How to Use incidence in a Sentence

incidence

noun

• And not all the data points to low incidence of school spread.
  — Moriah Balingit, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Dec. 2020
• And not all the data points to low incidence of school spread.
  — Washington Post, 30 Dec. 2020
• On the Russian side, the incidence of these diseases was low.
  — Kara Miller, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Dec. 2021
• This may have been the greatest incidence of the wrong thing being done for the right reason.
  — New York Times, 21 Feb. 2022
• But since the 1990s, the incidence of more intense storms has increased.
  — Saveur Editors, Saveur, 16 Apr. 2025
• But incidence of mild cases might not be the most useful thing to count.
  — Adam Rogers, Wired, 1 Oct. 2020
• The agency is still seeing a steady increase in the incidence of the variant, the spokesperson said.
  — al, 29 Dec. 2021
• The agency is still seeing a steady increase in the incidence of the variant, the spokesperson said.
  — Angelica Peebles, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Dec. 2021
• The agency is still seeing a steady increase in the incidence of the variant, the spokesperson said.
  — Time, 28 Dec. 2021
• Yet at the same time, incidence rates are on the rise, which the AACR authors say is due to no single reason.
  — Maggie McGrath, Forbes.com, 23 May 2025
• The highest incidence was among male patients between the ages of 16 and 29.
  — Robert Langreth, Fortune, 7 Oct. 2021
• The incidence of prostate cancer is higher there than anywhere else in the world.
  — Nicholas Triolo, Outside Online, 16 Mar. 2023
• Case and death data here are by date of report - not date of incidence.
  — Ramsey Archibald | [e-mail], al, 11 Sep. 2021
• Even more striking, the incidence of rectal cancer rose 3% per year in adults in this age group over the same time.
  — Lydia A. Flier, Gabriela Rico, STAT, 31 Aug. 2020
• Will there be an above-normal incidence of lightning and wind events that spark fires and drive their spread?
  — Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 27 Apr. 2021
• The authors note the incidence difference was small between the two groups.
  — Byalexa Mikhail, Fortune Well, 28 June 2023
• The incidence of quintuplets is rare, doctors said at the time.
  — Laura Barcella, Peoplemag, 13 Apr. 2023
• Is the future incidence of T2d a threat to bankrupt our health care system?
  — Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 7 Apr. 2022
• There's less incidence of people losing their sense of taste and smell.
  — NBC News, 21 Apr. 2022
• There’s less incidence of people losing their sense of taste and smell.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 9 May 2022
• Over the next decade, the incidence of thyroid cancer increased more than six-fold.
  — Claire Bugos, Verywell Health, 18 Aug. 2023
• Utah had the nation's best lung cancer rate, while Kentucky had the worst at almost 2.4 times the incidence rate of Utah.
  — Lauren De Young, The Arizona Republic, 26 Nov. 2024
• Banks’ decision to shorten the grace period comes as the incidence of check fraud grows in the U.S.
  — Alana Semuels, TIME, 13 June 2024
• Does this plant have the same incidence of spreading ticks and Lyme disease?
  — Melinda Myers, Journal Sentinel, 14 June 2024
• High nitrate content in beets may increase blood flow and lessen the incidence of ED.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 15 Jan. 2023
• The incidence of type 1 diabetes in Finland is the highest in the world and about six times that in Russian Karelia.
  — Stephani Sutherland, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2021
• In gay fathers, the incidence is even higher in the limited amount of studies that have been done, around 12%.
  — Maria Carter, Parents, 21 Sep. 2023
• This could of course all be co-incidence, but it’s a pattern that has been seen over multiple years.
  — Ewan Spence, Forbes, 21 Sep. 2021
• Studies show that the degree of exposure to plastics corresponds to the incidence of disease.
  — Annie Lowrey, The Atlantic, 7 July 2025
• The somewhat lower incidence of tick bites in Southern states may be related to how the tick populations behave, Eisen says.
  — Pien Huang, NPR, 23 June 2025