germs

Example Sentences

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Germs can live for hours outside the body on surfaces.

From BBC • Jan. 10, 2023

Germs don’t magically jump from the toilet seat to the urinary tract, she explains.

From Slate • Oct. 12, 2022

Germs are thought to rarely seep through gowns and sicken the wearer, but with gowns used constantly in hospitals every day, even a small gap in protection could be magnified millions of times over.

From Scientific American • Jul. 5, 2022

Steve and I drove the Germs around one night to a recording studio where they all sang and made a single.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 1, 2022

Germs were question marks even in the minds of many doctors.

From "Kindred" by Octavia Butler