How to Use coronavirus in a Sentence

coronavirus

noun
  • Chevron made the deal when crude prices were down more than 30% in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.
    Michelle Chapman, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Oct. 2023
  • The 2024 Summer Games will be the first to take place out from under the shadow of the coronavirus pandemic.
    Brian Steinberg, Variety, 11 May 2023
  • Anti-Asian hate crimes decreased for the first time since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.
    Josh Feldman, NBC News, 29 Oct. 2023
  • The show skidded off track in 2020 — canceled at the last minute because of the coronavirus outbreak — and had been stalled until now.
    James Brooks and Jamey Keaten, Quartz, 26 Feb. 2024
  • In early 2020, when the coronavirus was still a distant concern, my wife and I booked an AirAsia flight to Bali.
    Mac Schwerin, The Atlantic, 14 June 2023
  • In the fall of 2020, before the United States presidential election, the world was still in the thick of the coronavirus pandemic.
    Lauretta Charlton, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2024
  • That huge census project was meant to take place in 2021, but was delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic, and has been stalled ever since.
    Rhea Mogul, CNN, 21 Sep. 2023
  • Moran plans to wear an N95 mask on the plane, skip indoor restaurants and pack coronavirus tests and the antiviral treatment Paxlovid in her suitcase.
    Fenit Nirappil, Aara'l Yarber and Sheila Regan, Anchorage Daily News, 25 June 2023
  • The government is mailing out the coronavirus tests as the the flu season kicks off and a spike in RSV cases has been reported in some spots around the country.
    Amanda Seitz, Fortune Well, 20 Nov. 2023
  • Because of the coronavirus pandemic, the building was closed at the time to the public and members of the news media who regularly cover the court.
    Mark Sherman, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Despite being ready to tie the knot in May 2020, the couple had to reschedule their big day multiple times amid the coronavirus pandemic.
    Jennifer Nied, Women's Health, 15 June 2023
  • That was an election about the coronavirus pandemic, about George Floyd protests, things that were happening here.
    ABC News, 8 Oct. 2023
  • And apart from during the coronavirus pandemic when the court was closed, the justices almost always read summaries of their opinions in the courtroom.
    Mark Sherman, Fortune, 4 Mar. 2024
  • The rate at which reported coronavirus tests are coming back positive is up statewide — to 14%.
    Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2023
  • The programs became more popular in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic.
    Luz Lazo, Washington Post, 24 Nov. 2023
  • In recent years, more families have signed up for the program, in part due to expansions that occurred at the height of the coronavirus pandemic.
    Grace Segers, The New Republic, 8 Sep. 2023
  • The vaccines have been given to hundreds of millions of people around the world, a key step toward easing the coronavirus pandemic.
    Naomi Kresge, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2023
  • After her death in 2020, during the coronavirus pandemic, mourners passed by her casket outside the building, on the portico at the top of the steps.
    CBS News, 18 Dec. 2023
  • The restaurant has been closed since mid-March 2020, when dining rooms shuttered for safety precautions at the start of the coronavirus pandemic.
    Sarah Blaskovich, Dallas News, 27 June 2023
  • Rampant turnover Pharmacies across the country found themselves under siege as the coronavirus pandemic took hold in the spring of 2020.
    Marty Schladen, The Enquirer, 11 July 2023
  • Tesla initially planned first deliveries for late 2021, but the coronavirus pandemic got in the way and the date was pushed to the following year.
    Aarian Marshall, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Thanks to its early adoption of widespread vaccination, Israel was one of the first countries in the world to emerge from the coronavirus pandemic.
    Anshel Pfeffer, The Atlantic, 27 Mar. 2024
  • For the most recent reading, dated Saturday, coronavirus levels in the San José sewershed fell to 49% of the peak from two winters ago.
    Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2024
  • Remote working took hold during the coronavirus pandemic and while many people have returned to the office, many have not.
    Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Jan. 2024
  • The successive blows of the coronavirus pandemic and the war in Ukraine, which pushed up fuel and food prices, have exposed Bangladesh’s overreliance on one industry.
    Saif Hasnat, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2024
  • As lifestyles shifted due to the coronavirus pandemic, our homes had to adapt to new activities and routines.
    Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Aug. 2023
  • The university’s use of the courts ballooned during the coronavirus pandemic.
    Casey Tolan, CNN, 8 Sep. 2023
  • In the wake of the coronavirus outbreak in early 2020, state and local government agencies imposed wide-ranging business shutdowns to combat the spread of the deadly virus.
    George Avalos, The Mercury News, 6 Feb. 2024
  • It was originally slated to be held In November last year, but was pushed back amid a rise in worldwide coronavirus cases.
    oregonlive, 13 June 2023
  • How did our spending change after the coronavirus pandemic?
    Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 5 Apr. 2024

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