How to Use anthrax in a Sentence

anthrax

noun

• For two years, Gruinard and its flocks of sheep were bombed with anthrax.
  — Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 1 Apr. 2017
• Drought, floods and winds can spread anthrax spores to grazing livestock.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 29 Sep. 2022
• Clinics have had acid poured through their mail slots and received anthrax through the mail.
  — Rebecca Grant, Cosmopolitan, 26 June 2017
• Farther down were some names from pandemics past—cholera, anthrax.
  — Nicola Twille, Wired, 6 July 2021
• Or getting sent anthrax and having some of it fall on his baby.
  — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 16 Oct. 2023
• That’s not to say that North Korea wouldn’t use anthrax in a war.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 20 Dec. 2017
• At least five envelopes full of anthrax spores were mailed to politicians and the media.
  — Alicia Ault, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 June 2020
• In the Namib Desert, three cheetahs who ate the same zebra died of anthrax.
  — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 23 Nov. 2021
• Which brings us to the scene in the barn where Peter infects Phil with the anthrax.
  — Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2021
• Yes, there were those scares about anthrax and the lingering worry that any public space could be hit next.
  — Bonnie Kristian, The Week, 10 Mar. 2022
• The current list includes things like anthrax and Ebola virus.
  — Ars Technica, 19 Mar. 2025
• Inhalation anthrax is the most deadly type of anthrax.
  — Hannah Kinzer, The Conversation, 25 Mar. 2026
• The anthrax attacks were a harbinger of public health challenges to come.
  — Maryn McKenna, Wired, 4 Oct. 2021
• The hunt for the anthrax killer in the early 2000s is the subject of a new podcast.
  — Peter White, Deadline, 25 Mar. 2025
• But anthrax, which is not a virus, isn’t unique to Siberia and is unlikely to cause widespread pandemics.
  — Michael Birnbaum and Ellen Francis, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Dec. 2022
• But in the autumn of 2001, the response to anthrax swamped public health.
  — Maryn McKenna, Wired, 4 Oct. 2021
• After anthrax spores enter the animal’s body, immune cells known as macrophages pick up these spores for removal.
  — Hannah Kinzer, The Conversation, 25 Mar. 2026
• Like the destruction of the World Trade Center, the anthrax scare was right in my face.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 18 Mar. 2020
• The bacteria that cause anthrax are called Bacillus anthracis.
  — Hannah Kinzer, The Conversation, 25 Mar. 2026
• That’s typical of many of the vaccines and drugs in the national stockpile that treat rare or deadly pathogens like anthrax or the plague.
  — Matthew Perrone, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Aug. 2022
• That's typical of many of the vaccines and drugs in the national stockpile that treat rare or deadly pathogens like anthrax or the plague.
  — Matthew Perrone, ajc, 9 Aug. 2022
• It was considered but not used during the anthrax attacks in 2001.
  — The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 3 July 2017
• Sciberras reveals that at one point, the camera then slowly panned across Peter’s desk over his books and stopped on a page about anthrax.
  — Carolyn Giardina, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Mar. 2022
• During the morning of the memorial service, New York was awash in the fresh fear of an anthrax scare.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2020
• The first vaccines using this approach date to the 1870s, against anthrax and rabies.
  — Brenda Goodman, CNN, 3 Apr. 2023
• The Russians sent in a team and the team was horrified to discover that anthrax spores that had been dormant had come back to life.
  — Jeff Goodell, Rolling Stone, 26 May 2021
• An outbreak of anthrax in Siberia five years ago is believed to be the result of the pathogen preserved in reindeer carcasses.
  — David Bressan, Forbes, 28 June 2022
• The top court also closed for a day following an anthrax scare in October of 2001.
  — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 16 Mar. 2020
• Humans seeding anthrax People can get caught in the life cycle of Bacillus anthracis.
  — Hannah Kinzer, The Conversation, 25 Mar. 2026
• The 9/11 attacks and the anthrax scare that followed underscored the need for sweeping new actions to keep the country safe.
  — Patricia Callahan, ProPublica, 30 Mar. 2020