How to Use communicable in a Sentence

communicable

adjective
  • Donors have blood tests and are screened for communicable diseases as well as risky behavior.
    — Kenneth Willardt, Harper's BAZAAR, 14 Dec. 2017
  • Sitting near the aisle puts passengers in the line of fire of any communicable viruses that could break out on the plane.
    — Julia Zorthian, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2017
  • But unlike horseshoes and hand grenades, close doesn't cut it for communicable diseases.
    — Peter Weber, The Week, 20 Aug. 2022
  • Ebola is among the most high profile of these communicable diseases.
    — Aryn Baker, Time, 17 Apr. 2020
  • The regulations were put in place as a way to prevent the spread of communicable diseases.
    — Erin Hegarty, Naperville Sun, 7 June 2019
  • This is the only way metrics become communicable at scale.
    — Big Think, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Smallpox and the spread of communicable disease was very much on the minds of the school systems in Maryland in this era.
    — Kevin Dayhoff, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 26 Mar. 2021
  • So, barring any other run-ins with fast-spreading communicable illnesses, the show will go on.
    — oregonlive, 18 Apr. 2022
  • Measles is one of the most highly communicable infections.
    — Letters To The Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Bushmeat comes from wild animals in certain parts of the world like Africa and may pose communicable disease risk.
    — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 13 Jan. 2022
  • In fact, Arizona tribes aren't required by law to report communicable diseases to the state, although many do.
    — Chelsea Curtis, azcentral, 4 June 2020
  • Even the act of fleeing can put people in environments that give communicable diseases the upper hand.
    — Karen Kaplanscience and Medicine Editor, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2022
  • In Asia, mask wearing has been widely accepted as a way to prevent the spread of communicable diseases.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 27 Mar. 2021
  • The policies do not exclude losses from communicable diseases or viruses, the lawsuits say.
    — USA TODAY, 27 May 2020
  • In this age of super bugs and global travel, most countries have stringent plans for how to contain communicable diseases such as the coronavirus.
    — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 30 Jan. 2020
  • In recent years, concerns about communicable bird diseases have caused the owners to close the farm to tours and take extra precautions in handling the turkeys.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 27 Nov. 2019
  • Title 42 was set in place to quickly expel migrants back to their home countries because of communicable diseases.
    — Jiovanni Lieggi, Fox News, 12 Apr. 2022
  • Over the last decade there has been growing concern that so much of the way health systems are structured across Africa is set up to handle communicable diseases like malaria.
    — Uwagbale Edward-Ekpu, Quartz Africa, 16 Nov. 2020
  • Hou Vang, a county communicable disease specialist, asks a pregnant woman standing in the shade of a tree outside her home.
    — Kristen Hwang, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Oct. 2022
  • At the time, medical science was ill-equipped to manage rising rates of communicable disease, leaving art to help fill a need to comprehend and process illness.
    — Elizabeth Lee, The Conversation, 31 July 2020
  • The prisons’ over-crowding and under-resourced system, Willis said, amounts to a breeding ground for communicable diseases.
    — Megan Cassidy, SFChronicle.com, 11 Aug. 2020
  • Along with a rise in asthma attacks, the housing crisis has produced a surge in health problems, including communicable diseases, viruses and head lice.
    — Gabrielle Canon, USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2020
  • The bubonic plague, caused by the Yersinia pestis bacteria, is believed to be the deadliest of these communicable cataclysms.
    — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 30 Sep. 2021
  • In at least three recent Olympic games, highly communicable diseases have become as much a part of the story line as gold medal counts and crazy athletic costuming.
    — Jenny Deam, Houston Chronicle, 20 Feb. 2018
  • Horse owners around the world are monitoring a new outbreak of the equine herpes virus, a highly communicable virus that targets a horse’s nervous system and can be fatal.
    — Chris Perkins, sun-sentinel.com, 15 Mar. 2021
  • In the cold tank, during Fowles’s microbiology trimester, the two had a long talk about communicable diseases and whether a mortician might catch one from a corpse.
    — Joan Niesen, SI.com, 8 Aug. 2019
  • As a reminder, as with any communicable disease, public health officials recommend that the infected stay away from the healthy, and that the healthy wash their hands frequently.
    — Mary Kilpatrick, cleveland, 4 Feb. 2020
  • Elk hoof rot from Washington, hair-loss syndrome in deer, numerous other communicable diseases in deer and seasonal outbreaks of avian flu, to name just a few.
    — oregonlive, 3 Dec. 2021
  • All received some share of the blame this week from conservative media figures for the growing public concern over the coronavirus, the communicable disease that has spread across the globe.
    — Paul Farhi, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2020
  • The group also outlines tips for camps on how to put in place procedures to screen for illness, injury, and communicable diseases including measles as campers arrive, Freridge said.
    — Mari A. Schaefer, https://www.inquirer.com, 4 June 2019

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