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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    Every rash was either chicken pox or measles.†  (source)
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    All I can think of is the picture in our Catechism of a valentine 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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    Babies came to the county health department with ant bites that looked like measles.†  (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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    The camp organizers set up a table inside where they removed our shoes and shirts and inspected our toes for athlete's foot, checked us for measles and chicken pox, then sent us outside to board a yellow school bus for the long journey to upstate New York.†  (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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    "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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