Sample Sentences for
AIDS
grouped by contextual meaning
(editor-reviewed)

AIDS as in:  He has AIDS.

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  • I have made important discoveries about the AIDS and Ebola viruses.  (source)
  • Whoever...whatever...attacked me used a type of weapon known in the Core as an AIDS II virus.  (source)
  • I'm surprised the AIDS ain't bit your dick off yet, he says.  (source)
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  • Mothers with AIDS can spread the disease to their babies by breast-feeding them.  (source)
    AIDS = a serious (fatal if not treated) disease of the immune system transmitted through bodily fluids especially by sexual contact or contaminated needles
  • I'm beginning to see the really black side of AIDS that everyone tries to hide.  (source)
  • It's the way people catch AIDS, right?  (source)
  • Need I remind you that this was the age of the R-strain syphilis and also of the infamous AIDS epidemic, which, once they spread to the population at large, eliminated many young sexually active people from the reproductive pool?  (source)
  • And Liberace's manager denied that the entertainer was a victim of AIDS; Liberace's recent weight loss was the result, the manager said, of a watermelon-only diet.  (source)
  • He could have AIDS.  (source)
  • Some sort of AIDS regulation.  (source)
  • Even today, there are a lot of people who believe that some diseases—AIDS, for example—are God's punishment.  (source)
  • They could have been on a dynamite diet but the first thing that came to mind was they got AIDS.  (source)
  • My dad, in particular, was afraid of transfusions because he had read about people getting AIDS or other diseases from tainted blood.  (source)
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meaning too common or too rare to warrant focus

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  • At some point, the Band-Aids I'd applied had fallen off.  (source)
    Aids = part of a product name for a small adhesive bandage
  • The doctors think that eventually he'll need to wear hearing aids, though.  (source)
    aids = people or things that assist with something
  • The Bundt is sitting on the sill, Band-Aids and bandages covering half its body.  (source)
    Aids = part of a product name for a small adhesive bandage
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  • Normally I have trouble just opening Band-Aids.  (source)
    Aids = part of a product name for a small adhesive bandage
  • Well, I can have some sleep aids here tonight if you need them.  (source)
    aids = people or things that assist with something
  • One of his freckled kneecaps is covered with Star Wars Band-Aids.  (source)
    Aids = part of a product name for a small adhesive bandage
  • They joined each other, they crisscrossed, they fanned into every corner of the parchment; then words began to blossom across the top, great, curly green words, that proclaimed: Messrs. Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs Purveyors of Aids to Magical Mischief-Makers are proud to present THE MARAUDER'S MAP It was a map showing every detail of the Hogwarts castle and grounds.  (source)
    Aids = people or things that assist with something
  • I passed on learning aids for fear of appearing condescending.  (source)
  • Some are baggy like soggy Band-Aids after you get out of the bathtub.  (source)
    Aids = part of a product name for a small adhesive bandage
  • And everyone like you who aids and encourages what's happened to us in the last five hundred years.  (source)
    aids = people or things that assist with something
  • Judge Atlee then said, "My hearing aids are working just fine and I'm not stupid."  (source)
  • Then he hands two of the little Band-Aids to Mai and two to Lev.  (source)
    Aids = part of a product name for a small adhesive bandage
  • No, I paid attention to what worked with the boys—like Band-Aids.  (source)
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