubonic plague, have had a big impact on our immune systems.
    — Laura Ungar, Fortune, 19 Oct. 2022
  • Rats are porters of fleas which spread the bubonic plague and are attracted by garbages and unsalubrity.
    — Meera Senthilingam, CNN, 16 Oct. 2017
  • Symptoms of the bubonic plague often included large, swollen lymph nodes that oozed puss.
    — Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 31 Mar. 2023
  • That doesn’t sound like an outbreak of the highly transmittable bubonic plague.
    — James Shapiro, The Atlantic, 1 Dec. 2025
  • Not long after, bubonic plague caused the loss of as many as 100 million people.
    — Michael S. Hopkins, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Nov. 2020
  • The bubonic plague usually comes from the result of an infected flea bite.
    — Tim Darnell, ajc, 15 Nov. 2019
  • The pneumonic plague is more deadly than the bubonic plague, which is rarely spread from person to person.
    — Michael Brice-Saddler, chicagotribune.com, 15 Nov. 2019
  • The bubonic plague is one of three different types of plague, along with septicemic and pneumonic.
    — Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 10 Nov. 2021
  • These studies were performed in mice models of bubonic plague, according to the team.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 29 May 2025
  • But with recent fears of bubonic plague on the West Coast, the shop wasn't carrying rats.
    — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 23 Dec. 2020
  • The bubonic plague has long been present in the California region.
    — Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure, 4 Aug. 2021
  • Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that causes bubonic plague, spreads through the bites of infected fleas.
    — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 12 June 2018
  • Since the 14th century, the bubonic plague has continued to crop up around the world.
    — Sarah Holzmann, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Feb. 2025
  • The mass grave and the presence of the bubonic plague, amazingly, may have just been a coincidence.
    — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 7 June 2023
  • While fleeing the city would be a wise choice when faced with most pathogens, human density doesn’t dictate the bubonic plague’s spread.
    — Cody Cassidy, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 June 2023
  • The bubonic plague, a disease caused by the bacteria Yersinia pestis, killed millions across the globe centuries ago.
    — Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner, 7 Aug. 2020
  • The bubonic plague is infamously known for causing the Black Death.
    — Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 10 Nov. 2021
  • Though his official cause of death remains unknown, Hamnet dies of the bubonic plague in the novel.
    — Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 28 Dec. 2025
  • The best a plague doctor could do was drain blood and lymph from the swollen buboes that gave the bubonic plague its name – but sometimes that only helped spread the infection.
    — Kiona N. Smith, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2021
  • In 14th-century Europe, Jews were blamed for the bubonic plague.
    — Arie Perliger, The Conversation, 17 Feb. 2022

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