How to Use pandemic in a Sentence

pandemic

1 of 2 adjective
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  • Last year’s record decline in the homicide rate brings to an end the spikes that occurred during the pandemic years.
    — Jacob Turcotte, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Jan. 2024
  • But some of the headlines about the amount of fraud in pandemic assistance are likely overblown.
    — Patrick T. Brown, CNN, 28 Jan. 2023
  • This marks an increase of up to 32% from pre-pandemic levels.
    — Nancy Chen, Analisa Novak, CBS News, 22 Mar. 2023
  • And that in itself is the result of the weird post-pandemic economic cycle.
    — Peter Vanham, Fortune, 3 Feb. 2023
  • But again, these pandemic responses were not the root cause.
    — Richard Werner, Fortune, 20 Mar. 2023
  • As a result, the E.U. will most likely not disperse the pandemic-relief funds to Poland while awaiting the results.
    — Elisabeth Zerofsky, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2023
  • For some people, their pandemic pup came with a little bit of sticker shock.
    — Justin Ray, Robb Report, 16 May 2023
  • The piece was inspired by the police killing of George Floyd and the civil unrest that sprawled out across the pandemic pressure cooker that was summer 2020.
    — Duante Beddingfield, Detroit Free Press, 5 May 2023
  • That was down from 4.68 million a year earlier, and even lower than the levels plumbed right after the pandemic hit.
    — Justin Lahart, WSJ, 21 Oct. 2023
  • In the post-pandemic world, customers are looking for more human engagement in the buying process.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Still, this time may be different, as post-pandemic back-to-office policies do vary.
    — Michelle Cheng, Quartz, 3 Feb. 2023
  • This year was also the first year the league was able to operate a season without any pandemic restrictions.
    — Maritza Dominguez, The Arizona Republic, 25 Aug. 2023
  • After the pandemic shutdown touring for an extended, many acts are hitting the road in 2023.
    — Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 15 June 2023
  • Still, the positive reception inspired a new crush of tourists to fill Dali’s shops and streets once pandemic restrictions were dropped.
    — Stephanie Yang, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2023
  • San Francisco’s office vacancy rate shot up to a new record high of 29.4% in the first quarter, nearly eight times the pre-pandemic level.
    — Roland Li, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Mar. 2023
  • But a pandemic sales boom, caused by masses of people needing to learn how to cook for themselves, made the appliance harder to ignore.
    — Aaron Hutcherson, Washington Post, 14 June 2023
  • Many artists have finally shaken out the pandemic cobwebs and are releasing some of the best music of their careers.
    — Spin Staff, SPIN, 21 Dec. 2023
  • It: Philips has made everything from beard trimmers to light bulbs to baby bottles and, since the pandemic, cordless water flossers (yay).
    — Annie Blackman, Allure, 2 Apr. 2024
  • Federal pandemic aid helped cover those costs, but that funding and the emergency contract expire at the end of this school year.
    — Sara Ruberg, NBC News, 4 Mar. 2023
  • Nordstrom closed 16 of its stores under the pressure of pandemic restrictions.
    — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Nov. 2023
  • That, too, makes sense: The economy was in a deep recession, but households were being buoyed by trillions of dollars in pandemic aid.
    — David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2023
  • Illinois has spent about 32% of its $4.8 billion in federal pandemic relief and is on track to meet the deadline for depleting the funds, Mr. Mohip said.
    — Ben Chapman, WSJ, 24 Jan. 2023
  • During the pandemic, much speculation had swirled around the future of Park Tavern, which was long closed, briefly reopened and then shut down again for the remodel in 2021.
    — Elena Kadvany, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 May 2023
  • The payment pause on federal loans has been extended eight times since March 2020 as part of a pandemic relief measure.
    — Tara Siegel Bernard, New York Times, 1 June 2023
  • If the pandemic housing market was tough for buyers, the post-pandemic housing market might be even tougher.
    — USA TODAY, 20 July 2023
  • After ticket sales rebounded to about 67% of pre-pandemic levels last year, the release lineup is steadier and more packed this year.
    — Jake Coyle, Chicago Tribune, 26 Mar. 2023
  • Following the pandemic closures, some theaters shut down for good, while others teetered.
    — Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2024
  • The planet is no longer in pandemic status, according to the World Health Organization, which declared it over in May.
    — Byerin Prater, Fortune Well, 27 June 2023
  • Dang said that receiving racist remarks isn’t new to her, and that during the height of the Covid pandemic verbal attacks became more common on public transit.
    — Kimmy Yam, NBC News, 29 Sep. 2023
  • During the pandemic many companies were forced to transition their employees to work from home.
    — Sixteen Ramos, USA TODAY, 23 Aug. 2023
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pandemic

2 of 2 noun
  • The 1918 flu pandemic claimed millions of lives.
  • This has been the best summer for movie ticket sales since the start of the pandemic.
    — Jon Passantino, CNN, 2 Aug. 2023
  • As the pandemic heated up, so did the demand for homes in warmer-weather places.
    — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Live selling is the hot ticket and has been ever since the height of the Covid-19 pandemic when the world was largely hunkered down.
    — Sharon Edelson, Forbes, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Mai agrees that the brand benefited from the pandemic in some ways.
    — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 12 Oct. 2023
  • The exception to this is reports of change in taste or smell, which declined from 42% early in the pandemic.
    — Alexander Tin, CBS News, 21 Dec. 2023
  • Revenue crashed during the pandemic, when travel and car-pooling ground to a halt.
    — Mark Bergen, Fortune Europe, 3 Apr. 2024
  • The book itself began life as a way for the sisters to work together during the pandemic.
    — Parul Sehgal, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2024
  • Both the price of acquiring public housing on the open market, as well as rents, rose during the pandemic.
    — Lionel Lim, Fortune, 6 Nov. 2023
  • The Covid-19 pandemic has also made the option to buy online and pick up in-store more common than ever before.
    — Louryn Strampe, WIRED, 10 July 2023
  • Then the world shut down as the Covid-19 pandemic and lockdowns became a new reality.
    — Roslyn Sulcas, New York Times, 2 Aug. 2023
  • The agency’s performance during the pandemic left much to be desired, and lost it much public trust.
    — M. Anthony Mills, National Review, 5 Nov. 2023
  • Many members entered the workforce during the pandemic, and have been forced to deal with sky-high inflation.
    — Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Being forced indoors due to the Canadian wildfires evoked the lockdown days of the Covid pandemic, albeit with its own twists.
    — Boone Ashworth, WIRED, 25 Aug. 2023
  • When the Covid-19 pandemic upended the lives of American consumers, retail storefronts in cities across the U.S. were forced close their doors.
    — Francisco Velasquez, Quartz, 8 Mar. 2024
  • While staffing shortage began before 2020, the pandemic was the tipping point for many nurses.
    — Chris Isidore, CNN, 1 Oct. 2023
  • The group used to meet in person, eventually switching to Zoom during the pandemic.
    — Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Ottman immediately got to work re-shaping the story with the writers, before the Covid-19 pandemic stalled the project once again.
    — Katcy Stephan, Variety, 15 Apr. 2024
  • In addition, New Yorkers who fled to the Hamptons during the pandemic are now facing a return-to-office push that’s putting an end to the work-from-home era.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 3 Nov. 2023
  • During the pandemic, Koll fell into ice cream-making out of boredom.
    — Roxana Becerril, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Jan. 2024
  • During the pandemic, a wave of US residents migrated to Southern states in search of more space and a lower cost of living.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 12 Oct. 2023
  • The pandemic erased two decades of progress in math and reading, and researchers have documented that the poverty rate is the best predictor of the extent of that learning loss.
    — Jem Aswad, Variety, 9 Jan. 2024
  • The loss of the longtime stalwarts like downtown’s Blue Whale, which closed during the pandemic, certainly don’t help matters.
    — Brynn Shiovitz, Los Angeles Times, 11 Dec. 2023
  • The loans were given to business owners struggling during the pandemic.
    — Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 13 Oct. 2023
  • This is the first summer without a reservation system at Yosemite since before the pandemic.
    — Cari Spencer, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2023
  • In some cases, Newsom has released people during the pandemic against the wishes of his own parole board.
    — Mackenzie Mays, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2023
  • This was a long time coming, originally slated for 2020, but postponed due to the pandemic.
    — Liz Appel, Vogue, 21 July 2023
  • Nelson also believes the pandemic kept more sick people at home, and that sick people may be more inclined to travel these days.
    — Natalie B. Compton, Andrea Sachs and Heidi Pérez-Moreno, The Washington Post, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Sep. 2023
  • The pandemic also saw an exodus of employees, while health and safety measures slowed the training of new ones.
    — Sam Burros, Peoplemag, 25 Aug. 2023
  • The once largely seasonal crime grew during the pandemic, when trips to stores were difficult, and has since become far more common throughout the year in D.C. and elsewhere.
    — Peter Hermann, Washington Post, 13 Apr. 2024

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