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How to use polio in a sentence

12 example sentences · noun

Polio means a person who has poliomyelitis. Example: “Researchers think that polio is an eradicable disease.”

Examples of polio by meaning

nounA person who has poliomyelitis.

  • They don't need social service workers running back and forth every month or two to see if the polios are playing stickball in the street because they never will.1977, United States. Congress. House. Welfare Reform Subcommittee, Administration's Welfare Reform Proposal: Joint Hearings..., page 223
  • The “polios” (as they called themselves) in Warm Springs didn't deny the seriousness of their health issues or the impairments to their physiology.2008, Cynthia Comacchio, Janet Golden, George Weisz, Healing the World's Children, page 141

More sentences with polio

  • Researchers think that polio is an eradicable disease.From the entry eradicable
  • Plans for the resumption of her nursery school were put on hold, held hostage by the polio epidemic.2012, Andrew Clyde Little, Wheeler's Wake Volume II: A Biographical Novel, volume 2, page 189. From the entry hold hostage
  • Fifty years later, she even blamed her mother for overdeference to the doctors when she was ill with polio.2010, Linda Gordon, Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits, pages 17–18. From the entry overdeference
  • When she began to have trouble breathing, a sign of severe bulbar polio, she was taken by ambulance to another hospital.2009 January 27, Barron H. Lerner, “A Life Changed but Not Destroyed by Polio”, in New York Times. From the entry bulbar
  • RNA replaces DNA as the genetic material in many viruses (for example, tobacco mosaic, influenza, polio, certain RNA phages).1992, James D. Watson and others, Recombinant DNA, second edition, Scientific American Books, page 64. From the entry tobacco mosaic
  • His Wario, meanwhile, began spreading the rumour that the vaccine itself was dangerous, and that the virus that caused polio didn't really exist.2022 October 13, James Felton, “Duon H. Miller”, in Assholes: The Dead People You Should Be Mad At, London: Little, Brown Book Group, →ISBN. From the entry Wario
  • A hexavalent vaccine is given including the pertussis ACV combined with vaccines against diptheria, tetanus, polio, hepatitis B and Haemophilus influenzae type B.2015 July 17, “Genetic Variation of Bordetella pertussis in Austria”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI. From the entry diptheria
  • Jonas Salk, one of the developers of the polio vaccine, suggested that if a herd immunity level of 85% exists in a population, a polio epidemic will not occur.2010, Ray M. Merrill, “Practical Disease Concepts in Epidemiology”, in Introduction to Epidemiology, 5th edition, Sudbury, Mass.: Jones…. From the entry herd immunity
  • The polio vaccination program took a body blow last spring when the disease developed in children injected with vaccine from the Cutter Laboratories of Berkeley, Calif.1955 September 5, “Medicine: Cutter Verdict”, in Time, retrieved 07 Apr 2014. From the entry body blow
  • Medium height and a figure that was well-molded except for the dragging left leg that had been attacked by polio on just such a summer day three years ago.1950 July, Helen Gregutt, “Victory”, in Esther R. Bien, editor, The American Girl, New York, N.Y.: Girl Scouts of the U.S.A., →ISSN…. From the entry clam diggers

Meaning of polio

  1. noun A person who has poliomyelitis.

Full definition of polio

Questions about polio in a sentence

How do you use polio in a sentence?
Polio is used as a noun. For example: “Researchers think that polio is an eradicable disease.”
What is a short sentence with polio?
“Researchers think that polio is an eradicable disease.”
What does polio mean?
Polio means a person who has poliomyelitis.

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