How to Use cholera in a Sentence

cholera

noun
Definition of choleranext
  • He is thought to be the first cholera case in Kingston.
    — Jim Downs, Time, 2 Sep. 2021
  • They were sent by the hundreds to fight cholera in Haiti and Ebola in West Africa in the 2010s.
    — Sarah Midkiff, refinery29.com, 27 Mar. 2020
  • Did all the members of the other team come down with cholera during the game?
    — Rubén Rosario, Twin Cities, 29 July 2019
  • The state accounts for the biggest share of the 653 cholera deaths recorded in the country as a whole by the NCDC.
    — Reuters, CNN, 3 Aug. 2021
  • The U.N. says that Yemen's cholera outbreak has killed 124 people over the past two weeks.
    — Bloomberg.com, 16 May 2017
  • Read More Trump didn’t want to give Haiti $11 million for cholera.
    — Jacqueline Charles, miamiherald, 15 June 2018
  • The children's agency has sent a team to the area to work on limiting the spread of cholera.
    — Larry Madowo, Saskya Vandoorne and Niamh Kennedy, CNN, 24 May 2021
  • In 2017, more than a million Yemenis caught cholera, and the disease is again on the rise.
    — Erin Blakemore, National Geographic, 21 May 2019
  • Macron and Le Pen is like choosing between the plague or cholera.
    — Colette Davidson, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Apr. 2022
  • More than 2,000 people have died since the cholera outbreak began to spread at the end of April, the WHO said.
    — Hamdi Alkhshali and Tamara Qiblawi, CNN, 26 Oct. 2017
  • The lack of toilets has prompted fears of a cholera outbreak.
    — New York Times, 10 July 2018
  • The threat of cholera and the risk of death exhilarated him.
    — The Economist, 4 June 2020
  • So far no cholera deaths have been confirmed, the report said.
    — Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi, The Seattle Times, 31 Mar. 2019
  • The resource needs for the cholera vaccine are known, Garrett says.
    — Fortune, 21 July 2017
  • The Quaker City had just come from Italy, where cholera was rampant.
    — John J. Miller, National Review, 16 Apr. 2020
  • Polk died from cholera, just three months after leaving the White House.
    — CBS News, 11 Apr. 2018
  • The children's agency is sending a team to the area to work on limiting the spread of cholera.
    — Melissa Mahtani, CNN, 27 May 2021
  • Clean water is scarce and the country faces a cholera outbreak.
    — Edith M. Lederer, ajc, 21 Oct. 2022
  • WHO says cholera is present in 20 of Yemen’s 22 governorates.
    — Jamey Keaten, The Seattle Times, 21 June 2017
  • Rape, cholera and rubble seemed the only things in great supply.
    — Jeffrey A. Engel, Twin Cities, 6 June 2019
  • And the scarcity of water has led to an outbreak of diseases such as cholera.
    — Selam Berhea, Twin Cities, 31 May 2017
  • The news of cholera spreading from Asia into Russia was the least of his worries.
    — The Economist, 6 June 2020
  • Mr Baher does not recall an outbreak of cholera in the past ten years.
    — The Economist, 22 Mar. 2018
  • April 2017 - A cholera outbreak begins in Yemen amid war.
    — Cnn Editorial Research, CNN, 19 May 2021
  • In the United Kingdom, cholera swept away thousands in just hours.
    — David Rosner, Foreign Affairs, 18 Nov. 2020
  • The cholera epidemic, which had ebbed in recent months, threatens to surge again due to a lack of medicines.
    — TIME.com, 19 Dec. 2017
  • Meanwhile, a cholera outbreak last year claimed more than 2,000 lives.
    — Eli Meixler, Time, 7 June 2018
  • The conflict has fanned the world’s worst recent cholera outbreak and put many on the brink of starvation.
    — Washington Post, 3 Apr. 2018
  • This makes a perfect breeding ground for the spread of malaria, cholera and tuberculosis.
    — Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 25 Nov. 2024
  • The world saw its first cholera pandemic unfold and even the Battle of Waterloo couldn’t escape Mount Tambora’s volcanic influence.
    — Scott Travers, Forbes, 8 Dec. 2024

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