Sample Sentences for
measles
(editor-reviewed)

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    Last year they brought in that case of measles, and that's serious.†  (source)
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    The doctor took a look and said it wasn't chicken pox and it wasn't measles.†  (source)
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    They'd met in a doctor's office, both of them dotted with measles.†  (source)
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    'The boy had had a mild case of the measles when he was twelve, reported his mother.†  (source)
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    You been mopin' 'round here for the past week like you got the whoopin' cough, flu, and measles all put together.†  (source)
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    It's my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting, and for the millionth time in my life I wish for measles or smallpox or some other recognizable disease just to make it simple for me and also for them.†  (source)
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    She drew back her shoulder blades as if preparing for a measles shot—something painful but necessary.†  (source)
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    He accepted it, he said, "like the measles."†  (source)
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    It's going hungry, and getting the measles and pneumonia from sleeping in the wet.†  (source)
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    She had the measles a short time before they carried her to jail, and the disease had left her eyes affected.†  (source)
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    "I do think it was the most fortunate thing in the world that those children should have the measles just now," said Meg, one April day, as she stood packing the 'go abroady' trunk in her room, surrounded by her sisters.†  (source)
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    I sympathised a while; but when the children fell ill of the measles, and I had to tend them, and take on me the cares of a woman at once, I changed my ideas.†  (source)
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    I missed my grandmother when I had the measles.†  (source)
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