Sample sentences for VIRUS - verbalworkout.com

(click/touch triangles for details)

Definition

a submicroscopic organism that causes disease (by using the cellular reproductive machinery of the organism it invades)

The common cold is caused by a virus.

virus = a submicroscopic organism that causes disease (by using the cellular reproductive machinery of the organism it invades)

Antibiotics don't work against viruses.
The virus mutated, so that this year's flu shot won't protect against it.
She'd picked up a virus, and Evra had to stay in to look after her.
Darren Shan -- A Vampire's Assistant

virus = a submicroscopic organism that causes disease

essentially reprogramming the cell so it reproduces the virus instead of itself.
Rebecca Skloot -- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

virus = a submicroscopic organism that causes disease (by using the cellular reproductive machinery of the organism it invades)

It was actually physical, not unlike a stomach virus.
John Grogan -- Marley & Me
The fair was a "contagion," a "virus," a form of "progressive cerebral meningitis."
Erik Larson -- The Devil in the White City
Madam, we see no end of silent cirrhosis and even liver cancer from this virus.
Abraham Verghese -- Cutting for Stone
"Mum thinks you've got Ebola virus.
Jojo Moyes -- Me Before You
It's like a virus that sneaks around the system, pops out when your resistance is low.
J.D. Robb -- Naked in Death
And in the dream nearly everyone on the earth is dead, because they have caught a virus.
Mark Haddon -- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
Even Adah, who's becoming an expert in tropical epidemiology and strange new viruses.
Barbara Kingsolver -- The Poisonwood Bible
Father Mulligan had died four years ago of viral hepatitis, in an ashram north of Rishikesh.
Arundhati Roy -- The God of Small Things
It started on Thursday when I came down with the H1N1 virus, which at the time everyone was calling "swine flu."
Tim Tebow -- Through My Eyes
As a result, the poor man has become a plague virus.
Mal Peet -- Tamar
Dr. Virus laughed, and briefly I saw the family doctor inside this toughened revolutionary.
Julia Alvarez -- In the Time of the Butterflies
Her coma was caused by a severe case of viral meningitis.
Nicholas Sparks -- The Choice
It was when it showed up, and even now this virus that can mutate in infinite ways to thwart nearly any treatment eludes our efforts to corral it.
Thomas C. Foster -- How to Read Literature Like a Professor
A virus that carries the gene to produce Shiga toxins is now infecting previously harmless strains of E. coli.
Eric Schlosser -- Fast Food Nation
Swallowed a VC virus or something.
Tim O'Brien -- The Things They Carried

Dictionary / pronunciation — Google^®Dictionary list — Onelook.com^®Wikipedia: biological virus Wikipedia: computer virus Pictures — Google Images^®

Search for other examples by interest

Interest — Source