How to Use inoculation in a Sentence

inoculation

noun
  • Still, mass inoculation will take at least four to six months.
    — TheWeek, 29 Nov. 2020
  • The vaccines don’t have to stay frozen right up to the time of inoculation.
    — Mark Fischetti, Scientific American, 19 Nov. 2020
  • If there were an inoculation for this plague, the anti-vax crowd won the day.
    — Gary Thompson, kansascity.com, 7 June 2017
  • People who have signed up for an inoculation might cancel at the last minute or simply fail to show up.
    — Courtney Astolfi, cleveland, 26 Feb. 2021
  • But the search for inoculation brings up a host of new dilemmas, because the stakes are higher.
    — Emily Brindley, courant.com, 7 Mar. 2021
  • Recovery will be slow and is likely to track the pace of inoculation.
    — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Dec. 2020
  • Rapid mutations and imperfect inoculations mean that the virus is in charge, at least for now.
    — Abhijit V. Banerjee, Foreign Affairs, 21 Jan. 2022
  • Wharf refused to ask customers for proof of inoculation, the city shut down its indoor dining.
    — New York Times, 2 Dec. 2021
  • Use of that inoculation was halted in early April over rare blood clot reports.
    — Olivia Krauth, The Courier-Journal, 12 Aug. 2021
  • For all the things buffeting markets right now, none is more important than the race to find an inoculation to the virus.
    — Vildana Hajric, Bloomberg.com, 24 Sep. 2020
  • The two scientists’ work became the basis for a new type of inoculation.
    — Naomi Kresge, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2023
  • The move has contributed to a sense of confusion and anger among those who now find themselves at the back of the line for inoculation.
    — New York Times, 15 Jan. 2021
  • So he was stuck in limbo for a while, weighing the benefits of inoculation against his concerns.
    — Bethany Rodgers, The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 Aug. 2021
  • Bauer said the newness of the vaccine may be one of the reasons the inoculation rate among younger children lags behind teens and adults.
    — Steve Sadin, chicagotribune.com, 11 Feb. 2022
  • That’s where the stress inoculation of our training comes in, to get you into the mindset to understand that this is not sports.
    — Ian Douglass, Men's Health, 28 Apr. 2022
  • About the same number looked upon the inoculations as a great experience and a treat.
    — sandiegouniontribune.com, 17 Apr. 2018
  • One of the fitness requirements is inoculation against a host of diseases.
    — Sig Christenson, San Antonio Express-News, 9 Dec. 2021
  • By the new year, the largest inoculation effort in human history is expected to be in full swing.
    — New York Times, 27 Dec. 2020
  • That means the testing and inoculation requirements in the ports of call that your cruise will visit remain in effect.
    — Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 3 Sep. 2022
  • After a glow of hope when the first vaccines were approved last month, the nation's inoculation campaign has gotten off to a slow start.
    — Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar and Zeke Miller, Chron, 10 Jan. 2021
  • The roll-out marked the start of one of the most ambitious inoculation campaigns in recent history.
    — ExpressNews.com, 16 Dec. 2020
  • Washington gambled that losing some to inoculation was better than losing a war to the virus.
    — Katrine L. Wallace, The Conversation, 24 June 2026
  • Washington gambled that losing some to inoculation was better than losing a war to the virus.
    — Katrine L. Wallace, The Conversation, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Canada has one of the highest inoculation rates in the Group of 20 nations.
    — Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2021
  • There are the ones who give their children routine vaccines but are hesitant about the Covid inoculation.
    — Sumathi Reddy, WSJ, 17 May 2021
  • While the shot is approved in the EU, the inoculation campaign hasn’t started.
    — Naomi Kresge, Fortune, 13 Apr. 2021
  • Both are located in ZIP codes with some of the lowest rates of inoculation in the city.
    — Lisa Donovan, chicagotribune.com, 24 June 2021
  • The vaccine is being made available to most of those in Group 1B of the state’s inoculation plan.
    — Liz Hardaway, ExpressNews.com, 2 Jan. 2021
  • Millions of infants in Africa and Asia receive the inoculation each year.
    — Viviane Callier, Scientific American, 19 Jan. 2023
  • In many countries that have had vaccines in hand for the better part of a year, inoculation rates still aren’t close to 100 percent.
    — Rachel Gutman, The Atlantic, 1 Dec. 2021

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