Smallpox is an English word with synonyms like variola or pox. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Smallpox in a sentence
Smallpox meaning
An acute, highly infectious often fatal disease caused by Variola virus of the family Poxviridae. It was completely eradicated in the 1970s, but still exists in laboratories. Those who survived were left with pockmarks.
Using Smallpox
- The main meaning on this page is: An acute, highly infectious often fatal disease caused by Variola virus of the family Poxviridae. It was completely eradicated in the 1970s, but still exists in laboratories. Those who survived were left with pockmarks.
- Useful related words include: variola, variola major, pox.
- In the example corpus, smallpox often appears in combinations such as: of smallpox, smallpox and, the smallpox.
Context around Smallpox
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 11 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Smallpox
- In this selection, "smallpox" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, routine, similar, actual, war, vaccinations and pandemic stand out and add context to how "smallpox" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include as smallpox pandemic was and book the smallpox war against. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "smallpox" sits close to words such as additives, alfie and appreciating, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with smallpox
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
For smallpox, 33 percent. (4 words)
Season two is the season on eradication of smallpox. (9 words)
The EPI helped eliminate smallpox, fight polio and massively reduce child mortality. (12 words)
A parallel can be drawn here with Smallpox, the world rid themselves of that cruel disease but when the last stocks were due to be destroyed both the US and Russia refused and kept samples, citing the precedence of the other to do the same. (45 words)
At a tenement house in Manhattan’s Little Italy, over 200 men in 1901 in essence performed a smallpox vaccination raid in the middle of the night, trying to vaccinate as many people as they could. (36 words)
Edward Jenner had also discovered vaccination using cowpox ( Vaccinia ) to give cross-immunity to smallpox in 1796, and by Pasteur's time this had generally replaced the use of actual smallpox ( Variola ) material in inoculation. (35 words)
Example sentences (20)
In his latest book, The Smallpox War against the Haida), he relates how the Haida were wary of smallpox.
Since smallpox was officially eradicated, however, routine smallpox vaccinations for the U.S. general population were stopped in 1972.
As smallpox pandemic was rampaging in Lady Mary Montagu, wife to the British Ambassador to Turkey, witnessed the ancient Turk practice of inoculating children with smallpox matter.
After infection by the cowpox virus, the body (usually) gains the ability to recognize the similar smallpox virus from its antigens and is able to fight the smallpox disease much more efficiently.
Edward Jenner had also discovered vaccination using cowpox ( Vaccinia ) to give cross-immunity to smallpox in 1796, and by Pasteur's time this had generally replaced the use of actual smallpox ( Variola ) material in inoculation.
He did this by inoculating James Phipps with cowpox, a similar virus of smallpox, to create immunity, unlike variolation, which used smallpox to create an immunity to itself.
Many farmers died from smallpox, leaving their wife and the family to survive - so everybody got together and started a charitable trust to help the widows.
Season two is the season on eradication of smallpox.
You would simply get people who are sick with smallpox and you would isolate them immediately and then you would follow all of their contacts.
For smallpox, 33 percent.
It is similar to smallpox but less contagious, and spreads primarily through close contact with infected animals or people, or the consumption of contaminated meat.
It’s comforting to know that Albertans can now spread smallpox and polio with the UCP’s blessings.
Jynneos is a vaccine approved by the Food and Drug Administration for the prevention of smallpox and mpox in adults aged 18 years and older who are at risk of the infection.
Now that the quarantine has been raised, let all of our people be as anxious to report the news as they were to report the smallpox scare.
The EPI helped eliminate smallpox, fight polio and massively reduce child mortality.
They’ve eradicated smallpox from the face of the Earth and reduced diseases such as measles, polio and whooping cough to occasional outbreaks (among the unvaccinated).
With every wave of visitors, Hawaiians were exposed to Western diseases like smallpox, measles, and syphilis, which killed thousands of people.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), this marks the eradication of the second virus from the face of the continent since smallpox 40 years ago.
A parallel can be drawn here with Smallpox, the world rid themselves of that cruel disease but when the last stocks were due to be destroyed both the US and Russia refused and kept samples, citing the precedence of the other to do the same.
At a tenement house in Manhattan’s Little Italy, over 200 men in 1901 in essence performed a smallpox vaccination raid in the middle of the night, trying to vaccinate as many people as they could.
Common combinations with smallpox
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- of smallpox 44×
- smallpox and 26×
- the smallpox 15×
- smallpox in 13×
- with smallpox 10×
- smallpox was 8×
- from smallpox 8×
- against smallpox 8×
- to smallpox 7×
- like smallpox 6×