How to Use coronavirus in a Sentence

coronavirus

noun
  • Among them will be pathogens worse than the coronavirus.
    — Vann R. Newkirk Ii, The Atlantic, 9 Feb. 2026
  • That said, hantavirus and coronavirus are not the same thing.
    — Sara Moniuszko, USA Today, 8 May 2026
  • The business was starting to take off when the coronavirus hit last year.
    — Staff, cleveland, 22 July 2022
  • His place made it through the sea change brought forth by the coronavirus pandemic.
    — Miguel Otárola, Denver Post, 21 Aug. 2025
  • The teams didn’t play in 2020 due to the coronavirus.
    — Lou Ponsi, Oc Register, 23 Aug. 2025
  • And, because of coronavirus [lockdowns], these guys grew their hair for two years.
    — Michelle Lee, Peoplemag, 2 Mar. 2023
  • In a third, a nurse says a pregnant woman is in severe pain and has coronavirus.
    — ABC News, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Stay informed about coronavirus rates in the area and be prepared to adapt if needed.
    — Andy Kessler, WSJ, 5 Mar. 2023
  • He was aided, oddly enough, by the coronavirus.
    — Sally Jenkins, The Atlantic, 1 Feb. 2026
  • The museum closed down for two years because of the coronavirus.
    — Tom Henderson | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 25 July 2022
  • The sign on the door is not a holdover from some earlier stage of the coronavirus pandemic.
    — Alec MacGillis, ProPublica, 14 Apr. 2023
  • It also was found to be a risk of infection with the coronavirus itself.
    — Meg Tirrell, CNN Money, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Then coronavirus shattered that peace.
    — Jonathan Lansner, Oc Register, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Some of their staff members contracted coronavirus and didn’t come back.
    — Wilborn P. Nobles Iii, Dallas Morning News, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Chevron made the deal when crude prices were down more than 30% in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.
    — Michelle Chapman, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Oct. 2023
  • The vaccines have proved to be safe and effective in stemming the spread of the coronavirus.
    — Emily Cochrane, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Dec. 2021
  • In the beginning, when the coronavirus was new, the quest for a vaccine was simple.
    — Carolyn Y. Johnson, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Aug. 2022
  • See the latest coronavirus numbers and how the omicron variant has spread across the world.
    — Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2022
  • At the beginning of the pandemic, schools closed to avoid the spread of the coronavirus.
    — cleveland, 4 Apr. 2022
  • Stocks hadn’t fallen this far this fast since the early days of the coronavirus pandemic.
    — Jon Cherry, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2025
  • But don’t overlook that this decade’s raises are a stunning change from the era before coronavirus.
    — Jonathan Lansner, Oc Register, 13 Aug. 2025
  • The next week, the season was canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic.
    — Stephen J. Nesbitt, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2025
  • But the coronavirus pandemic marked a turning point.
    — Rheana Murray, The Atlantic, 23 Apr. 2026
  • This induces an immune system response to the spike protein that is present on the coronavirus.
    — Joshua P. Cohen, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Then the coronavirus pandemic changed the way education was done for the next two years.
    — Steve Sadin, Chicago Tribune, 27 May 2026
  • Beijing had the strictest coronavirus restrictions yet for the Games.
    — Saphora Smith, NBC News, 14 Feb. 2022
  • Prisons have become a coronavirus hot spot in several states.
    — Shirsho Dasgupta, Miami Herald, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Anti-Asian hate crimes decreased for the first time since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.
    — Josh Feldman, NBC News, 29 Oct. 2023
  • That year, the event was held in November due to the coronavirus pandemic.
    — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 9 Apr. 2026
  • The current shots were designed to address the original strain of the coronavirus.
    — Erika Edwards, NBC News, 14 July 2022

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