How to Use deworm in a Sentence

deworm

verb
Definition of dewormnext
  • As far as Rene, the group took the injured puppy to the doctors and dewormed him.
    — Francisco Guzman and Saeed Ahmed, CNN, 21 Feb. 2020
  • Brady, who said the kittens' mother died, said the five girls and one boy are still nursing and are in the process of being dewormed.
    — Tiffini Theisen, orlandosentinel.com, 22 July 2019
  • One of them is a veterinary drug mebendazole that had been used to deworm the mice used in the cancer lab.
    — Meredith Cohn, baltimoresun.com, 20 July 2017
  • Goats, dairy sheep and barn cats mostly look out for themselves, requiring little more than hay in winter and a regular squirt in the mouth of deworming paste.
    — Christopher McDougall, New York Times, 23 Nov. 2016
  • The demand is for ivermectin, a drug primarily used to deworm animals that has become the latest false cure for Covid-19.
    — NBC News, 26 Aug. 2021
  • Ivermectin is a drug primarily used to deworm animals and has become the latest false cure for Covid-19.
    — NBC News, 1 Sep. 2021
  • After the surgery, doctors dewormed the boy and his family members with an oral dose of mebendazole, and he was released after seven days.
    — Fox News, 11 June 2019
  • All pets should be dewormed and have a stool test come back negative, because some parasites can be dangerous to humans.
    — Elizabeth Greenwood, New York Times, 16 Apr. 2020
  • The older kittens are spayed/neutered, vaccinated, and dewormed.
    — Terry Demio, Cincinnati.com, 26 Feb. 2018
  • All dogs and cats available for adoption have been spayed or neutered, received blood work, vaccinations, deworming and flea treatments.
    — Megan Becka, cleveland.com, 12 July 2019
  • The authors noted that the boy’s case points to a larger public health issue in Cameroon, where deworming programs are affected by lack of funding and access in high-risk areas.
    — Fox News, 11 June 2019
  • Banh treated the patient with deworming medication and quizzed him about lifestyle or travel habits that could have led to the diagnosis.
    — Jamie Ducharme, Time, 19 Jan. 2018
  • Owners must have proof of vaccinations, deworming and a negative feline leukemia virus test.
    — Karla Peterson, sandiegouniontribune.com, 1 Sep. 2017
  • All dogs are vaccinated against rabies, parvo and distemper and are dewormed before flight.
    — Donna Vickroy, Daily Southtown, 6 July 2017
  • An equestrian supply store has sold out of a drug primarily used to deworm horses that vaccine skeptics are peddling as a remedy to the coronavirus.
    — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 30 Aug. 2021
  • McGill said race officials alerted the other 2018 Yukon Quest mushers as well as the communities the race passed through about the presence of whipworms on the trail, urging them to talk to a veterinarian about deworming protocols.
    — Tegan Hanlon, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Apr. 2018
  • Your adoption fee typically includes the first round of vaccinations, along with other medical services, like deworming and a spay or neuter.
    — USA TODAY, 22 June 2018
  • In 2010, founder Jane Parker-Rauw decided to have locals and tourists alike help socialize the animals to humans and other dogs (don't worry: Pups have to be vaccinated and dewormed before they are allowed to comingle).
    — Melissa Minton, Teen Vogue, 11 July 2017
  • By using randomisation to set the schedule by which different schools’ pupils would be treated for intestinal worms, Mr Kremer and his co-author, Edward Miguel, learned that deworming improved health and attendance—but not test scores.
    — The Economist, 21 Nov. 2019
  • McGill said those results indicate Boppy was likely not on the proper schedule for deworming medication.
    — Tegan Hanlon, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Apr. 2018
  • The fee includes a microchip, deworming, rabies and booster vaccinations and spaying or neutering.
    — Elizabeth Koh, miamiherald, 13 June 2017
  • Clinic services include nail trimming, microchipping, deworming and heartworm testing.
    — Karen Zurawski, Houston Chronicle, 12 June 2018
  • The coalition helps to identify effective interventions — like deworming campaigns — and then joins with governments and nongovernmental organizations to carry them out.
    — Jeanna Smialek, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2019
  • Ivermectin was originally developed to deworm livestock animals before doctors began using it against parasitic diseases among humans.
    — Cameron Knight, The Enquirer, 3 Sep. 2021
  • Vitamin supplements and deworming yielded similar results.
    — Dennis Normile, Science | AAAS, 21 Sep. 2017

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