flu

[fluː]

Definition:
1. An acute febrile highly contagious viral disease.
2. An infectious disease like a very bad cold, that causes fever, pains and weakness.

'flu' example sentence:

1. Many flu medications are available without a prescription.
2. I got flu.
3. Vaccine supplies started to run dry as the flu outbreak reached epidemic proportions.
4. Three members of the band went down with flu.
5. I think I'm coming down with flu.
6. I can personally attest that the cold and flu season is here.
7. She thought she just had a touch of the flu.
8. I've caught the flu.
9. She thought she just had a touch of flu.
10. He's down with the flu.
11. Winter is the flu season.
12. It's cold and flu season.
13. He was recovering from a severe bout of flu.
14. One pandemic of Spanish flu took nearly 22 million lives worldwide.
15. If one is not strong, it's easy to catch the flu.
16. A cold becomes the flu.
17. It has been snowing, roughly every third day, for as long as I've had the flu.
18. Flu is highly infectious.
19. I was stuck at home with flu.
20. A flu epidemic raged through Europe.
21. Tiredness and fever are much more likely to be a sign of the flu coming on.
22. Tiredness and fever are much more likely to be a sign of flu coming on.
23. Maybe you've got the flu.
24. I was in bed with the flu. My wife can vouch for that.
25. He contracted Spanish flu, which almost killed him.
26. He had come down with the flu.
27. I got the flu.
28. A flu wog struck.
29. The vaccine provides longer immunity against flu.
30. She was confined to bed with the flu.
31. He's recovering from an attack of flu.
32. A dose of flu kept me off work.
33. She's got flu.
34. I spent a week in bed with flu.
35. The soldiers were diagnosed as having flu.
36. One of the office girls was down with the flu.
37. I'm glad that you're over the flu.
38. The whole family has the flu.
39. We all had the flu last week ─ it wasn't very nice.
40. Anyone who wants to avoid the flu should consider getting a vaccination.
41. Ten new cases of bird flu were reported yesterday.
42. They're both in bed with flu.
43. A flu epidemic is sweeping through Moscow.
44. There are many different strains of flu virus.
45. Staff shortages were worsened by the flu epidemic.
46. Withdrawal from heroin is actually like a severe attack of gastric flu.