How to Use pandemic in a Sentence

pandemic

1 of 2 adjective

• Last year’s record decline in the homicide rate brings to an end the spikes that occurred during the pandemic years.
  — Jacob Turcotte, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Jan. 2024
• But some of the headlines about the amount of fraud in pandemic assistance are likely overblown.
  — Patrick T. Brown, CNN, 28 Jan. 2023
• This marks an increase of up to 32% from pre-pandemic levels.
  — Nancy Chen, Analisa Novak, CBS News, 22 Mar. 2023
• And that in itself is the result of the weird post-pandemic economic cycle.
  — Peter Vanham, Fortune, 3 Feb. 2023
• But again, these pandemic responses were not the root cause.
  — Richard Werner, Fortune, 20 Mar. 2023
• As a result, the E.U. will most likely not disperse the pandemic-relief funds to Poland while awaiting the results.
  — Elisabeth Zerofsky, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2023
• For some people, their pandemic pup came with a little bit of sticker shock.
  — Justin Ray, Robb Report, 16 May 2023
• The piece was inspired by the police killing of George Floyd and the civil unrest that sprawled out across the pandemic pressure cooker that was summer 2020.
  — Duante Beddingfield, Detroit Free Press, 5 May 2023
• That was down from 4.68 million a year earlier, and even lower than the levels plumbed right after the pandemic hit.
  — Justin Lahart, WSJ, 21 Oct. 2023
• In the post-pandemic world, customers are looking for more human engagement in the buying process.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023
• Still, this time may be different, as post-pandemic back-to-office policies do vary.
  — Michelle Cheng, Quartz, 3 Feb. 2023
• This year was also the first year the league was able to operate a season without any pandemic restrictions.
  — Maritza Dominguez, The Arizona Republic, 25 Aug. 2023
• After the pandemic shutdown touring for an extended, many acts are hitting the road in 2023.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 15 June 2023
• Still, the positive reception inspired a new crush of tourists to fill Dali’s shops and streets once pandemic restrictions were dropped.
  — Stephanie Yang, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2023
• San Francisco’s office vacancy rate shot up to a new record high of 29.4% in the first quarter, nearly eight times the pre-pandemic level.
  — Roland Li, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Mar. 2023
• But a pandemic sales boom, caused by masses of people needing to learn how to cook for themselves, made the appliance harder to ignore.
  — Aaron Hutcherson, Washington Post, 14 June 2023
• Many artists have finally shaken out the pandemic cobwebs and are releasing some of the best music of their careers.
  — Spin Staff, SPIN, 21 Dec. 2023
• It: Philips has made everything from beard trimmers to light bulbs to baby bottles and, since the pandemic, cordless water flossers (yay).
  — Annie Blackman, Allure, 2 Apr. 2024
• Federal pandemic aid helped cover those costs, but that funding and the emergency contract expire at the end of this school year.
  — Sara Ruberg, NBC News, 4 Mar. 2023
• Nordstrom closed 16 of its stores under the pressure of pandemic restrictions.
  — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Nov. 2023
• That, too, makes sense: The economy was in a deep recession, but households were being buoyed by trillions of dollars in pandemic aid.
  — David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2023
• Illinois has spent about 32% of its $4.8 billion in federal pandemic relief and is on track to meet the deadline for depleting the funds, Mr. Mohip said.
  — Ben Chapman, WSJ, 24 Jan. 2023
• During the pandemic, much speculation had swirled around the future of Park Tavern, which was long closed, briefly reopened and then shut down again for the remodel in 2021.
  — Elena Kadvany, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 May 2023
• The payment pause on federal loans has been extended eight times since March 2020 as part of a pandemic relief measure.
  — Tara Siegel Bernard, New York Times, 1 June 2023
• If the pandemic housing market was tough for buyers, the post-pandemic housing market might be even tougher.
  — USA TODAY, 20 July 2023
• After ticket sales rebounded to about 67% of pre-pandemic levels last year, the release lineup is steadier and more packed this year.
  — Jake Coyle, Chicago Tribune, 26 Mar. 2023
• Following the pandemic closures, some theaters shut down for good, while others teetered.
  — Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2024
• The planet is no longer in pandemic status, according to the World Health Organization, which declared it over in May.
  — Byerin Prater, Fortune Well, 27 June 2023
• Dang said that receiving racist remarks isn’t new to her, and that during the height of the Covid pandemic verbal attacks became more common on public transit.
  — Kimmy Yam, NBC News, 29 Sep. 2023
• During the pandemic many companies were forced to transition their employees to work from home.
  — Sixteen Ramos, USA TODAY, 23 Aug. 2023

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pandemic

2 of 2 noun

• The 1918 flu pandemic claimed millions of lives.
• This has been the best summer for movie ticket sales since the start of the pandemic.
  — Jon Passantino, CNN, 2 Aug. 2023
• As the pandemic heated up, so did the demand for homes in warmer-weather places.
  — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 9 Jan. 2024
• Live selling is the hot ticket and has been ever since the height of the Covid-19 pandemic when the world was largely hunkered down.
  — Sharon Edelson, Forbes, 15 Feb. 2024
• Mai agrees that the brand benefited from the pandemic in some ways.
  — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 12 Oct. 2023
• The exception to this is reports of change in taste or smell, which declined from 42% early in the pandemic.
  — Alexander Tin, CBS News, 21 Dec. 2023
• Revenue crashed during the pandemic, when travel and car-pooling ground to a halt.
  — Mark Bergen, Fortune Europe, 3 Apr. 2024
• The book itself began life as a way for the sisters to work together during the pandemic.
  — Parul Sehgal, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2024
• Both the price of acquiring public housing on the open market, as well as rents, rose during the pandemic.
  — Lionel Lim, Fortune, 6 Nov. 2023
• The Covid-19 pandemic has also made the option to buy online and pick up in-store more common than ever before.
  — Louryn Strampe, WIRED, 10 July 2023
• Then the world shut down as the Covid-19 pandemic and lockdowns became a new reality.
  — Roslyn Sulcas, New York Times, 2 Aug. 2023
• The agency’s performance during the pandemic left much to be desired, and lost it much public trust.
  — M. Anthony Mills, National Review, 5 Nov. 2023
• Many members entered the workforce during the pandemic, and have been forced to deal with sky-high inflation.
  — Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 22 Mar. 2024
• Being forced indoors due to the Canadian wildfires evoked the lockdown days of the Covid pandemic, albeit with its own twists.
  — Boone Ashworth, WIRED, 25 Aug. 2023
• When the Covid-19 pandemic upended the lives of American consumers, retail storefronts in cities across the U.S. were forced close their doors.
  — Francisco Velasquez, Quartz, 8 Mar. 2024
• While staffing shortage began before 2020, the pandemic was the tipping point for many nurses.
  — Chris Isidore, CNN, 1 Oct. 2023
• The group used to meet in person, eventually switching to Zoom during the pandemic.
  — Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Dec. 2023
• Ottman immediately got to work re-shaping the story with the writers, before the Covid-19 pandemic stalled the project once again.
  — Katcy Stephan, Variety, 15 Apr. 2024
• In addition, New Yorkers who fled to the Hamptons during the pandemic are now facing a return-to-office push that’s putting an end to the work-from-home era.
  — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 3 Nov. 2023
• During the pandemic, Koll fell into ice cream-making out of boredom.
  — Roxana Becerril, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Jan. 2024
• During the pandemic, a wave of US residents migrated to Southern states in search of more space and a lower cost of living.
  — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 12 Oct. 2023
• The pandemic erased two decades of progress in math and reading, and researchers have documented that the poverty rate is the best predictor of the extent of that learning loss.
  — Jem Aswad, Variety, 9 Jan. 2024
• The loss of the longtime stalwarts like downtown’s Blue Whale, which closed during the pandemic, certainly don’t help matters.
  — Brynn Shiovitz, Los Angeles Times, 11 Dec. 2023
• The loans were given to business owners struggling during the pandemic.
  — Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 13 Oct. 2023
• This is the first summer without a reservation system at Yosemite since before the pandemic.
  — Cari Spencer, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2023
• In some cases, Newsom has released people during the pandemic against the wishes of his own parole board.
  — Mackenzie Mays, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2023
• This was a long time coming, originally slated for 2020, but postponed due to the pandemic.
  — Liz Appel, Vogue, 21 July 2023
• Nelson also believes the pandemic kept more sick people at home, and that sick people may be more inclined to travel these days.
  — Natalie B. Compton, Andrea Sachs and Heidi Pérez-Moreno, The Washington Post, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Sep. 2023
• The pandemic also saw an exodus of employees, while health and safety measures slowed the training of new ones.
  — Sam Burros, Peoplemag, 25 Aug. 2023
• Business has boomed since 2021, when existing and new customers alike were largely parked at home during the pandemic and flush with cash as a result.
  — Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 18 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024