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Example sentences for: epidemic

How can you use “epidemic” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

First reported last fall, the epidemic has devastated the entire collection.
In recent decades an ilk epidemic has afflicted journalists and broadcasters and ordinary people who like to fancy-up their language a bit.
Critics heap praise on O'Nan's latest, the gruesome tale of a man who returns to Wisconsin after the Civil War to find his hometown engulfed by a diphtheria epidemic and hemmed in at the edges by wildfires.
The conclusion to be drawn from my nine years of reporting on the AIDS epidemic for the New York Native is a somber one: Patients, activists, and uncritical journalists have been led down a tragic primrose path.
This failing appears to be epidemic throughout the industry: I recently spoke with an executive of Okidata, a manufacturer of a very good computer (laser) printer, who told me that his technical staff answers 60,000 telephone queries a month.