become infected with
Example Sentences
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Most often, people become infected with these viruses by inhaling aerosolized urine or droppings from infected rodents.
From Salon • May 9, 2026
High dose vitamin D supplementation also did not lower the chance that household contacts would become infected with COVID-19.
From Science Daily • Mar. 15, 2026
About 1 in 20 people who become infected with dengue will become seriously ill, suffering shock, internal bleeding, organ impairment or respiratory failure.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 30, 2024
She said they had become infected with groupthink – no-one was challenging the orthodoxy.
From BBC • Jul. 18, 2024
He had baked for an Oxford college so long that he had become infected with the squeamish leaven of the nineteenth century.
From An American at Oxford by Corbin, John
