How to Use pox in a Sentence

pox

noun

• Oh no, these elves have come down with a case of the Christmas pox!
  — Katie Bowlby, Country Living, 11 Nov. 2022
• In the photograph, one face is clear, while the other is riddled with pox.
  — Brit Trogen, The Atlantic, 14 Jan. 2021
• The Elf on the Shelf has come down with a good case of Christmas pox.
  — Corinne Sullivan, Good Housekeeping, 11 Nov. 2022
• After five to seven days, all the pox will be dry scabs, which means the child is no longer contagious.
  — Parents Editors, Parents, 3 Sep. 2023
• Macmillan also thinks that grays get a bad rap as carriers of squirrel pox.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 16 Apr. 2018
• Beginning to think that’s going to be a pox on the talented lad.
  — Peter King, SI.com, 25 Sep. 2017
• The virus also can be spread through bedding or towels that touched an infectious skin lesion or pox.
  — Grace Tooheystaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2022
• Biological weapons such as small pox and anthrax may also play a role.
  — chicagotribune.com, 8 Sep. 2017
• After the itchy blisters of chicken pox disappear, the virus goes dormant in nerve cells.
  — Linda Loyd, Philly.com, 21 June 2017
• The fact is, no child can show up at school this fall without showing their immunizations, small pox and -- and measles, et cetera.
  — ABC News, 25 July 2021
• Well, is that not the flamenco dress calling the chicken-pox patient spotted?
  — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 15 Aug. 2025
• The Obama-era vegetable push was a pox on the nation; now veggies are back in all their green glory.
  — Pat Beall, Sun Sentinel, 12 Aug. 2025
• Their columns keep returning to a gloomy pox-on-both-your-houses conclusion.
  — Jeet Heer, New Republic, 15 Feb. 2018
• Slow play has been a pox on the pro game since long before Mickelson, 49, arrived on the scene.
  — Karen Crouse, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2019
• There were two outbreaks of a pox-like disease in colonies of monkeys kept for research, which is where the disease's name derives.
  — Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 9 May 2022
• Vaccinia is a pox family virus related to smallpox that cannot cause smallpox and leads to milder disease.
  — Tom Inglesby, STAT, 12 Aug. 2022
• Other vaccine-preventable diseases like whooping cough and chicken pox will also surge.
  — Joel Mathis, TheWeek, 28 Jan. 2026
• Monkeypox is a pox virus and is related to the variola virus, which caused smallpox.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 24 May 2022
• Shingles, or herpes zoster, is an infection caused by the varicella zoster virus — the same virus that causes chicken pox.
  — Emily Kay Votruba, EverydayHealth.com, 22 Jan. 2026
• Vargas missed a month this season with a pair of blisters and a nasty bout of chicken pox, which affected his consistency.
  — Paul Johnson, Naperville Sun, 27 July 2017
• Some had more serious disease when the poxes were located in sensitive areas, such as the eye.
  — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 23 Feb. 2023
• Like other pox diseases, the telltale signs of monkeypox are painful lesions that can develop throughout the body.
  — Hyacinth Empinado, STAT, 24 May 2022
• Carter’s immune system was so compromised during treatment that a disease like chicken pox, measles or even the flu could have been fatal.
  — Dottie Lamm, The Denver Post, 11 Mar. 2017
• As is a local tradition, attendees will then cast a pox on King George after the reading.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 2 July 2021
• Monkeypox is a disease caused by an infection with a pox virus that belongs to the same family of viruses that cause smallpox.
  — Annie Berman, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Aug. 2022
• Spanish invaders are thought to have unleashed a throng of pathogens and plagues from the Old World, including small pox and typhoid.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 16 Jan. 2018
• The world’s most successful vaccinations against measles, polio, tetanus and small pox generally work in the same way.
  — Ashley Halsey Iii, Washington Post, 27 Jan. 2018
• Plus, there is a risk of long-term complications if the pox lesions develop in areas around the eye or GI tract.
  — Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN, 31 July 2022
• As for Africa, some thinkers on the continent argue that distracted big powers will leave it alone; a pox on all their houses, in other words.
  — Comfort Ero, Time, 9 Jan. 2026
• McMaster holds up this decision as a virtue, prefacing his book with a brushback statement that amounts to a pox on both houses.
  — Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2020