How to Use pandemic in a Sentence

pandemic

1 of 2 adjective
  • Growth has not slowed since the pandemic surge.
    — Hanna Wickes, Kansas City Star, 18 June 2026
  • Still, there are not as many as the peak days pre-pandemic.
    — Marisa Meltzer, Vanity Fair, 14 Jan. 2026
  • That was the case in both pre- and post-pandemic years.
    — Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 3 Feb. 2026
  • That was the case in both pre- and post-pandemic years.
    — Kate Armanini, Chicago Tribune, 26 Jan. 2026
  • The pandemic brought changes as well.
    — Pamela Chelin, Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 2026
  • That stopped when the pandemic hit.
    — Brad Schmitt, The Tennessean, 29 Aug. 2025
  • The number was steady for years, but then the pandemic hit.
    — Danielle Chemtob, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • When the pandemic hit, a lot of creatives froze.
    — Kimberly Wilson, Essence, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Miss the pandemic era of working from home?
    — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 17 Feb. 2026
  • For buyers who took out car loans in the pandemic years, those trend lines do not bode well.
    — Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 15 Oct. 2025
  • But in the meantime, the pandemic hit.
    — Regina Elling, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 June 2026
  • The numbers haven't bounced back post-pandemic.
    — Keith Matheny, Freep.com, 30 Oct. 2025
  • But when the pandemic hit, the Steins were forced to change tactics.
    — Karen Billing, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The pandemic reset the cost of buying a home.
    — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 17 June 2026
  • This comes as one-time pandemic relief aid has expired.
    — Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Former pandemic boom towns seemed to be hardest hit.
    — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Feb. 2026
  • All grades are still behind compared to pre-pandemic scores.
    — NPR, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Your strength through the pandemic reporting blew me away.
    — Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Mar. 2026
  • The blame goes to the pandemic and the Russian war in Ukraine.
    — Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Sep. 2025
  • For some people, their pandemic pup came with a little bit of sticker shock.
    — Justin Ray, Robb Report, 16 May 2023
  • Both companies were hit hard by the pandemic, when cruising ground to a halt.
    — Kevin Rozario, Forbes.com, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Delta is poised to surpass to surpass its pre-pandemic earnings per share next year.
    — Timothy Seymour, CNBC, 23 Mar. 2026
  • Just a few years out from the pandemic-era housing boom, the market is stumbling.
    — Samantha Delouya, CNN Money, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Statewide scores improved, but not to pre-pandemic levels.
    — Rebecca Noel, Charlotte Observer, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Zillow chalks it up to the effects of the pandemic housing boom.
    — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 17 June 2026
  • And some who objected to the pandemic response are now in charge.
    — Rob Stein, NPR, 4 June 2026
  • Yet despite the deficit, city and state funding has increased since the pandemic era.
    — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 18 Mar. 2026
  • Today's teens were children when the pandemic hit.
    — Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 7 May 2026
  • Many metro areas that saw surges in the post-pandemic housing boom have fallen sharply.
    — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Oct. 2025
  • The shift marks the end of the pandemic’s geographic free-for-all.
    — Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2025

pandemic

2 of 2 noun
  • The 1918 flu pandemic claimed millions of lives.
  • And the pandemic forced him to live at home for the better part of a year.
    — Shirley Halperin, Rolling Stone, 2 July 2026
  • There was a pandemic in the middle of that.
    — Joshua Rothkopf, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2026
  • But the pandemic took its toll, and crowds have thinned in recent years.
    — John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 6 Apr. 2026
  • The gala got wiped out because of the pandemic.
    — David Wade, CBS News, 17 Mar. 2026
  • The scam took place during the pandemic.
    — Brian Womack, Dallas Morning News, 9 Jan. 2026
  • The pandemic had closed in by then, and people were staying at home.
    — Emily M. Olson, Hartford Courant, 3 May 2026
  • This has been the best summer for movie ticket sales since the start of the pandemic.
    — Jon Passantino, CNN, 2 Aug. 2023
  • As is clear, with ups and down, the rate kept falling until the pandemic.
    — Erik Sherman, Forbes.com, 27 Jan. 2026
  • First, the pandemic, followed by the strikes.
    — Gary Baum, HollywoodReporter, 2 Oct. 2025
  • The cost of gas, lodging and recreation have all risen sharply since the pandemic.
    — Joel Rose, NPR, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Japan has broken its tourism record every year since the pandemic.
    — Lilit Marcus, CNN Money, 27 June 2026
  • Health care How has the price changed since before the pandemic?
    — Maria Aspan, NPR, 16 Oct. 2025
  • That was the start of the h2N1 pandemic.
    — Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 2 Mar. 2026
  • Things have arguably gotten much worse since the pandemic.
    — Literary Hub, 22 Oct. 2025
  • As the pandemic heated up, so did the demand for homes in warmer-weather places.
    — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 9 Jan. 2024
  • For more than two years, plans to return to Niger were scuttled by the pandemic.
    — Paul C. Sereno, The Conversation, 16 Mar. 2026
  • For many of the students, the fire followed the upheaval of the pandemic.
    — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 23 May 2026
  • Maybe the market has learned to look through things, taking a lesson from the pandemic.
    — Merryn Somerset Webb, Bloomberg, 25 Apr. 2026
  • Mai agrees that the brand benefited from the pandemic in some ways.
    — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 12 Oct. 2023
  • That number has climbed steadily since the pandemic.
    — Jake Angelo, Fortune, 14 Apr. 2026
  • When the pandemic arrived, an entire world was brought to a standstill.
    — Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2025
  • One event that could have influenced the data is the pandemic.
    — Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 24 Apr. 2026
  • The run was ultimately cut short due to the pandemic.
    — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 23 Mar. 2026
  • So the pandemic really hit me hard.
    — David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 16 May 2026
  • Candy How has the price changed since before the pandemic?
    — Alina Selyukh, NPR, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The pandemic forced many to work remotely.
    — Chicago Tribune, 16 May 2026
  • Many firms hired aggressively after the pandemic and no longer need to fill more jobs.
    — Christopher Rugaber, Fortune, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Torres would spend a lot of time watching cooking shows while the world was shut down during the pandemic.
    — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2 July 2026
  • The pandemic weighed on the timeline, too, forcing a delay of roughly a year and a half.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 June 2026

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