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How to use flu in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun

Flu means influenza. Example: “He missed work because he caught the flu.”

Examples of flu by meaning

nounInfluenza.

  • get over the flu
  • He missed work because he caught the flu.
  • Every winter, doctors warn about seasonal flu.

More sentences with flu

  • Some of the cast went down with flu, but the show's still on.From the entry on
  • There has been a rise in my fever. I think I've the flu.From the entry fever
  • I've been ill with the flu for the past few days.From the entry ill
  • They say this year's flu virus is a particularly virulent strain.From the entry strain
  • Last year's flu strain was so contagious that everybody in town got sick!From the entry contagious
  • Having the flu all week left me pretty well out of it.From the entry out of it
  • I’ll be sending a pinch hitter to do the presentation because I have the flu.From the entry pinch hitter
  • I washed repeatedly with a disinfectant soap but I still caught the flu.From the entry disinfectant
  • This whole fear over swine flu was unfounded; it was clearly an overreaction.From the entry overreaction
  • It is difficult to keep anything down when you have the flu.From the entry keep down
  • I have a bad case of the sweats. Do you think it's the flu?From the entry sweats
  • Many children at our school have fallen prey to the 'flu bug.From the entry fall prey
  • Everyone's down with the flu, and I'm in the office all by myself.From the entry down with
  • Everyone's gone down with the flu, and I'm here in the office all by myself.From the entry go down with
  • The flu shot didn't take (on me).From the entry take
  • Everyone seems to be catching the flu this week.From the entry catch
  • I've had an attack of the flu.From the entry attack
  • The flu is running through my daughter's kindergarten.From the entry run
  • She has the flu and feels rotten.From the entry rotten
  • She was sick all day with the flu.From the entry sick
  • I'm feeling dodgy today, probably got the flu.From the entry dodgy
  • More infectious diseases like the flu are usually less potent.From the entry infectious
  • The hospital ER was overflowing with flu cases.From the entry overflow
  • Getting a flu shot is a good safeguard against illness.From the entry safeguard
  • I caught that new strain of flu and for three days I was as sick as a dog.From the entry sick as a dog
  • I'm fighting off the 'flu at the moment.From the entry fight off
  • She took sick with the flu.From the entry take
  • He is down with the flu.From the entry down
  • I have got the dreaded flu.From the entry dreaded
  • Every spring, the passive aggressive archbishop suffered from a brief flu that dispensed him from needing to provide Easter service to the king.From the entry dispense
  • At the same time as an epidemic of the flu broke out among the people, an epizootic of the swine flu broke out among their pigs.From the entry epizootic
  • Highly pathogenic bird flu (HPAI) is of rising concern to epidemiologists.2025 January 27, Edward Helmore, “First outbreak of rare bird flu strain reported at California poultry farm”, in The Guardian, archived…. From the entry influenza
  • In medicine, weaker versions of a virus, like the flu, inoculate people against the real thing.2023 August 3, Derek Thompson, “How the Recession Doomers Got the U.S. Economy So Wrong”, in Jeffrey Goldberg, editor, The Atlantic…. From the entry vibecession
  • I will make only one comment: I have two Pfizers and a booster and a flu shot.2022 January 22, David Marchese, “Temple Grandin Wants Us to Think Differently About Kids Who Think Differently”, in The New York Times…. From the entry Pfizer
  • Add another monkeypox or bird flu outbreak, and we might even experience a “quadrupledemic.”2022 December 18, David Axe, “Overlapping Virus Outbreaks Threaten ‘Tripledemic’ Crisis”, in Daily Blast. From the entry quadrupledemic
  • Stomach flu can come on quickly, and no one wants to be around a sickee.2019, Hadley Hoover, Botched Boundaries (LP), page 138. From the entry sickee
  • The news media regale us with horror stories about dangerous flu viruses, multidrug-resistant superbugs, and EHEC-contaminated food.2015, Giulia Enders, translated by David Shaw, Gut, Scribe, published 2016, page 211. From the entry EHEC

Meaning of flu

  1. noun Influenza.
  2. noun Stomach flu.

Full definition of flu

Questions about flu in a sentence

How do you use flu in a sentence?
Flu is used as a noun. For example: “He missed work because he caught the flu.”
What is a short sentence with flu?
“get over the flu”
What does flu mean?
Flu means influenza.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: flu (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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