How to Use common cold in a Sentence

common cold

noun
  • Most of us will catch the common cold at least eight times this year.
    — Maya Dollarhide, Parents, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Even a common cold could be deadly.
    — Lou Ponsi, Oc Register, 24 Oct. 2025
  • That’s been done with some of the viruses that cause the common cold.
    — Joanne Silberner, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Sep. 2020
  • The common cold is an infection of the nose and throat.
    — Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 13 Oct. 2025
  • The common cold is an infection of the nose and throat.
    — Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 27 Oct. 2025
  • The common cold is a virus that usually has to run its course.
    — Carrie Madormo, Health, 28 Nov. 2025
  • Best medicine The plague, the flu and common cold walk into a bar.
    — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Feb. 2025
  • The research on zinc's effect on the common cold has been mixed.
    — Cynthia Sass, Mph, Health, 19 May 2024
  • Well, the common cold is caused by a mild strain of coronavirus.
    — Avik Roy, National Review, 2 Apr. 2020
  • The research on zinc's effect on the common cold has been mixed.
    — Cynthia Sass, Health, 11 Dec. 2025
  • And like a stubborn common cold, the chill isn’t going away quite yet.
    — Anthony R. Wood, Philly.com, 12 Apr. 2018
  • Sometimes a common cold virus, like rhinovirus, is in the mix.
    — Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Los Angeles Times, 2 Jan. 2024
  • Others take zinc to prevent the common cold.
    — Stephanie Brown, Verywell Health, 8 Oct. 2025
  • They have been used for cholera, typhoid, malaria, and even the common cold.
    — Mick Krever, Phil Black and Cristiana Moisescu, CNN, 12 Oct. 2020
  • For the most part the latest version of the virus is more like a mild flu or a common cold.
    — Carl Weiser, The Enquirer, 19 Jan. 2022
  • Lucy has little to no ability to fight off even a common cold.
    — Jason Kane, NBC news, 15 Sep. 2025
  • For most, Covid will be no more serious than the common cold.
    — Dr. Tom Frieden, CNN, 23 July 2021
  • That coronavirus is now one of four that causes the common cold.
    — Erin Allday, SFChronicle.com, 23 Jan. 2021
  • This goes for the common cold, the flu and viruses that could be life-threatening.
    — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 31 Oct. 2022
  • There is to date no cure or vaccine for the common cold since there is such a variety of strains.
    — Sy Mukherjee, Fortune, 28 Oct. 2020
  • As the winter season comes in, your risk for illness, like the flu or common cold, rise.
    — Kirstyn Hill, Health, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Wasn’t this virus just another version of the common cold?
    — Emily Bazar, Scientific American, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Is a mild case of the coronavirus similar to a mild case of the common cold?
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 13 July 2020
  • These viruses, however, are not the kind that will give you the common cold or flu (or worse).
    — Issy Ronald, CNN, 9 Oct. 2024
  • And, common colds would become green, slimy and fanged, monsters of terror.
    — Todd Nordstrom, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • Even a mild bout of the common cold could lead to people feeling exhausted.
    — Katia Hetter, CNN Money, 20 Nov. 2025
  • As a child, even a common cold could send Robles to the hospital.
    — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Dec. 2020
  • That means Lucy has little to no ability to fight off even a common cold.
    — Jason Kane, NBC news, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Just as the common cold and flu mutate a little each year, coronavirus could do the same.
    — USA Today, 25 Aug. 2020
  • Although the infection feels like a cold or the flu for many people, this is not the common cold.
    — Helen Branswell, STAT, 10 Sep. 2023

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