CONTAGION in sample sentences

After fifty laps, one guy quit, and since quitting is contagious, three other boys caught the disease and walked off the court, too.

Sherman Alexie -- The Absolutlely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

With such precautions the courtiers might bid defiance to contagion.

Edgar Allan Poe -- The Masque of the Red Death

I made some of you reading this yawn simply by writing the word "yawn." The people who yawned when they saw you yawn, meanwhile, were infected by the sight of you yawning — which is a second kind of contagion.

Malcolm Gladwell -- The Tipping Point

Kitchen-Girl’s fear is contagious, and I hurriedly pour water from the kettle into the mug on the tray.

Sabaa Tahir -- An Ember in the Ashes

Next to her, both Lauren and Eileen are angled slightly away, as though they don’t want to be associated with her, as though she has some contagious disease.

Lauren Oliver -- Before I Fall

Suddenly the boeuf boy leans away, as if unwinding is contagious.

Neal Shusterman -- Unwind

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"Viral Contagion Threat," Brenda answered before Thomas could ask her.

James Dashner -- The Death Cure

Her smile, I still believe, had never been more contagious in its joy than it was that summer.

Nicholas Sparks -- The Longest Ride

It was contagious.

Kiera Cass -- The One

A label below the symbol said: Virus VC321xb47 Highly Contagious 24 Darts, Extreme Caution Mark suddenly wished he hadn’t touched the thing.

James Dashner -- The Kill Order

Or maybe the statue’s look is contagious.

Gayle Forman -- Where She Went

Beebi’s laugh was that contagious.

Rainbow Rowell -- Eleanor & Park

Some of the children watched from outside the door, keeping their distance in case whatever these people suffered from was contagious.

Ransom Riggs -- Hollow City

Hata is, literally, "flag," and a "black flag," or kurohata, is the banner a village would raise by its gate in olden times to warn of a contagion within.

Chang-rae Lee -- A Gesture Life

Fear is contagious.

Susan Ee -- Angelfall

They must’ve known that Clarke would be curious, but since the illness was probably contagious, they’d lied to Clarke to keep her safe.

Kass Morgan -- The 100

"It’s not like wires are contagious," Cinder muttered to her empty booth.

Marissa Meyer -- Cinder

Are they contagious?

Rick Riordan -- The Trials of Apollo

We’re probably not contagious.

Trenton Lee Stewart -- The Mysterious Benedict Society

If only patience were contagious like mumps.

Elizabeth George Speare -- The Witch of Blackbird Pond

"It isn’t contagious.

Pam Munoz Ryan -- Esperanza Rising

Yet just one glance at each other and we were lost, slumping on the table in helpless, contagious laughter.

Mildred D. Taylor -- Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

Charles Wallace, holding her hand tightly, was look— ing around, too, and suddenly he laughed, his own, sweet, contagious laugh.

Madeleine L’Engle -- A Wrinkle in Time

With their telephone switched off and Contagious Disease added to the No Visitors sign, the bomb victims had privacy at last.

Ellen Raskin -- The Westing Game

Somehow, this form of high-pitched laughter is contagious, because Mai is now giggling.

Holly Goldberg Sloan -- Counting by 7s

And Mrs. Daugherty, who kept her kids back from the front door like I was contagious and who didn’t even answer the door.

Gary D. Schmidt -- Okay for Now

Fear is contagious.

Neil Gaiman -- The Graveyard Book

His enthusiasm about whatever movie or play he had seen recently was contagious.

Ji-Li Jiang -- Red Scarf Girl

In another half second her father’s hands are in her armpits, swinging her up, and Marie-Laure smiles, and he laughs a pure, contagious laugh, one she will try to remember all her life, father and daughter turning in circles on the sidewalk in front of their apartment house, laughing together while snow sifts through the branches above.

Anthony Doerr -- All the Light We Cannot See

I know the deliria isn’t like a cold—you can’t get it from being sneezed on—but still, it’s contagious, and when I woke up the day after our meeting at East End with my limbs still heavy and my head as light as a bubble and an ache in my throat that refused to go away, my first thought was that I’d been infected.

Lauren Oliver -- Delirium

"Prisoner’s condition contagious to others in cell."

Corrie Ten Boom -- The Hiding Place

Because they thought IRAN was a contagious disease.

Alexandra Bracken -- The Darkest Minds

I’m sure Sophie missed many of the nuances of his act, but affected by the general contagion, joined me in filling Flatbush Avenue with noisy runaway laughter.

William Styron -- Sophie’s Choice

And my mascara, but only if you swear you don’t have a contagious eye disease."

Becca Fitzpatrick -- Hush, Hush

They would take the longest way around me to avoid bumping into me in any way, like I had some germ they could catch, like my face was contagious.

R.J. Palacio -- Wonder

His sadness is contagious, sending an ache over me.

Victoria Aveyard -- Red Queen

And hers was a loud, contagious laugh that surprised you at first, caught you right off guard and made it impossible for you to even consider not joining in.

John Corey Whaley -- Nogin

Any sort of contagious disease would spread through this place like wildfire.

Suzanne Collins -- Mockingjay

They clammed up and stood aside as Tally passed, as if she were contagious.

Scott Westerfeld -- Uglies

And that would not be so bad, only for the deadly contagion.

Upton Sinclair -- The Jungle

Tension is contagious, you know.

Ayn Rand -- The Fountainhead

Although, against the sterile bandage, the hem of his undershorts looks filthy and teeming with contagion.

Suzanne Collins -- The Hunger Games

The doctor said it was pretty contagious.

Todd Burpo -- Heaven Is for Real

Among worldly people manner is contagious.

Alexandre Dumas -- The Count of Monte Cristo

My embarrassment was contagious.

Yann Martel -- Life of Pi

Like decorating my windowsill with flowers every day for a week when I was contagious with the chicken pox.

Gayle Forman -- If I Stay