'epidemic' in a sentence
Learn how to use 'epidemic' with 6 example sentences.
- epidemic adjective
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: (especially of medicine) of disease or anything resembling a disease; attacking or affecting many individuals in a community or a population simultaneously
- epidemic noun
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: a widespread outbreak of an infectious disease; many people are infected at the same time
The epidemic is spreading quickly.
His prompt action prevented an epidemic.
Individualism is the 21st century's epidemic.
Obesity is a national epidemic.
The epidemic didn't reach our area.
America is in the midst of a drug overdose epidemic.