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How to use vaccinate in a sentence

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Vaccinate means to treat (a person or an animal) with a vaccine to produce immunity against a disease. Example: “I'll come and see you again once I'm fully vaccinated.”

Examples of vaccinate by meaning

verbTo treat (a person or an animal) with a vaccine to produce immunity against a disease.

  • You must have been vaccinated with a phonograph needle!1933, Groucho Marx, Duck Soup (movie)
  • The county Health Department will provide free tetanus shots from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. today in Turtle Creek for flood victims and cleanup workers who haven't been vaccinated against the disease in the past 10 years.1997 July 8, “Tetanus shots for flood workers”, in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, page D.3
  • Within weeks, Britain had vaccinated more people than France, Germany, Italy and Spain combined, a stunning achievement.2021 February 24, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Vaccines and railways”, in RAIL, number 925, page 3

More sentences with vaccinate

  • I'll come and see you again once I'm fully vaccinated.From the entry vaccinated
  • Shots also are advised for older children if parents want their kids vaccinated, the AAP said.2025 August 19, Mike Stobbe, “US pediatricians’ new COVID-19 shot recommendations differ from CDC advice”, in AP News, archived from the…. From the entry AAP
  • He also said that he would not use his platform to publicly encourage others to be vaccinated.2021 September 28, Scott Cacciola, “LeBron James said he was vaccinated, after previously evading the question.”, in The New York Times…. From the entry platform
  • “We had vaccinated everybody who wanted to be vaccinated and there was nobody left.”2021 October 11, Jan Hoffman, quoting Steven Furr, “Boosters Are Complicating Efforts to Persuade the Unvaccinated to Get Shots”, in The…. From the entry hit a wall
  • Some cities in other provinces are also vaccinating children between three and 11.2021 October 26, Roxanne Liu, Ryan Woo, “China's Zhejiang province seeks to vaccinate young kids by December”, in Christian Schmollinger…. From the entry Wuzhishan
  • Vaxications refer to pent-up demand for travel from those who are vaccinated.2021 April 21, “What are 'vaxications' and how do they affect vacation rentals?”, in USA Today, archived from the original on 20 Apr 2024. From the entry vaxication
  • Others protest and want us to un-invite them (unless they get vaccinated soon).2021 November 17, Eleanor Gordon-Smith, quoting a reader, “We are hosting Christmas, but two family members refuse to be Covid vaccinated.…. From the entry Xmas Day
  • Yeah in America they made me vaccinate my child before the school admission.2020 March 26, Michael Di Iorio, “M.I.A comes out as anti-vaccine, says she’d rather choose death”, in Rolling Stone, Australia. From the entry vaxin
  • Within a few years we had practically vaccinated the vaccinable population.1982, China Now, page 11. From the entry vaccinable
  • "When I was young," I said, "I was vaccinated with religion, but the vaccination didn't take."1967, Richard Martin Stern, The Kessler Legacy, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 103. From the entry take
  • We’re doing that for vaccination.’ So if you take the gestalt of it, the gestalt was, ‘Let’s get vaccinated!’”2025 March 6, Sheryl Gay Stolberg, quoting Bill Cassidy, “A Skeptical G.O.P. Senator Makes His Peace With Kennedy”, in The New York Times…. From the entry gestalt
  • Poultry within a 3.8-mile radius were being vaccinated.2004 July 7, “FINDINGS”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 Jun 2024, Politics. From the entry Chaohu
  • What I would prefer over hazard pay would be for every one of our patients to get vaccinated and boostered, as we request constantly.2022 January 11, Jessica Jacob, “Health Workers, ‘Risking Their Own Lives to Save Ours’”, in The New York Times. From the entry booster
  • If there was to be a priority, it should go to the vaccinated residents of care homes in recognition of the extraordinary burdens they face.2021 February 7, Kate Connolly, “Freedom and fairness: Covid vaccine passport plans cause global unease; Schemes are in development from…. From the entry elbow mentality
  • In the Shijingshan neighborhood, vaccinated residents were given free entry into all parks — a measure that some Internet users called “a little stingy.”2021 April 5, Lily Kuo, Lyric Li, “China’s covid vaccine drive is lagging. Free food could help turn things around.”, in The Washington…. From the entry Shijingshan
  • And indeed, many vaccinated people do experience a “reaction,” with slight fever, lassitude, and acheyness—the symptoms of a very low-grade viral infection.1982, Frank Freudberg, “A Second Look at the Immune System”, in Herpes: A Complete Guide to Relief & Reassurance, Philadelphia, Pa.…. From the entry acheyness
  • In Pinggu, a suburb of Beijing, residents were told that they would receive 50-yuan ($7.60) prizes in cash or merchandise once they had been fully vaccinated.2021 April 5, Lily Kuo, Lyric Li, “China’s covid vaccine drive is lagging. Free food could help turn things around.”, in The Washington…. From the entry yuan
  • In Guangxi, two cities -- Guiping and Beiliu -- both said students would not be allowed to go to school unless both of their parents were fully vaccinated.2021 July 15, Ben Westcott, “Unvaccinated people in parts of China to be denied access to hospitals, parks and schools”, in CNN, archived…. From the entry Guiping
  • Some newly vaccinated people will be ready to get on a plane and travel far from home -- or at least as far as destination entry requirements allow.2021 March 19, Andrea M. Rotondo, “Did you just get vaccinated? Here are 5 tips to plan your first ‘vaxication’”, in The Points Guy…. From the entry vaxication
  • Doctors have called for boys to be vaccinated against HPV just like teenage girls to stop the spread of the disease" that is spread during Lewinskys.2011 February 21, The Rush Limbaugh Show (Radio), Rush Limbaugh (actor). From the entry Lewinsky
  • After reading all the posts on vaccinations, I was discussing it with a friend of mine who as far as I knew did not have his daughter vaccinated.1998 January 29, maria maj, “a diff. vaccination question”, in misc.kids.breastfeeding (Usenet), retrieved 14 May 2022. From the entry homiopathic
  • But when the president tells me to vaccinate every man, woman, and child against swine flu, I will refuse because it is dangerous and a nonaccomplishable goal.1976, The Bureaucrat - Volumes 5-6, page 70. From the entry nonaccomplishable
  • Rates within the vaccinated population can be compared to rates in a control group in prelicensure studies or to rates of events outside the specified time window in postlicensure evaluations.1995, Jim C. Williams, Combined Vaccines and Simultaneous Administration: Current Issues and Perspectives. From the entry postlicensure

Meaning of vaccinate

  1. verb To treat (a person or an animal) with a vaccine to produce immunity against a disease.

Full definition of vaccinate

Questions about vaccinate in a sentence

How do you use vaccinate in a sentence?
Vaccinate is used as a verb. For example: “I'll come and see you again once I'm fully vaccinated.”
What is a short sentence with vaccinate?
“Poultry within a 3.8-mile radius were being vaccinated.”
What does vaccinate mean?
Vaccinate means to treat (a person or an animal) with a vaccine to produce immunity against a disease.

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