How to Use severe acute respiratory syndrome in a Sentence

severe acute respiratory syndrome

noun
  • That wouldn’t have been a problem if the virus could have been contained or eradicated, like the one that causes severe acute respiratory syndrome.
    — Karen Kaplanscience and Medicine Editor, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2022
  • Sotrovimab is an antibody that was identified in the blood of a patient who had recovered from the first severe acute respiratory syndrome virus, which emerged nearly two decades ago.
    — Carolyn Y. Johnson, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Dec. 2021
  • That gives it a common ancestor with the SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) virus.
    — Michael J. Coren, Quartz, 26 Jan. 2020
  • There were the anthrax attacks and the global panic over severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS.
    — Grant Delin, Discover Magazine, 11 May 2012
  • But the 2003 outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) may have left some survivors with a gift.
    — Jon Cohen, Science | AAAS, 18 Aug. 2021
  • Since then, convalescent plasma has been used to fight measles and severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, among other diseases.
    — oregonlive, 11 July 2020
  • That wasn't the case with severe acute respiratory syndrome, a similar coronavirus that began spreading in China in 2002 and was contained the next year.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 12 Mar. 2020
  • The technical name for the novel coronavirus, which is in the same family as the virus that causes SARS, or severe acute respiratory syndrome.
    — cleveland, 12 Mar. 2020
  • It was included in the covid-19 trial because steroids were tried as a treatment for SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome), a related lung disease, with mixed results.
    — The Economist, 20 June 2020
  • One is the fact that immune protection against the COVID-19 from either getting vaccinated or infected by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 starts waning at the four-to-six month mark.
    — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2025
  • So that accounts for the original severe acute respiratory syndrome, SARS, in 2002, another coronavirus, Middle Eastern respiratory syndrome, in 2012, then of course COVID-19, which was also known as the SARS-2 coronavirus, then Ebola epidemics and now this hantavirus outbreak.
    — Dana Taylor, USA Today, 20 May 2026

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