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.

Use 'flu' in a 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.