Example sentences for: flu

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

  • In Hong Kong, the South China Morning Post gave blanket coverage to the flu virus with which Chinese chickens have infected several small children, killing two.

  • The same, however, cannot be said either of the recent and increasingly common af flu ence, barely, if at all, distinguishable from the similarly mis-stressed ef flu ents, or of defuse , when a failure to place nearly equal emphasis on both syllables leads to the word's being mistaken for the verb diffuse .

  • The LAT , USAT , the Wall Street Journal , and the NYT all run front-page items about Hong Kong's decision to combat that new strain of chicken flu by killing all 1 million of its chickens.

  • These drugs--such as a new flu treatment and a valuable treatment for hepatitis B--have been effective against many chronic viral diseases, historically among the hardest to cure.

  • Yet, with the exceptions of af flu ence, defuse, and, for Americans, the now-disapproved cervical, these examples of difference in stress can be said to be no more than small blips in the smooth flow of ideas.


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