Examples of 'virus' in a sentence

Meaning of "virus"

Virus: A noun used to describe a type of microscopic infectious agent that replicates inside the living cells of organisms. Can also refer to a piece of code designed to cause damage to a computer system
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  • A submicroscopic, non-cellular structure consisting of a core of DNA or RNA surrounded by a protein coat, that requires a living host cell to replicate, and often causes disease in the host organism; such agents are often classed as nonliving infectious particles and less often as microorganisms.
  • A quantity of such infectious agents
  • A disease caused by such an infectious agent; a viral illness.
  • Venom, as produced by a poisonous animal etc.

How to use "virus" in a sentence

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The virus is effectively a machine run by a computer.
For the ebola virus disease outbreak.
The virus is propagated primarily by heterosexual transmission.
We will keep this virus contained here.
The virus will dust his kind.
I detected a lymphatic virus on board this morning.
Rubella virus is transmitted by the respiratory route.
They said we got hit with a virus.
That pig virus is their extermination plan.
Mumps is an infection caused by the mumps virus.
A deadly virus that attacks the brain.
We do not fully understand the virus yet.
The smallpox virus was eradicated ages ago.
Virus heading into his right arm.
This modified virus seems to really work.

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A virus configured to the specs of your system.
So he embedded a virus into the electoral system.
A virus is too small to be seen on video camera.
Does not prevent virus replication or shedding.
A virus that annihilates two billion people.
Injecting the virus into the tumor.
This virus is without a known vaccine or cure.
The origin of the virus is not known.
The virus is not part of this game.
There is no trace of the virus left at all.
I need the virus at a constant low temperature.
And we will spread across it like a virus.
All the virus cares about is replicating.
Transmission of wild polio virus is declining rapidly.
The virus is spreading through the birds.
This hardware should isolate the virus.
The virus can also survive freezing.
They may have been caused by the virus.
The virus may be airborne and persistant.
I can help you get the virus.
This virus could kill an entire species.
Examined the culture fluid of that virus.
The virus mutated faster than we predicted.
Midkine may be able to suppress the virus.
Our virus does not use a human host.
Our lab is isolating the virus as we speak.
The virus is in the central ventilation unit.
Because the cause of death is not a virus.
The herpes virus vector worked fine.
We have a way to beat the virus now.
The virus you need is very rare.
She was in the process of weaponizing the virus.
The virus escaped and everybody died.
I am positively salivating at a concept of a computer virus hybridization.
The virus is attacking faster than before.

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