Sample Sentences formeasles (editor-reviewed)
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She never received a measles vaccination, so we'll have to wait 8 to 12 days to find out if she caught it.measles = a highly contagious viral disease marked by distinct red spots followed by a rash
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It looks like measles. (source)measles = contagious viral disease marked by distinct red spots
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Crying is catching, I believe, like measles and whooping-cough. (source)measles = a highly contagious viral disease marked by distinct red spots followed by a rash; occurs primarily in children and was very common before vaccinations were widely given to prevent it
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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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'The boy had had a mild case of the measles when he was twelve, reported his mother.† (source)
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I missed my grandmother when I had the 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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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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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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