Get to know Virulent better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like deadly or venomous.
Virulent meaning
- Of animals, plants, or substances: extremely venomous or poisonous.
- Extremely hostile or malicious; intensely acrimonious.
- Of a disease or disease-causing agent: malignant, able to cause damage to the host.
Synonyms of Virulent
Using Virulent
- The main meaning on this page is: Of animals, plants, or substances: extremely venomous or poisonous. | Extremely hostile or malicious; intensely acrimonious. | Of a disease or disease-causing agent: malignant, able to cause damage to the host.
- Useful related words include: deadly, venomous, sulphurous, sulfurous.
- In the example corpus, virulent often appears in combinations such as: more virulent, most virulent, of virulent.
Context around Virulent
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 8 middle, 9 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Virulent
- In this selection, "virulent" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 23.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, less, particularly, increasingly, type, activist and versions stand out and add context to how "virulent" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a more virulent variant of and a most virulent violent year. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "virulent" sits close to words such as asbury, azam and bally, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with virulent
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Wildfires were increasingly common, increasingly virulent. (6 words)
It’s going to be a most virulent, violent year. (10 words)
Apparently the 23,000 Jews that belong to that group are virulent anti-Semites. (14 words)
The most virulent of Israel-hating media outlets take it a step further with the term “Israel’s war on Gaza” (The Electronic Intifada), but “Israel’s war in Gaza” is the term of choice among the establishment left-wing media. (41 words)
A string of EU countries, including France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Italy, announced restrictions on travel from the UK in response to Mr Johnson’s announcement of a virulent new strain of Covid circulating in the UK. (37 words)
She noted that lockdowns and extensive use of masks for extended periods of time helped control transmission of more virulent versions of the virus, but also prevented good exposure of regular seasonal respiratory viruses. (34 words)
Example sentences (20)
One possibility is that SK is an S (less virulent) type outbreak and Italy is an L type (more virulent.
A particularly virulent activist organization is hosting a “22 Century Initiative” conference in Minnesota this week to promote “multiracial pluralistic democracy” while combating the white, Christian-dominated “fascism” embodied by Donald Trump.
She noted that lockdowns and extensive use of masks for extended periods of time helped control transmission of more virulent versions of the virus, but also prevented good exposure of regular seasonal respiratory viruses.
The reaction in Iraq was particularly virulent, although no embassy staff were injured since none were present.
Wildfires were increasingly common, increasingly virulent.
And it’s true that the tweets directed at her that appear on the screen during this earlier period smack more of virulent misogyny than violent tendencies.
Apparently the 23,000 Jews that belong to that group are virulent anti-Semites.
Experts state that while JN.1 is more infectious, doctors confirm it is less virulent, minimising the likelihood of severe outcomes.
It is more virulent than clade II — the strain responsible for the 2022 Mpox outbreak.
It’s going to be a most virulent, violent year.
Nothing the Jews could have done would have impeded the emergence of the Germany’s virulent antisemitism Friedländer acknowledged.
That would be the kindest way to deal with the virulent and mindless cross country campus attacks on Jews, who happen to be fellow students as well as fellow Americans.
The most virulent of Israel-hating media outlets take it a step further with the term “Israel’s war on Gaza” (The Electronic Intifada), but “Israel’s war in Gaza” is the term of choice among the establishment left-wing media.
We’re a historically Christian seminary – and Christians have been and continue to be the source of some of the most virulent forms of hatred and violence.
According to the researchers, the patient may also have come in contact with a more virulent variant of the virus.
According to the results, the virus remains virulent on cardboard (i.e. a pizza box) for up to 24 hours.
And ever since, scientists have been that another, far more virulent virus could be transmitted from wildlife to humans if these wet markets were not shut down.
And in Vancouver, the boxer Tommy Burns was hospitalised having been struck by Spanish Flu “in its most virulent form”.
As the Impeachment Farce neared its pathetic denouement, an optimist might have expected that the virulent Trump Derangement Syndrome infecting the MSM, the Dems and the Washington ruling class would finally die out.
A string of EU countries, including France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Italy, announced restrictions on travel from the UK in response to Mr Johnson’s announcement of a virulent new strain of Covid circulating in the UK.
Common combinations with virulent
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: