How to Use flu in a Sentence

flu

noun

• He came down with a bad bout of the flu.
• The first is about three ways to get rid of the flu fast.
  — Kenda Laney, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2025
• That was still much higher than the flu’s death rate of 3.7%.
  — Jason Gale, Fortune Well, 6 Apr. 2023
• The cost of a dozen — though volatile thanks to avian flu — has doubled to more than $3.
  — Rob Wile, NBC News, 14 Aug. 2024
• So far, the public health risk of avian flu, or H5N1, is low.
  — Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News, 19 June 2024
• As with the adult vaccine, the kid-sized dose seems to be safe to get the same day as a flu shot.
  — Caroline Catherman, orlandosentinel.com, 4 Nov. 2021
• There have been five flu deaths thus far this season in the state.
  — Shari Rudavsky, The Indianapolis Star, 16 Dec. 2024
• The Louisville football has been dealing with the flu for about a week now.
  — Cameron Teague Robinson, The Courier-Journal, 22 Nov. 2021
• Wild birds, which were the source of the avian flu, are migrating north again.
  — Maria Halkias, Dallas News, 7 Apr. 2023
• There wasn’t a lot of great art produced about the Spanish flu of 1918.
  — Susan Morrison, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2022
• Egg prices, which have been volatile after a bout of avian flu, fell 7.3%.
  — Christopher Rugaber, Fortune, 15 May 2024
• The flu shot is effective for about three to six months.
  — Maggie O'Neill, Health, 13 Feb. 2023
• Over the past decade, the death rate for flu was about 5% to 13% of those hospitalized.
  — CBS News, 2 July 2022
• But before that … This week’s must-reads: What is ‘Teflon flu’?
  — Tara Parker-Pope, Washington Post, 18 July 2024
• Egg prices have soared as a result of a deadly avian flu.
  — Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 20 Feb. 2025
• So far, uptake has been low compared with the flu shot.
  — Sabrina Malhi The Washington Post, arkansasonline.com, 30 Nov. 2024
• This year, the entire team caught the flu at an event in Puerto Rico.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 May 2025
• Pre-pandemic, fall was just a time for flu shots, if that.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 30 Aug. 2023
• In some years, the burden of RSV disease comes close to the burden of flu in the elderly.
  — Brady Knox, Washington Examiner, 3 May 2023
• And that confusion may ramp up over the next few months with the arrival of the cold and flu season.
  — Erin Allday, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Nov. 2021
• Two flu viruses are known to spread among dogs around the world: one that jumped from horses and one from birds.
  — Ida Emilie Steinmark, Scientific American, 17 Mar. 2023
• Here are a few of my top takeaways about how to use food to stay healthy this cold and flu season.
  — Dana McMahan, The Courier-Journal, 12 Oct. 2022
• The long history of bird flu Bird flu is thought to have been around for hundreds of years.
  — Karen Kucher, Mercury News, 24 Mar. 2025
• In many countries, last year’s flu season was the least harmful in more than a decade.
  — Fortune, 6 Jan. 2022
• Since then, the flu has spread in bird populations in at least 14 states.
  — Amy Schwabe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 22 Mar. 2022
• This goes for the common cold, the flu and viruses that could be life-threatening.
  — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 31 Oct. 2022
• But who could obtain such a note within hours of waking up with the flu or a back spasm?
  — E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 29 Apr. 2025
• In the first week of this year, 13 children died of flu, bringing this season's total to 40.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 12 Jan. 2024
• Symptoms resemble the flu and can take up to two weeks to appear after exposure.
  — Chris Sims, Louisville Courier Journal, 5 Aug. 2025
• Simple measures like handwashing and avoiding sick individuals are helpful, but not enough to stop the spread of flu.
  — Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025