contracted
Example Sentences
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On Friday, the Orange County Health Care Agency announced on Friday that a toddler had contracted measles, the second confirmed case in the region.
From Los Angeles Times
But she had died, nine years ago, and his father had contracted, as if a weight had settled on him and concertinaed him downward and inward.
From Literature
He contracted meningitis as a youth and still suffers from convulsions.
From Los Angeles Times
The state’s exports to the U.S. contracted by 6% annually over the past two years.
In a move that foreshadowed Parton’s future as a feminist firebrand of her time, she contracted a lawyer and found a room for her daughters and herself in the Marlboro Hotel in Boston.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
