How to use "epidemic" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "epidemic" in popular movie and book plots

  • It is set during an 1862 cholera epidemic in Russia in which fear drove people to mob action.  - Children of the Sun (play)
  • She survives epidemic disease (the Antonine Plague) and a Germanic invasion that is part of the Marcomannic Wars.  - Household Gods
  • As dr Livingstone had warned repeatedly, a deadly epidemic of yellow fever sweeps the city, as it had done numerous times before.  - Jezebel (film)
  • This makes Merrin suspicious because there are stories of an epidemic that wiped out an entire village in the valley 50 years earlier.  - Exorcist: The Beginning
  • A new character, dr Finn O'Neill is introduced when a cholera epidemic occurs in the area and Finn assists in the hospital.  - Bramwell
  • An epidemic ensues from coast to coast.  - Many, Many Monkeys
  • Freed by Spain's changing sides and fleeing a yellow fever epidemic ashore, she requests passage back to England.  - The Happy Return
  • In the background of the story is an epidemic mental illness, related in some way to the imminent discovery of the TOE.  - Distress (novel)
  • The group gathers at Giles' where they see that the news is reporting that Sunnydale is suffering from an epidemic of laryngitis.  - Hush (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
  • When a smallpox epidemic sweeps through Lima, Camila is disfigured by it.  - The Bridge of San Luis Rey
  • While tending the dying during an epidemic she finds Gabriel among the sick, and he sadly dies in her arms.  - Evangeline
  • After a cholera epidemic kills her parents and the servants, Mary is discovered alive but alone in the empty house.  - The Secret Garden
  • He reunites with Karno and hopes to locate Hetty, but Karno sadly informs him that she died in a flu epidemic shorty after the war.  - Chaplin (film)
  • Many students fall ill when a typhus epidemic strikes, and Jane's friend Helen dies of consumption in her arms.  - Jane Eyre
  • The fake suicides prompt an epidemic of similar attempts.  - Heathers
  • Cottard is distressed by the ending of the epidemic from which he has profited by shady dealings.  - The Plague

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