germs
Example Sentences
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That it’s going to be awful, and hard, and I’ll probably get sick from all the germs crawling on those kids who don’t understand how to properly take care of their health.
From Literature
“A sanitizer. We use it to get rid of surface germs. It’s a clean lab, so we try to minimize contaminants.”
From Literature
Her history of Kleenex tissues is a tour de force: We learn that the Kimberly-Clark Corp., which owns Kleenex, played on the fear that reusable handkerchiefs were essentially wads of tuberculosis germs.
“It’s old and horrible and full of germs,” she said, and she told Louella, “You should be glad it’s lost. Howard will thank you someday.”
From Literature
The empire was beset in these decades by Germans as well as germs.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
