How to Use uninfected in a Sentence

uninfected

adjective
  • The agency made clear that only the uninfected would be allowed to fly back.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 21 Feb. 2020
  • The uninfected controls made up the final three of eight groups, with the controls assigned to one of the three eras.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 18 July 2024
  • The uninfected guinea pig got the flu, courtesy of the particles that came over from the immune guinea pig’s cage.
    — Popular Science, 18 Aug. 2020
  • The influenza and uninfected hamsters dug the treats straight up.
    — Jason Mast, STAT, 13 June 2022
  • The experts raised an alarm about the lack of space inside the prison to isolate the infected from the uninfected.
    — Jason Fagone, SFChronicle.com, 24 June 2020
  • Infected humans can serve as a source of the virus for uninfected mosquitoes.
    — Abdur Rahman Jahangir, BostonGlobe.com, 31 July 2019
  • The infected and uninfected ferrets shared air, but did not have direct contact with each other.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 10 June 2024
  • The amount of acetophenone on the infected mice was found to be 10 times higher than on the uninfected ones.
    — Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 3 July 2022
  • To test whether these sperm changes had lasting consequences, the infected male mice were bred with healthy, uninfected females.
    — New Atlas, 13 Oct. 2025
  • If someone in an uninfected dorm turns up positive, the inmate is moved into a positive group.
    — Grace Schneider, The Courier-Journal, 6 Aug. 2020
  • But as the number of cases swell, space to isolate the positive inmates from the uninfected is shrinking.
    — Sarah Nelson, The Indianapolis Star, 5 May 2021
  • This latter claim led some uninfected people to hoard the drug, take it, and tragically caused at least one person to die from an overdose.
    — Ezekiel Emanuel, CNN, 5 May 2021
  • Instead, keeping groups small can reduce the number of uninfected people who come into contact with the virus.
    — National Geographic, 19 Mar. 2020
  • Attack rate is the number of people who become ill with or die from the disease compared to the number of people uninfected.
    — Anne Saker, Cincinnati.com, 25 Mar. 2020
  • The extremely vulnerable and the as-yet-uninfected would be safe.
    — Melissa Healystaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2020
  • Both of those restrictions were meant to keep plague doctors from carrying the disease to uninfected people.
    — Kiona N. Smith, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2021
  • If mice were scarcer, larval ticks, which are always born uninfected, might feed on other mammals and bird species that do not carry germs harmful to humans.
    — Amy Harmon, New York Times, 2 Aug. 2017
  • The virus spreads when an infected person sneezes or releases other discharges that contact the eyes, nose or mouth of an uninfected child.
    — Mark Johnson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10 Jan. 2020
  • At this stage, even uninfected B cells will join the fight and trigger the inflammatory response.
    — New Atlas, 21 Nov. 2025
  • Moreover, the queens and the infected workers were expressing more of a gene called silver, but the uninfected workers were not.
    — Viviane Callier, Quanta Magazine, 10 Jan. 2023
  • Authorizing a vaccine, on the other hand, might lead to use in hundreds of millions of uninfected people.
    — Robert Langreth, Bloomberg.com, 22 Sep. 2020
  • But as daily infections in the city soared, some were asked to stay with their uninfected roommates until more transport could be arranged, said two workers.
    — Fortune, 27 May 2022
  • Over the next five years more than three quarters of the uninfected partners contracted HIV.
    — William A. Haseltine, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2020
  • Because the virus spreads easily and can kill birds quickly, farmers usually have to cull even uninfected birds to prevent a wider outbreak.
    — Jen Christensen, CNN, 3 Apr. 2024
  • So the rate at which a virus spreads is proportional to the number of infected people and the number who remain uninfected and not immune.
    — Eugenia Cheng, WSJ, 3 June 2021
  • The uninfected students and staff are left to reign in the chaos and get to the bottom of the illness — a possible government experiment gone wrong.
    — Kevin Cassidy, HollywoodReporter, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Even still, a second part of the study saw 200 subjects looking through a mass of photos of infected and uninfected people.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 4 Aug. 2022
  • Wolves infected with the parasite were more likely to be pack leaders and 11 times more likely to disperse from the pack than uninfected wolves.
    — Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 25 Nov. 2022
  • The infected Halsey sailors are being isolated, and the uninfected crew members remain aboard, the Navy said.
    — James Hookway, WSJ, 27 Dec. 2021
  • And Mullen’s reaction, in contrast to some of his college football coaching colleagues, has been a breath of fresh (and hopefully uninfected) air.
    — Mike Bianchi, orlandosentinel.com, 26 Aug. 2021

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