Sample sentences for INOCULATE

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Definition

vaccinate (inject or otherwise introduce a weakened germ or other substance to immunize)

or metaphorically to indicate protection via previous exposure — as in "She was inoculated against those dangerous ideas by early exposure in a safe environment."

You have a vaccine; we should be inoculated at once!
Ted Dekker -- Black: The Birth of Evil

De Becker, whose firm provides security for public figures, puts his bodyguards through a program of what he calls stress inoculation.
Malcolm Gladwell -- Blink

(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)

They were merely inoculating a community against an outbreak.
Arundhati Roy -- The God of Small Things
That night, after dinner, they performed the inoculation, a lengthy process, without getting the slightest reaction.
Albert Camus -- The Plague

They are giving themselves a sad malady; they are inoculating themselves with the past.
Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
And they had not only inoculated their military, they were performing forced inoculations as fast as they could get the nannites distributed.
John Ringo -- Live Free or Die
Nita's informant among the GPs provided her with the inoculation serum months ago.
Veronica Roth -- Allegiant

I long regretted bitterly, and still regret that I had not given it to him by inoculation.
Benjamin Franklin -- The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

So the strict, book-based religion of the deuteronomists inoculated the Hebrews against the Asherah virus.
Neal Stephenson -- Snow Crash
When he launched a crusade against an outbreak of malaria, Celia inoculated schoolchildren.
Christina Garcia -- Dreaming in Cuban
You should not have believ'd me; for virtue cannot so inoculate our old stock but we shall relish of it: I loved you not.
William Shakespeare -- Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
One month after the experiments, almost none of the subjects — a mere 3 percent — had actually gone to the health center to get inoculated.
Malcolm Gladwell -- The Tipping Point
They worked two days in the holdingpens branding and earmarking and castrating and dehorning and inoculating.
Cormac McCarthy -- All the Pretty Horses
Weeping mothers brought bawling children to the health center for inoculation.
Betty Smith -- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Salk would inoculate 2 million children and the NFIP would test their blood to see if they'd become immune.
Rebecca Skloot -- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
But the boredom of regime and hygiene repelled him, and after inoculating a man for enteric, he would go away and drink unfiltered water himself.
E.M. Forster -- A Passage to India
Why didn't he get on with it, on to the entertainingly dreadful moment of inoculating the pig?
Sinclair Lewis -- Arrowsmith
"Tropical workers start being inoculated at Metre 150," Mr. Foster explained to the students.
Aldous Huxley -- Brave New World
John had known him since the smallpox epidemic of 1764, when John had gone to Boston to be inoculated.
David McCullough -- John Adams
He took him into business and tried to inoculate him with the joys of buying and selling, of outwitting other men, of judging them for a bluff, of living by maneuver.
John Steinbeck -- East of Eden

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