Sample Sentences forAIDSgrouped by contextual meaning (editor-reviewed)
AIDS as in: He has AIDS.
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Many people who spread AIDS are unaware that they have HIV.AIDS = a serious (often fatal) disease of the immune system transmitted through bodily fluids especially by sexual contact or contaminated needles
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Look, you're married to a woman and she doesn't have AIDS, chlamydia, syphilis, gonorrhea, or any of the rest of 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
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This started another rumor—that he might have died of AIDS. (source)
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I have made important discoveries about the AIDS and Ebola viruses. (source)
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Whoever...whatever...attacked me used a type of weapon known in the Core as an AIDS II virus. (source)
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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
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I'm beginning to see the really black side of AIDS that everyone tries to hide. (source)
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It's the way people catch AIDS, right? (source)
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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)
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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)
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He could have AIDS. (source)
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Some sort of AIDS regulation. (source)
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Even today, there are a lot of people who believe that some diseases—AIDS, for example—are God's punishment. (source)
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They could have been on a dynamite diet but the first thing that came to mind was they got AIDS. (source)
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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
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The doctors think that eventually he'll need to wear hearing aids, though. (source)aids = people or things that assist with something
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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
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Well, I can have some sleep aids here tonight if you need them. (source)aids = people or things that assist with something
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One of his freckled kneecaps is covered with Star Wars Band-Aids. (source)Aids = part of a product name for a small adhesive bandage
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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
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I passed on learning aids for fear of appearing condescending. (source)
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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
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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
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Judge Atlee then said, "My hearing aids are working just fine and I'm not stupid." (source)
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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
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No, I paid attention to what worked with the boys—like Band-Aids. (source)
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