How to Use deworm in a Sentence

deworm

verb
  • As far as Rene, the group took the injured puppy to the doctors and dewormed him.
    — Francisco Guzman and Saeed Ahmed, CNN, 2020-02-21
  • One of them is a veterinary drug mebendazole that had been used to deworm the mice used in the cancer lab.
    — Meredith Cohn, baltimoresun.com, 2017-07-20
  • Brady, who said the kittens' mother died, said the five girls and one boy are still nursing and are in the process of being dewormed.
    — Tiffini Theisen, orlandosentinel.com, 2019-07-22
  • The older kittens are spayed/neutered, vaccinated, and dewormed.
    — Terry Demio, Cincinnati.com, 2018-02-26
  • All dogs and cats available for adoption have been spayed or neutered, received blood work, vaccinations, deworming and flea treatments.
    — Megan Becka, cleveland.com, 2019-07-12
  • All dogs are vaccinated against rabies, parvo and distemper and are dewormed before flight.
    — Donna Vickroy, Daily Southtown, 2017-07-06
  • Owners must have proof of vaccinations, deworming and a negative feline leukemia virus test.
    — Karla Peterson, sandiegouniontribune.com, 2017-09-01
  • Goats, dairy sheep and barn cats mostly look out for themselves, requiring little more than hay in winter and a regular squirt in the mouth of deworming paste.
    — Christopher McDougall, New York Times, 2016-11-23
  • After the surgery, doctors dewormed the boy and his family members with an oral dose of mebendazole, and he was released after seven days.
    — Fox News, 2019-06-11
  • Banh treated the patient with deworming medication and quizzed him about lifestyle or travel habits that could have led to the diagnosis.
    — Jamie Ducharme, Time, 2018-01-19
  • The demand is for ivermectin, a drug primarily used to deworm animals that has become the latest false cure for Covid-19.
    — NBC News, 2021-08-26
  • An equestrian supply store has sold out of a drug primarily used to deworm horses that vaccine skeptics are peddling as a remedy to the coronavirus.
    — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 2021-08-30
  • The fee includes a microchip, deworming, rabies and booster vaccinations and spaying or neutering.
    — Elizabeth Koh, miamiherald, 2017-06-13
  • Clinic services include nail trimming, microchipping, deworming and heartworm testing.
    — Karen Zurawski, Houston Chronicle, 2018-06-12
  • Ivermectin was originally developed to deworm livestock animals before doctors began using it against parasitic diseases among humans.
    — Cameron Knight, The Enquirer, 2021-09-03
  • Vitamin supplements and deworming yielded similar results.
    — Dennis Normile, Science | AAAS, 2017-09-21
  • By using randomisation to set the schedule by which different schools’ pupils would be treated for intestinal worms, Mr Kremer and his co-author, Edward Miguel, learned that deworming improved health and attendance—but not test scores.
    — The Economist, 2019-11-21
  • McGill said race officials alerted the other 2018 Yukon Quest mushers as well as the communities the race passed through about the presence of whipworms on the trail, urging them to talk to a veterinarian about deworming protocols.
    — Tegan Hanlon, Anchorage Daily News, 2018-04-25
  • In 2010, founder Jane Parker-Rauw decided to have locals and tourists alike help socialize the animals to humans and other dogs (don't worry: Pups have to be vaccinated and dewormed before they are allowed to comingle).
    — Melissa Minton, Teen Vogue, 2017-07-11

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