How to Use smallpox in a Sentence

smallpox

noun

• And for more on smallpox pus, be sure to listen to this week’s episode!
  — Popsci Staff, Popular Science, 30 Sep. 2020
• The threat of the spread of smallpox, which white men carried with them, loomed as well.
  — Author: Meagan Flynn, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Mar. 2018
• Try a place founded when the threats were smallpox and yellow fever.
  — Zachary Lewis, cleveland, 25 Mar. 2021
• That vaccine is the smallpox vaccine, at the same dose adults get.
  — The Enquirer, 4 June 2023
• The only disease that has been wiped out in humans is smallpox.
  — Dallas News, 15 July 2021
• At the time, the threat of smallpox wasn’t something to be taken lightly.
  — Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 15 Feb. 2022
• Scientists don’t know where the virus in the smallpox vaccine came from.
  — The Atlantic Science Desk, The Atlantic, 30 Dec. 2022
• The world was riddled with smallpox, which killed one-third of all infected.
  — Hannah Seo, Discover Magazine, 31 Aug. 2022
• Mpox is a cousin of smallpox, with both viruses causing rashes on the skin and in the mouth.
  — Noor Adatia, Dallas News, 1 June 2023
• The state's first ice palace was built during a smallpox epidemic.
  — Matt McKinney, Star Tribune, 22 Jan. 2021
• In the days before vaccines, smallpox and polio and measles killed.
  — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 9 July 2025
• The mpox virus, is a milder version of its relation, smallpox.
  — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 23 Feb. 2023
• Lewis claimed that the odors also caused diseases like plague, smallpox and dysentery.
  — Karina Wilson, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Oct. 2020
• All eyes land on Cushing’s face, serene, tough, and pockmarked from a bout with smallpox.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 12 June 2021
• The virus is in the same family of viruses as that which causes smallpox.
  — Brook Endale, The Enquirer, 26 July 2022
• Of these, the most common are measles, mumps, rubella, polio, flu, smallpox and tetanus.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2021
• Cy Tolliver tries to deny it, but the truth is as plain as smallpox scars.
  — Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 18 Dec. 2021
• The virus originated in Africa and is the cousin of the smallpox virus.
  — Cnn Editorial Research, CNN, 5 Sep. 2022
• The disease was smallpox, a mortal threat to the human race for centuries.
  — John Gurda, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 31 May 2021
• Nurses attended to the injured as smallpox swept through the ranks.
  — Kinsey Gidick, Travel + Leisure, 8 June 2026
• The boy didn’t develop lesions, and the smallpox vaccine was born.
  — Laura Parker, National Geographic, 16 Sep. 2020
• Moctezuma’s brother, who took the throne next, died of smallpox, a disease brought by the Spaniards.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 17 Mar. 2022
• The variola virus that caused smallpox is thought to have been spread among humans for a few thousand years.
  — Lorenzino Estrada, AZCentral.com, 9 Dec. 2025
• Some of the images depict tragedy, like the year that the Lakota people faced smallpox.
  — April Wallace, arkansasonline.com, 12 Sep. 2024
• William Foege, a leader in the global fight to eliminate smallpox, has died.
  — Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 26 Jan. 2026
• The process had a 2% death rate, as compared to the minimal risk modern smallpox vaccine.
  — Scott Gleeson, USA TODAY, 2 Dec. 2021
• Mpox is closely related to smallpox, and infection results in a fever and painful rash that can last for weeks.
  — Patrick Jackson, The Conversation, 7 Jan. 2026
• She was already widowed when her son died of smallpox in 1879, at the age of twenty-four.
  — Anika Burgess, New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2026
• The shot was approved for use against smallpox and monkeypox in 2019.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 10 Aug. 2022
• In the 1800s, smallpox vaccine was shipped across the channel to France.
  — Albert Bourla, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2022