How to Use anthrax in a Sentence

anthrax

noun
  • For two years, Gruinard and its flocks of sheep were bombed with anthrax.
    — Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 1 Apr. 2017
  • Drought, floods and winds can spread anthrax spores to grazing livestock.
    — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Clinics have had acid poured through their mail slots and received anthrax through the mail.
    — Rebecca Grant, Cosmopolitan, 26 June 2017
  • Farther down were some names from pandemics past—cholera, anthrax.
    — Nicola Twille, Wired, 6 July 2021
  • Or getting sent anthrax and having some of it fall on his baby.
    — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 16 Oct. 2023
  • That’s not to say that North Korea wouldn’t use anthrax in a war.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 20 Dec. 2017
  • At least five envelopes full of anthrax spores were mailed to politicians and the media.
    — Alicia Ault, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 June 2020
  • In the Namib Desert, three cheetahs who ate the same zebra died of anthrax.
    — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 23 Nov. 2021
  • Which brings us to the scene in the barn where Peter infects Phil with the anthrax.
    — Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2021
  • Yes, there were those scares about anthrax and the lingering worry that any public space could be hit next.
    — Bonnie Kristian, The Week, 10 Mar. 2022
  • The current list includes things like anthrax and Ebola virus.
    — Ars Technica, 19 Mar. 2025
  • Inhalation anthrax is the most deadly type of anthrax.
    — Hannah Kinzer, The Conversation, 25 Mar. 2026
  • The anthrax attacks were a harbinger of public health challenges to come.
    — Maryn McKenna, Wired, 4 Oct. 2021
  • The hunt for the anthrax killer in the early 2000s is the subject of a new podcast.
    — Peter White, Deadline, 25 Mar. 2025
  • But anthrax, which is not a virus, isn’t unique to Siberia and is unlikely to cause widespread pandemics.
    — Michael Birnbaum and Ellen Francis, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Dec. 2022
  • But in the autumn of 2001, the response to anthrax swamped public health.
    — Maryn McKenna, Wired, 4 Oct. 2021
  • These spores are also packed with toxins that cause anthrax in humans and other animal species.
    — Rj MacKenzie, Popular Science, 5 Aug. 2026
  • Cutaneous anthrax, which enters the body through cuts or other breaks in the skin, is the least deadly form of the disease.
    — Rj MacKenzie, Popular Science, 5 Aug. 2026
  • After anthrax spores enter the animal’s body, immune cells known as macrophages pick up these spores for removal.
    — Hannah Kinzer, The Conversation, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Like the destruction of the World Trade Center, the anthrax scare was right in my face.
    — Kyle Smith, National Review, 18 Mar. 2020
  • The bacteria that cause anthrax are called Bacillus anthracis.
    — Hannah Kinzer, The Conversation, 25 Mar. 2026
  • That's typical of many of the vaccines and drugs in the national stockpile that treat rare or deadly pathogens like anthrax or the plague.
    — Matthew Perrone, ajc, 9 Aug. 2022
  • That’s typical of many of the vaccines and drugs in the national stockpile that treat rare or deadly pathogens like anthrax or the plague.
    — Matthew Perrone, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Aug. 2022
  • It was considered but not used during the anthrax attacks in 2001.
    — The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 3 July 2017
  • Sciberras reveals that at one point, the camera then slowly panned across Peter’s desk over his books and stopped on a page about anthrax.
    — Carolyn Giardina, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Mar. 2022
  • This approach isn’t a specialized technique for anthrax spores, says Ehling-Schulz.
    — Rj MacKenzie, Popular Science, 5 Aug. 2026
  • During the morning of the memorial service, New York was awash in the fresh fear of an anthrax scare.
    — Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2020
  • The first vaccines using this approach date to the 1870s, against anthrax and rabies.
    — Brenda Goodman, CNN, 3 Apr. 2023
  • Her team has dug up living anthrax samples that may have been dormant for 80 years in previous research.
    — Rj MacKenzie, Popular Science, 5 Aug. 2026
  • The Russians sent in a team and the team was horrified to discover that anthrax spores that had been dormant had come back to life.
    — Jeff Goodell, Rolling Stone, 26 May 2021

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