How to Use rhinovirus in a Sentence

rhinovirus

noun
  • The team then tried to infect these nasal cells with rhinoviruses.
    — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 24 Jan. 2026
  • Sometimes a common cold virus, like rhinovirus, is in the mix.
    — Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Los Angeles Times, 2 Jan. 2024
  • There is no vaccine for the common cold, which is caused by rhinoviruses.
    — Eduardo Cuevas, USA TODAY, 16 Dec. 2024
  • Women who have not yet gone through menopause had a stronger immune response to rhinovirus than those from men of the same age.
    — Max Londberg, kansascity, 12 Dec. 2017
  • The cold, which is usually caused by the rhinovirus, comes in many different forms.
    — Nathan Bomey, USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2020
  • There are more than 170 rhinoviruses known to science.
    — Veronique Greenwood, Time, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Four of the eight samples contained the rhinovirus or adenovirus, which both cause cold-like symptoms.
    — Martine Powers, The Seattle Times, 4 Sep. 2018
  • Matintalo is proof that any contest with the rhinovirus is a gamble, even for someone who bets with care.
    — David Segal, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2018
  • But the rhinovirus, the most ubiquitous cause of the common cold, is the challenger every athlete here has been dreading.
    — David Segal, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2018
  • Studies have shown that zinc lozenges or syrup adhere to the mouth and throat, placing zinc directly in contact with rhinoviruses.
    — Ayesha Gulzar, Verywell Health, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Most colds are transmited by a type of rhinovirus, according to the Mayo Clinic.
    — Korin Miller, SELF, 20 Mar. 2018
  • The common cold is typically caused by rhinoviruses.
    — Ciara McCarthy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 Dec. 2025
  • Of the samples taken at the desks and glass dividers at the airport’s passport control checkpoint, one in three contained the rhinovirus.
    — Martine Powers, The Seattle Times, 4 Sep. 2018
  • Also, rhinoviruses are still the most common kind of cold during the summer months, and their symptoms don’t vary from season to season.
    — Markham Heid, Time, 21 June 2017
  • And, the azelastine group had a lower incidence of infection with the common cold (rhinovirus).
    — New Atlas, 2 Sep. 2025
  • While the biggest surge in human rhinovirus infections occurs in the fall, springtime also ushers in a second peak season for common colds.
    — Markham Heid, Time, 19 Mar. 2018
  • Although more study is needed of coronavirus, in one study of rhinovirus, which causes the common cold, a small dose of virus was placed on a participant’s finger.
    — Tara Parker-Pope, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2020
  • Additionally, there was a lower incidence of rhinovirus infections (such as those that cause the common cold).
    — Tom Gavin, EverydayHealth.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • For a rhinovirus, that’s huge—a 24-hour delay means the virus can double its numbers multiple times before neighboring cells get the message.
    — Veronique Greenwood, Time, 27 Feb. 2026
  • But if rhinoviruses are relatively benign for most people, infection can be deadly for others.
    — Veronique Greenwood, Time, 27 Feb. 2026
  • To test this, the researchers challenged all the participants’ immune systems by squirting rhinovirus—the virus behind the common cold—into their noses.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 6 June 2017
  • She's landed back in the hospital several times with rhinovirus, a blood infection, and several bouts of pneumonia.
    — Barbara Brody, Health.com, 19 Nov. 2019
  • Due to the unique shape of the rhinovirus as well as the nutrient, zinc is able to literally attach itself to the virus, and prevent it from further infecting the person.
    — Claire Maldarelli, Popular Science, 7 Apr. 2020
  • The incubation period for rhinovirus ranges from 12 hours to three days, according to Medscape.
    — Mary Kilpatrick, cleveland, 11 Feb. 2020
  • Adenovirus Adenovirus can cause cold symptoms that typically persist longer than colds from rhinovirus—sometimes lasting weeks or months.
    — Brandi Jones, Msn-Ed, Health, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Predominantly, those cases have been the common cold rhinoviruses and influenza.
    — Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Well, this research team from Yale found that their laboratory noses could produce interferons that could then keep the rhinovirus from infecting cells and thus limit the spread of the virus.
    — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 24 Jan. 2026
  • But researchers may have identified a compound that can stop some of the most common cold viruses, the rhinovirus, in its tracks, according to a new report published in the journal Nature.
    — Sy Mukherjee, Fortune, 14 May 2018
  • In the last few years, however, advances in molecular genetics have afforded scientists insights into the rhinovirus, the most common cause of the common cold.
    — Richard Klasco, M.d., New York Times, 30 Mar. 2018
  • The common cold is an upper respiratory tract infection caused by different viruses, most commonly rhinovirus.
    — Heather Jones, Verywell Health, 3 Oct. 2024

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