How to Use contagion in a Sentence

contagion

noun
  • People have been warned to keep out of the area to avoid contagion.
  • The contagion wouldn't stop at tech stocks.
    — Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2025
  • The best way to avoid contagion is to get tested and get the vaccine.
    — Devika Rao, The Week, 13 Aug. 2023
  • The country may now have fewer tools to fight the next contagion.
    — Joel Achenbach, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Mar. 2023
  • The more people who wear masks, the more the risk of contagion is reduced.
    — Anne Saker, The Enquirer, 4 Sep. 2020
  • So far that kind of contagion doesn’t appear to be taking place.
    — Jon Hilsenrath, WSJ, 28 Feb. 2022
  • One sailor died in the contagion, and its captain was dismissed.
    — Abraham Mahshie, Washington Examiner, 26 Oct. 2020
  • For years, many have sought to isolate the contagion of populism.
    — Corey Robin, The New York Review of Books, 13 Apr. 2020
  • The patient is brain-dead, but still deadly in its contagion.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 5 Jan. 2018
  • Like the flu, the streaming-price-hike contagion is back in full swing this season.
    — Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 21 Oct. 2025
  • That type of worry, though, spreads like a contagion to voters.
    — John Blake, CNN, 22 June 2024
  • The worst fears of an unchecked financial contagion have eased.
    — David J. Lynch, Washington Post, 16 Apr. 2023
  • In dense neighborhoods, the events play out like a contagion.
    — Evan Bush, NBC News, 19 Jan. 2025
  • Beneath the volatile skin of the street, new savagery can be felt, like a contagion along the nerves.
    — Gail Sheehy, Daily Intelligencer, 9 Sep. 2017
  • But your columnist offers it as one who has felt the force of canine contagion.
    — The Economist, 21 Nov. 2019
  • But how to explain the contagion that can rush through an entire team of shooters?
    — Mark Whicker, Orange County Register, 11 Feb. 2017
  • Dropping out of the red to the orange zone does not mean the danger of contagion has passed.
    — Anne Saker, The Enquirer, 12 Aug. 2020
  • The first test for the biggest companies in tech will be contagion from their peers.
    — New York Times, 20 May 2022
  • For fear of contagion, the hospital staff housed him in a storage shed.
    — Peter Wayne Moe, Longreads, 26 Mar. 2026
  • The contagion card forces another player to pick up all of the cards in the center pile.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Dec. 2020
  • The government and the press have focused on the cost of not doing enough to stop the contagion.
    — Krista Kafer, The Denver Post, 2 Apr. 2020
  • At the same time, the chaos caused by the coup has created conditions ripe for contagion.
    — Feliz Solomon, WSJ, 23 July 2021
  • Kids with the flu won’t be able to go the doctor, increasing their contagion to other kids.
    — Nish Weiseth, Cosmopolitan, 10 Jan. 2018
  • Second, as the contagion breaks through, panic.
    — David Blumenthal, STAT, 24 Mar. 2026
  • Sobyanin said the city reversed the decision because the pace of contagion has slowed.
    — Fox News, 16 July 2021
  • Workers are striking in shifts, so as to avoid the contagion risk of large crowds in front of their warehouses.
    — David Meyer, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2020
  • The episode concluded the show's two-part contagion event, and there were signs that the three series' leads could have died.
    — Charna Flam, People.com, 18 Apr. 2025
  • But the contagion of rebellion was spreading there, too.
    — Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
  • At the time of the announcement, no evidence of a virus or contagion was present on the vessel.
    — Camila Bernal, NBC news, 7 May 2026
  • The hysteria set off the rest of the group, unleashing a contagion of crying that left the staff at a loss.
    — Author: Maria Sacchetti, Kevin Sieff, Marc Fisher, Anchorage Daily News, 25 June 2018

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