Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

Mold also uses these same lipid bubbles to deliver small, damaging RNAs into the plants they are infecting to suppress host immunity, an ability developed as part of a co-evolutionary arms race.

From Science Daily • Dec. 21, 2023

Hospitals are reporting staffing shortages related to high rates of coronavirus transmission, which are infecting healthcare workers, Ferrer said.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 30, 2022

“Really, humans are infecting the animals, and now animals are sick and some of them are dying,” Dr. Han said.

From New York Times • Feb. 22, 2022

There is not yet any evidence that deer are infecting people, and for the foreseeable future, experts agreed, humans are far more likely to catch the virus from one another than from anything with hooves.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 7, 2022

It is that we are infecting the Old World with what seems to be thought the entirely new disease of Democracy.

From Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American by Eliot, Charles William