How to Use contagion in a Sentence

contagion

noun
  • People have been warned to keep out of the area to avoid contagion.
  • The Olympics are a contagion-zone in the best of times.
    — Ann Killion, SFChronicle.com, 20 Mar. 2020
  • The best way to avoid contagion is to get tested and get the vaccine.
    — Devika Rao, The Week, 13 Aug. 2023
  • The contagion spread around the Pacific and then the globe.
    — Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 21 Apr. 2020
  • The more people who wear masks, the more the risk of contagion is reduced.
    — Anne Saker, The Enquirer, 4 Sep. 2020
  • The contagion of white supremacy has been here a long time.
    — Michael Bradley, National Geographic, 19 Mar. 2019
  • The government and the press have focused on the cost of not doing enough to stop the contagion.
    — Krista Kafer, The Denver Post, 2 Apr. 2020
  • Dropping out of the red to the orange zone does not mean the danger of contagion has passed.
    — Anne Saker, The Enquirer, 12 Aug. 2020
  • Here and here and here are some examples of the contagion.
    — Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 16 Dec. 2022
  • The country may now have fewer tools to fight the next contagion.
    — Joel Achenbach, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Mar. 2023
  • Sounds a lot like the FTX contagion that romped through the financial world.
    — Gregg Opelka, WSJ, 14 Dec. 2022
  • From Portugal to Spain to Greece, the flames have spread like a contagion.
    — Wired, 21 July 2022
  • Yet, despite the paths of contagion leading back to the U.S., the disease was contained.
    — Philipp Carlsson-Szlezak, Fortune, 17 July 2023
  • Athens is the only one of Ohio’s 88 counties that has dropped out of the red zone of contagion as of Wednesday.
    — Anne Saker, The Enquirer, 18 Nov. 2021
  • And maybe that’s why — and I’m only supposing here — that’s why it wasn’t pursued in the end, the idea of the contagion.
    — Keith Phipps, The Verge, 24 June 2019
  • For years, many have sought to isolate the contagion of populism.
    — Corey Robin, The New York Review of Books, 13 Apr. 2020
  • The contagion card forces another player to pick up all of the cards in the center pile.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Dec. 2020
  • The first test for the biggest companies in tech will be contagion from their peers.
    — New York Times, 20 May 2022
  • The episode concluded the show's two-part contagion event, and there were signs that the three series' leads could have died.
    — Charna Flam, People.com, 18 Apr. 2025
  • Even if the effect is minor, the fear of contagion will roil U.S. markets for at least a while.
    — Milton Ezrati, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2021
  • The method of the contagion has been perplexing to experts.
    — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 5 Mar. 2020
  • One sailor died in the contagion, and its captain was dismissed.
    — Abraham Mahshie, Washington Examiner, 26 Oct. 2020
  • Running a stopwatch against the whole program just infects the good uses with the contagion of the bad.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 5 Sep. 2019
  • The worst fears of an unchecked financial contagion have eased.
    — David J. Lynch, Washington Post, 16 Apr. 2023
  • In dense neighborhoods, the events play out like a contagion.
    — Evan Bush, NBC News, 19 Jan. 2025
  • But what won’t stop are the sirens. While the world’s attention shifts to its own centers of contagion, the sirens keep sounding.
    — Jason Horowitz, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Mar. 2020
  • Sobyanin said the city reversed the decision because the pace of contagion has slowed.
    — Fox News, 16 July 2021
  • That type of worry, though, spreads like a contagion to voters.
    — John Blake, CNN, 22 June 2024
  • At the same time, the chaos caused by the coup has created conditions ripe for contagion.
    — Feliz Solomon, WSJ, 23 July 2021
  • This season’s climb was burdened after an injury contagion and six red cards.
    — Jordan Campbell, New York Times, 19 May 2025

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