germs

Example Sentences

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Germs can live for hours outside the body on surfaces.

From BBC • Jan. 10, 2023

Germs can spread in the fluids, and in large crowds of birds all tweeting at top volume.

From Slate • Dec. 6, 2022

Germs are thought to rarely seep through gowns and sicken the wearer, but with gowns used constantly in hospitals every day, even a small gap in protection could be magnified millions of times over.

From Scientific American • Jul. 5, 2022

Germs might be hard to number, but they are, at least in theory, countable.

From Washington Post • Dec. 31, 2021

My minimal coverage of Japan in previous editions of Guns, Germs, and Steel constituted the most important geographic lacuna of my book.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond