Examples of nonresistant in a Sentence

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Recent Examples on the Web Over time, the proportion of resistant bacteria will increase as nonresistant bacteria are killed by the antibiotic. — Andre Hudson, The Conversation, 29 Oct. 2021 The complaint accuses the police officers, Jordan Belchamber and Christino Quinonez, of failing to immediately intervene upon seeing Zapata Hernandez being restrained — handcuffed, nonresistant and facedown — on the pavement. — Kristina Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Oct. 2021 Heavy use of antibiotics, while often necessary, can kill off the nonresistant infections and allow resistant ones to thrive. — Andrew Jacobs, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2019 Lastly, southeast Asian countries have a relatively low transmission rate, meaning resistant strains run up against less competition from more dominant nonresistant strains. — Washington Post, 30 July 2019 In areas where antibiotic use was restricted, infections with resistant strains largely disappeared, leaving only people infected with milder, and more easily treatable, nonresistant strains. — Nicholas Bakalar, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2017

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