How to Use epidemic in a Sentence

epidemic

1 of 2 adjective

• The idea came at a time of near epidemic levels of gun violence.
  — Megan Cassidy, SFChronicle.com, 19 Sep. 2019
• The anti-epidemic agency didn't respond to questions sent to its office by fax.
  — Arkansas Online, 2 Dec. 2022
• The dream of running off to live the good life in a postcard perfect town in the mountains or by the sea often reaches epidemic proportions near the end of summer.
  — John Rasmus, National Geographic, September 2004
• Power abuses are epidemic in an industry where employment is contingent and hard to obtain and much of the workforce is in the first bloom of youth.
  — Vogue, 4 Nov. 2021
• But carjackings are up, and thefts from vehicles are epidemic.
  — Courtland Milloy, Washington Post, 19 July 2022
• Officials also say the number of evictions is soaring to an epidemic level as rents continue to rise.
  — Chabeli Herrera, orlandosentinel.com, 10 Dec. 2019
• Severe anti-epidemic measures imposed in response to the outbreak have been lifted, the agency said.
  — Stella Kim, NBC News, 11 Aug. 2022
• Calls to Beihai’s anti-epidemic task force and tourism agencies went unanswered.
  — Linda Lew, Bloomberg.com, 22 July 2022
• When a disease reaches epidemic levels, the first obligation for leaders in any country is to protect their own people.
  — Andrew Natsios, The Conversation, 11 Feb. 2020
• The result was that thousands of unknowing carriers spread the viral plague while the government covered up its epidemic proportions.
  — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 20 Feb. 2020
• Taiwan formed an epidemic response command center and in late January; that same week, the island confirmed its first case.
  — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 4 Mar. 2020
• Global stock markets have also sunk as investors face up to the reality of a return to pre-epidemic monetary policy.
  — Billy Bambrough, Forbes, 29 Jan. 2022
• Indeed, my own brand of germaphobia has kept pace with the decades and, during periodic epidemic panics,...
  — Grace Paine Terzian, WSJ, 9 Mar. 2020
• Telangana has not enacted strict anti-epidemic measures, only a curfew at night.
  — CNN, 28 Apr. 2021
• There is no question that communication about public business though private accounts and devices is at an epidemic level.
  — Thomas Peele, The Mercury News, 25 Mar. 2017
• But the country has seemingly been spared from a major wave of infections, thanks in part to stringent anti-epidemic measures, controls on the movement of people and the border lockdown.
  — Joshua Berlinger, CNN, 20 Jan. 2021
• The economic fallout isn’t something epidemic models address, Longini says—but that may have to change.
  — Martin Enserink, Science | AAAS, 25 Mar. 2020
• Yet there seem to be some crucial differences between the virus that caused an epidemic 17 years ago and the one causing a global pandemic today.
  — TheWeek, 28 Mar. 2020
• Across the country, cities are imposing anti-epidemic restrictions, and households are hoarding supplies, fearing they will be locked down next.
  — Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 18 Apr. 2022
• Cunningham worked as an epidemic intelligence officer and has been deployed for a number public health emergencies.
  — Paula Rogo, Essence.com, 26 Feb. 2018
• But now, the maximum anti-epidemic measures would be relaxed and returned to normal levels, Mr. Kim said.
  — Dasl Yoon, WSJ, 11 Aug. 2022
• Some medical institutions were not linked to an epidemic information network and failed to report data in time, Xinhua said.
  — NBC News, 17 Apr. 2020
• The prior pessimism of most epidemic models will either be confirmed or refuted, depending on the percentages of Americans who have already weathered the virus.
  — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 16 Apr. 2020
• Underage vaping has reached what health officials call epidemic levels.
  — NBC News, 12 Dec. 2019
• The epidemic year was an outlier on every measure, with the warmest winter, the warmest spring and the heaviest early rainfall in 10 years.
  — Maryn McKenna, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2017
• The razing has reached truly epidemic proportions in the Park Cities, where there is zero landmark protection for even the most significant works of architecture.
  — Dallas News, 12 Jan. 2022
• Collier said that overall, activity on Dauphin Island had rebounded to very near pre-epidemic levels.
  — al, 23 June 2020
• While the officials agreed to ease some anti-epidemic measures, including revoking a weekend curfew and opening government offices, schools will remain shut.
  — Rhea Mogul and Vedika Sud, CNN, 27 Jan. 2022
• And many more children died in the early years of life, some from epidemic infectious diseases such as smallpox and diphtheria, or from complications that followed routine infections such as pneumonia after measles.
  — Perri Klass, Harper's Magazine, 25 May 2021
• This week, a video widely shared online appeared to show an anti-epidemic worker in Shanghai beating a corgi to death on the street after its Covid-positive owner had been taken away.
  — NBC News, 8 Apr. 2022

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epidemic

2 of 2 noun

• Putin this week said the country had passed the peak of the epidemic.
  — Henry Meyer, Bloomberg.com, 5 June 2020
• But the face—and race—of the opioid epidemic has changed in the past decade.
  — Melba Newsome, Scientific American, 17 Nov. 2022
• There was a lot of meth use and the start of an opioid epidemic.
  — J.j. Anselmi, The New Republic, 21 Dec. 2020
• The offensive woes have been an epidemic since the turn of the new year.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 26 Jan. 2018
• The opioid epidemic is the major cause of the surge, the agency says.
  — Mark Curnutte, Cincinnati.com, 27 June 2018
• Until now the world has turned a blind eye to this epidemic.
  — Meredith Wadman, Science | AAAS, 17 July 2019
• The epidemic was on the wane, and the trial of Galileo was about to begin.
  — Hannah Marcus, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2020
• The increase of the epidemic has slowed down their plotlines as well.
  — Bea Lewis, sun-sentinel.com, 24 Sep. 2021
• The workplace has not been spared in this epidemic, of course.
  — Lila MacLellan, Quartz at Work, 7 Feb. 2020
• Because quarantine is a way to cut off the spread of the epidemic.
  — Fox News, 11 Nov. 2022
• The shape on the epidemic curve is a classic spike — sharply up, then sharply down.
  — Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Aug. 2022
• This time at least the epidemic—and the need for a vaccine—is real.
  — Marc Siegel, WSJ, 7 Sep. 2020
• If this epidemic is contained, the world should learn the lesson.
  — The Economist, 24 May 2018
• One of the papers claimed there was an epidemic of dog rape at dog parks and that men should be leashed like dogs.
  — oregonlive, 13 Sep. 2021
• The common thread for these plans from the White House is the epidemic, seems to me.
  — Larry Light, Forbes, 27 May 2021
• One is on the front lines helping people caught up in the heroin epidemic.
  — Sheila Vilvens, Cincinnati.com, 10 Sep. 2017
• The only way to explain this cascade of pills is an epidemic of fraud.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 26 Oct. 2017
• Some of my own family members and friends in the state have been hit by this epidemic.
  — Clay Marsh, STAT, 12 July 2018
• After the epidemic was over, the spittoons didn’t come back.
  — The New Republic, 16 Dec. 2020
• Why, in the heart of the epidemic, did things seem to be so disorganized?
  — Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2021
• This bill will not end the epidemic of gun violence overnight.
  — Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 13 June 2022
• Decades of decline followed, in which a crack epidemic caused the murder rate to spike.
  — The Economist, 21 June 2018
• It was published just as the blindness epidemic was starting to peak.
  — Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 12 Jan. 2023
• The important part about dealing with epidemics is to deal with them early.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 12 Mar. 2017
• Can this opioid epidemic be stopped, and solved, by one man?
  — Jack Fowler, National Review, 24 June 2021
• Now we were known as ground zero of a deadly epidemic poised to sweep the continent.
  — James Ross Gardner, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2020
• Ohio and Kentucky have been hard hit by the opioid epidemic.
  — Alexander Coolidge, The Enquirer, 8 Sep. 2023
• And as if that weren’t enough the aids epidemic was at its height when Frances met Frank.
  — Mary Costello, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2023
• The opioid epidemic is the public health crisis of our time. . .
  — Bill Myers, Chicago Reader, 16 May 2018
• These brutal losses for the Irish are part of a three-decade epidemic.
  — Terence Moore, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2022

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024