How to Use tetanus in a Sentence

tetanus

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  • On the one hand, tetanus shots can stay durable for over 30 years.
    — Dr. Genevieve Yang, ABC News, 3 June 2022
  • The infirmary staff patched up my wounds and threw in a free tetanus shot.
    — Darcel Rockett, chicagotribune.com, 14 Nov. 2019
  • The vaccines are given in your arm like a flu or tetanus shot.
    — Korin Miller, Health.com, 29 Sep. 2021
  • They were all treated for rabies, in case of bats in the cave, and tetanus, and set up with IV drips.
    — Shibani Mahtani, Washington Post, 10 July 2018
  • At the next practice, Jones impaled his left hand on the screw and needed a tetanus shot.
    — Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 22 June 2023
  • They were all treated for rabies — in case there were bats in the cave — as well as tetanus, and they were given IV drips.
    — Washington Post, BostonGlobe.com, 10 July 2018
  • My mother made me get a tetanus shot, and the whole incident was all but the end of my fishing career.
    — Heather Radke, Longreads, 16 June 2018
  • Of these, the most common are measles, mumps, rubella, polio, flu, smallpox and tetanus.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2021
  • She was given a tetanus shot and prescribed antibiotics, the records show.
    — Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 26 Apr. 2024
  • He was sent home with a tetanus shot and antibiotics, but the injury got worse over the next few days, becoming red, swollen and painful to the touch.
    — Aria Bendix, NBC News, 9 June 2023
  • The mother of the other boy took her son to a doctor, who administered a tetanus shot.
    — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 27 Mar. 2020
  • His brother John had died, suddenly, of tetanus in 1842.
    — R.h. Lossin, The New York Review of Books, 4 Sep. 2020
  • Botox is similar to the toxin at work in a tetanus infection.
    — Fabian Schmidt, USA TODAY, 9 Mar. 2018
  • The vaccines are given in the arm like a flu or tetanus vaccine; rabies vaccines are not given in the stomach, the CDC said.
    — Leada Gore | Lgore@al.com, al.com, 1 July 2019
  • And adults should get booster shots to protect against tetanus and diphtheria every 10 years or so.
    — Donavyn Coffey, SELF, 21 May 2021
  • Lockjaw was a bum suffering from tetanus, staying in a flop in Pittsburgh.
    — Justin Beal, Harper’s Magazine , 12 Dec. 2022
  • John Roebling, who was chief engineer and had designed the project, died of tetanus about a month after his foot injury.
    — cleveland, 18 Feb. 2021
  • Her third child, Sarah, while recovering, stepped on a nail and needed a tetanus booster.
    — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 9 July 2021
  • Not everyone can get the Tdap vaccine as their booster shot for tetanus instead.
    — Alexander Tin, CBS News, 28 Feb. 2024
  • More than 270 million Americans received a Tdap vaccine against tetanus and diptheria in the same time frame.
    — Jake Zuckerman, The Enquirer, 20 Aug. 2020
  • Our world-renowned hospital has plenty of tetanus shots on standby.
    — Joseph Goodman, AL.com, 29 Mar. 2018
  • Centra Care has also given about 20% more tetanus shots than the week before the hurricane.
    — Caroline Catherman, Orlando Sentinel, 4 Oct. 2022
  • People need to get a flu shot every year, and tetanus shots require a booster, so the need for booster shots is routine, Allan said.
    — Julie Washington, cleveland, 29 Sep. 2021
  • Growing up in postwar Italy at age 12, Luciano Pavarotti fell ill with tetanus and sank into a coma for two weeks.
    — Kyle Smith, National Review, 4 June 2019
  • All told, vaccines made my childhood safe from measles, mumps, tetanus, diphtheria, and a host of other ailments.
    — National Geographic, 5 Aug. 2020
  • Children have been required to get immunized for mumps, measles, rubella and tetanus for decades, Jack noted.
    — Dallas News, 24 Feb. 2022
  • Jason received six sutures for a laceration on his knee and a tetanus shot.
    — Kaiser Health News, oregonlive, 27 Nov. 2021
  • For example, a tetanus shot for a vet seeking treatment for a wound caused by a rusted metal object.
    — courant.com, 26 Aug. 2019
  • Getting tetanus can be devastating, as a 2017 case in Oregon showed.
    — New York Times, 18 June 2019
  • Though there has been some success in reducing or preventing important risk factors tied to neurological illness since 1990, such as greater vaccination coverage for certain diseases like tetanus, the authors say more can and should be done.
    — Ed Cara / Gizmodo, Quartz, 19 Mar. 2024

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