PESTILENCE in a Sentence
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10 example sentences for PESTILENCE, such as:
1. There escaped from Eustacia one of those shivering sighs which used to shake her like a pestilent blast.
2. A terrible pestilence breaking out in Rome seemed to the Equians and Volscians to offer a fit opportunity for crushing her.
3. A pestilent conceit, which so often will insist upon obtruding even when beholding the mightiest royal beadle on his throne.
2. A terrible pestilence breaking out in Rome seemed to the Equians and Volscians to offer a fit opportunity for crushing her.
3. A pestilent conceit, which so often will insist upon obtruding even when beholding the mightiest royal beadle on his throne.
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Meanings and Examples of PESTILENCE
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pestilence
n. a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal
n. a pernicious and malign influence that is hard to get rid of
Classic Sentence:
1 A terrible pestilence breaking out in Rome seemed to the Equians and Volscians to offer a fit opportunity for crushing her.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXXVIII.
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXXVIII.
2 The Romans, who were sorely afflicted by the pestilence, answered that they must look to their own defence, and with their own forces, since Rome was in no position to succour them.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXXVIII.
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXXVIII.
3 It is a very justifiable cause of a war, to invade a country after the people have been wasted by famine, destroyed by pestilence, or embroiled by factions among themselves.
4 None so self-devoted as Hester when pestilence stalked through the town.
5 It was a formidable campaign; a nocturnal battle against pestilence and suffocation.
6 Sea fowls are pecking at the small crabs, shell-fish, and other sea candies and maccaroni, which the Right Whale sometimes carries on his pestilent back.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 56. Of the Less Erroneous Pictures of Whales, and...
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 56. Of the Less Erroneous Pictures of Whales, and...
7 A pestilent conceit, which so often will insist upon obtruding even when beholding the mightiest royal beadle on his throne.
8 There escaped from Eustacia one of those shivering sighs which used to shake her like a pestilent blast.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: 1 "Wherefore Is Light Given to Him That Is in Misery"
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: 1 "Wherefore Is Light Given to Him That Is in Misery"
9 This the pestilent goddess spreads abroad in the mouths of men, and bends her course right on to King Iarbas, and with her words fires his spirit and swells his wrath.
Example Sentence:
1 That forest-dell, where Lowood lay, was the cradle of fog and fog-bred pestilence.