How to Use pox in a Sentence

pox

noun
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  • The Elf on the Shelf has come down with a good case of Christmas pox.
    — Corinne Sullivan, Good Housekeeping, 11 Nov. 2022
  • Oh no, these elves have come down with a case of the Christmas pox!
    — Katie Bowlby, Country Living, 11 Nov. 2022
  • It’s kind of a pox on both their houses to some degree.
    — Michael Schneider, Variety, 29 Mar. 2022
  • In the photograph, one face is clear, while the other is riddled with pox.
    — Brit Trogen, The Atlantic, 14 Jan. 2021
  • For starters, the pox isn’t nearly as contagious as Covid.
    — David Axe, Rolling Stone, 23 May 2022
  • Slow play has been a pox on the pro game since long before Mickelson, 49, arrived on the scene.
    — Karen Crouse, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2019
  • After five to seven days, all the pox will be dry scabs, which means the child is no longer contagious.
    — Parents Editors, Parents, 6 June 2023
  • Beginning to think that’s going to be a pox on the talented lad.
    — Peter King, SI.com, 25 Sep. 2017
  • Spanish invaders are thought to have unleashed a throng of pathogens and plagues from the Old World, including small pox and typhoid.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 16 Jan. 2018
  • The fact is, no child can show up at school this fall without showing their immunizations, small pox and -- and measles, et cetera.
    — ABC News, 25 July 2021
  • In addition to the signature pox, the virus causes fever, headaches, muscle aches, fatigue, back pain and chills, per the CDC.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 May 2022
  • After the itchy blisters of chicken pox disappear, the virus goes dormant in nerve cells.
    — Linda Loyd, Philly.com, 21 June 2017
  • There were two outbreaks of a pox-like disease in colonies of monkeys kept for research, which is where the disease's name derives.
    — Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 9 May 2022
  • The victim in this case was me—though there will soon be many others as Guy Ritchie’s pox on Camelot infests the multiplexes.
    — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 11 May 2017
  • The World Health Organization is in the process of establishing a new name for the virus, which causes a pox-like rash.
    — Lilly Price, Baltimore Sun, 16 June 2022
  • Plus, there is a risk of long-term complications if the pox lesions develop in areas around the eye or GI tract.
    — Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN, 31 July 2022
  • To Soros, Xi is a pox not only on China but on the rest of the world, and represents a break with the far friendlier autocrats who ruled before him.
    — Washington Post, 17 Sep. 2021
  • Macmillan also thinks that grays get a bad rap as carriers of squirrel pox.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 16 Apr. 2018
  • The virus is also transmitted by contact with clothes or linens that have touched infected rashes or pox, the CDC said.
    — Alexander Thompson, BostonGlobe.com, 3 July 2022
  • The temporary relief that Vicks or Halls or Mucinex once offered as their main benefit to a sick person has a pox against it now.
    — New York Times, 4 May 2022
  • The virus also can be spread through bedding or towels that touched an infectious skin lesion or pox.
    — Grace Tooheystaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2022
  • The bacteria can also infect coral—in 2002, Porter and his colleagues learned that S. marcescens causes white pox disease in elkhorn coral.
    — Joseph Castro, Discover Magazine, 18 Aug. 2011
  • As is a local tradition, attendees will then cast a pox on King George after the reading.
    — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 2 July 2021
  • It was first discovered in 1958 when two outbreaks of a pox-like disease occurred in research monkeys, hence its name.
    — Denise Roland, WSJ, 20 May 2022
  • Robb Drinkwater, a designer from the school, worked with artists and neighborhood groups to build a waterproof, heat-resistant box that wouldn’t look like a pox on the city.
    — Scott Canon, kansascity, 7 Aug. 2017
  • But rather than the sheets of black pustules that develop in a lethal case, X’s patient would grow only a smattering of smaller and lighter-colored pox.
    — Cody Cassidy, Wired, 8 June 2020
  • From pox in Chiapas, to Mexican rums in Michoacan, these are some of our favorite spirits and drinks to seek out on your next trip—plus where to find them, and how to drink them.
    — Tyler Zielinski, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 July 2020
  • Their columns keep returning to a gloomy pox-on-both-your-houses conclusion.
    — Jeet Heer, New Republic, 15 Feb. 2018
  • Vaccinia is a pox family virus related to smallpox that cannot cause smallpox and leads to milder disease.
    — Tom Inglesby, STAT, 12 Aug. 2022
  • Monkeypox is a disease caused by an infection with a pox virus that belongs to the same family of viruses that cause smallpox.
    — Annie Berman, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Aug. 2022

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