contagious

How To Use contagious In A Sentence

• Poverty is something that is contagious and infectious in our community.
• Scarlet fever is highly contagious.
• Half-an-hour later they were launching the canoe and loading up, while the storekeeper made jocular remarks about poor, weak mortals and the contagiousness of "stampedin 'fever. TOO MUCH GOLD
• His smile was contagious, his wave was heartfelt and the toot of his horn was one of a kind.
• Alternatively, the faculty might have contagious diseases, such as tuberculosis or varicella, and could infect patients.
• (PLAYG) A highly contagious disease, such as bubonic plague, that spreads quickly throughout a population and causes widespread sickness and death. Plague
• Some positive news surfaced yesterday: Mexican scientists said the contagiousness of the swine flu is no greater than that of the seasonal flu that circulates every year.
• Straight into the bin this morning seeing as they're "toxic", i.e., hand decorated by typhoid Ramekin yesterday, probably in the prime of his contagiousness. So . . .
• And they looked like they were having fun and that fun was contagious.
• HIV is a lethal contagious disease spread by contact with blood and body fluids.