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Example sentences for: flu

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

Over the weekend we've seen him on both Saturday Night Live and the Late Show With David Letterman . He stood up Howard Stern last night, which probably garnered him more mileage that actually being on the show when Howard waxed repeatedly wrathful, as, although David pleaded flu, callers reported him carousing in the Mercer Kitchen until 4 a.m.
Flu season arrived earlier than in previous years, and the number and severity of infections are higher than average.
At the other extreme, an instance may be as large as an event, such as the Cuban missile crisis (Allison, 1971) and the swine flu vaccine (Neustadt and Fineberg, 1978), which have been the subjects of two well-known case studies, or the Challenger tragedy.
USA Today leads with the Clinton administration's proposal for establishing a nationwide computer system for rapidly tracking the course of infectious diseases like the flu and hepatitis C. The New York Times lead also connects medicine and cyberspace with a report that the rise of Americans' online pharmaceutical purchases via foreign-based Web sites has led to record levels of illegal drug imports, judging from the latest figures on Customs Service seizures of imported drugs in 1999, which ran about 4.5 times higher than 1998.
Just named one of the New York Times ' "Notable Books" of 1999, this chronicle of the struggle to understand the flu virus that killed about 700,000 Americans wins high marks for the way it blends rigorous science and a gripping detective story.