How to Use foot-and-mouth disease in a Sentence

foot-and-mouth disease

noun
  • Stem rust, rice blast, foot-and-mouth disease, avian flu, hog cholera.
    — Nicola Twille, Wired, 6 July 2021
  • Uh oh, foot-and-mouth disease might run through Rip’s herd.
    — William Earl, Variety, 22 May 2026
  • The statement went on to warn that foot-and-mouth disease is a concern with Argentine beef.
    — Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Now, in just episode four, their new operation has already lost its inventory to foot-and-mouth disease.
    — Noel Murray, Vulture, 29 May 2026
  • Popular hypotheses held that bats spread Ebola virus, for example, and gazelles foot-and-mouth disease.
    — New York Times, 12 Jan. 2021
  • Animals with foot-and-mouth disease typically exhibit symptoms such as fever and blisters, or sores in the mouth, teats and between the hooves.
    — Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 28 July 2022
  • After their herd was wiped out from a foot-and-mouth disease outbreak, they're left with no choice but to ally themselves with their rival ranch, 10-Petal.
    — Julia Moore, PEOPLE, 5 June 2026
  • Its animal vaccines have been used to protect billions of farm animals from foot-and-mouth disease and to chemically castrate pigs.
    — Scott Deveau, Bloomberg.com, 5 May 2020
  • For many, the very idea evokes memories of the catastrophic 2001 foot-and-mouth disease crisis, which led to the culling of millions of sheep.
    — Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2019
  • Producers fear that the export market would vanish overnight if diseases, including mad cow or foot-and-mouth disease, infected Australian cattle.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 25 July 2025
  • In her longest-in-British-history reign, nothing has kept the queen away from the five days of races — not pregnancy, a speech to Parliament or even an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease.
    — Pan Pylas, USA TODAY, 17 June 2020
  • Over the decades the O’odham placed some barbed wire along the border to keep livestock from straying into the neighboring country, limiting the spread of maladies such as foot-and-mouth disease and hindering cattle thieves.
    — Geraldo L. Cadava, The Atlantic, 20 June 2026
  • The Imperial College modeling team should have faced an audit of its models and practices after the foot-and-mouth disease debacle more than 20 years ago.
    — Steve H. Hanke, National Review, 30 Mar. 2022
  • Hungary detected its first foot-and-mouth disease outbreak in over 50 years on March 7, 2025, at a cattle farm near the Slovak border.
    — Holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 26 Oct. 2025
  • The bonanza ended when the US permanently halted hedgehog shipments from countries with foot-and-mouth disease, a list that included Nigeria.
    — Noelle Mateer, Wired, 12 Aug. 2021
  • The facility modified its priorities, focusing on foot-and-mouth disease and disbanding the ASF team.
    — Laura Reiley, Washington Post, 27 Nov. 2019
  • In 2001, when foot-and-mouth disease swept across Britain, causing millions of farm animals to be slaughtered, the Chinese food industry was widely, and wrongly, blamed.
    — Christina Boyle, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2021
  • In 1898, the same year as Beijerinck’s work was published, foot-and-mouth disease in cattle became the first animal illness linked to a filterable agent, or a microbe small enough to pass through a porcelain filter.
    — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Mar. 2020
  • The idea of animal analytics was hugely important within the agricultural industry at the time, because of recent outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease, highlighting the risks of not keeping records of animal movements.
    — Chris Stokel-Walker, Fortune, 26 June 2025
  • In episode 4 of Dutton Ranch, Beth (Kelly Reilly) and Rip (Cole Hauser) kill their entire herd after a foot-and-mouth disease outbreak.
    — Julia Moore, PEOPLE, 29 May 2026
  • But Dutton Ranch took it to another level in its fourth episode, when foot-and-mouth disease infected Rip (Cole Hauser) and Beth's (Kelly Reilly) entire herd, forcing them to kill ALL their cattle.
    — Samantha Highfill, Entertainment Weekly, 1 June 2026
  • Incredibly, the event has only been scuttled twice in 120 years — first in 1915, when foot-and-mouth disease raged in the livestock community, and then again in 2021, due to COVID-19 restrictions.
    — John Wenzel, Denver Post, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Now serving as 10 Petal's strategist, Beth accompanies Beulah to Dallas to secure a licensing deal with Frontier Hospitality Group — an opportunity Beth had originally envisioned for Dutton Ranch before foot-and-mouth disease wiped out their herd.
    — Samantha Stutsman, PEOPLE, 13 June 2026

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