How to Use inoculate in a Sentence

inoculate

verb
  • Many of them have age cutoffs and are not set up to inoculate small kids.
    — Katia Hetter, CNN, 29 Apr. 2022
  • War is a poison that our species to date has not been able to inoculate against.
    — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 28 Sep. 2024
  • These may seem like small lies but the small lies inoculate us against bigger lies.
    — Laura Bradley, VanityFair.com, 24 Jan. 2017
  • And few bosses seem to know how to inoculate their staff against this quitagion.
    — New York Times, 21 Jan. 2022
  • The last one, the open mind, is to inoculate you against another mess like this.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 3 July 2022
  • Some try to inoculate themselves against it.
    — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Rather than cultivate them in a cave, the locals drill holes in logs and inoculate them with spores.
    — David Tanis, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2018
  • Nan ru is tofu that is brined and fermented with rice that has been inoculated with a deep red strain of mold.
    — Julia Moskin, New York Times, 9 July 2018
  • Many states said they were told that this meant an influx of vaccines was on the way, which could be used to inoculate more people.
    — Katie Thomas New York Times, Star Tribune, 21 Jan. 2021
  • The grapes are cold soaked for three days after harvest and then inoculated with cultured yeasts.
    — Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 5 Sep. 2024
  • If my daytime show had not failed, I would not have been inoculated against failure.
    — NBC News, 31 Oct. 2017
  • All dogs in the dog park must be licensed and inoculated, with a maximum of two dogs per handler.
    — Allison Needles, The Seattle Times, 14 Aug. 2017
  • Other cheeses might be coated in herbs, washed with beer, or inoculated with cool mold, and the rind holds a flavor all its own.
    — Alex Delany, Bon Appetit, 25 Apr. 2018
  • We’re almost inoculated by tragedy, although not in this case.
    — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 30 Sep. 2025
  • We’re almost inoculated by tragedy, although not in this case.
    — Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 2 Oct. 2025
  • That means that cheesemakers inoculate the cheese with edible mold that blooms on the outside of the paste.
    — Alex Delany, Bon Appetit, 25 Apr. 2018
  • Malaysia hopes to inoculate 80% of its 33 million people by the end of the year.
    — Eileen Ng, Star Tribune, 31 May 2021
  • Five pounds of spawn can inoculate up to thirty-two square feet, so be sure to have the appropriate amount of available space.
    — Sunset, 22 Jan. 2018
  • No one knows quite what vaccinia is—even as it has been used to inoculate billions of people and saved hundreds of millions of lives.
    — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 26 Aug. 2022
  • Want to be inoculated against the pain of moving from one building to another?
    — Rick Kogan, chicagotribune.com, 8 June 2018
  • McConnell's vocal push to change the blue slip could inoculate from some of that criticism.
    — Ted Barrett, CNN, 11 Oct. 2017
  • The idea that understanding the facts of genetics in this case might inoculate us against false charges of bigotry.
    — Ezra Klein, Vox, 9 Apr. 2018
  • Fledgling plants were still showing signs of stress but less so for the chickpeas inoculated with the helpful fungus.
    — Miriam Fauzia, Discover Magazine, 10 Apr. 2024
  • Deaths attributed to covid-19 have soared in parts of the force as some services struggle to inoculate their troops.
    — Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 11 Oct. 2021
  • The goal is to fully inoculate everyone by the end of the week who was scheduled for a second dose before the winter storm hit.
    — Nic Garcia, Dallas News, 23 Feb. 2021
  • Bees and birds carried soil microbes that inoculated and enriched the terrain.
    — Literary Hub, 19 Feb. 2026
  • The companies must present a plan to inoculate at least 1,000 people per site.
    — Chronicle Staff, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 June 2021
  • Soil that was hauled in was inoculated with the same microbes and mycorrhizal fungi that thrive in the nearby hills.
    — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2026
  • That means the only way to prove that a vaccine works is to inoculate people in a place where the virus is spreading naturally around them.
    — David D. Kirkpatrick, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2020
  • Anyone who has worked the red carpet for years will be inoculated against the spiteful tabloid comments about a glimpse of cellulite, or a stray gray hair.
    — Daisy Goodwin, Time, 17 May 2018

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