How to Use pestilence in a Sentence

pestilence

noun

• After years of war and pestilence, few people remained in the city.
• The end may be near for the pestilence that has haunted the world this year.
  — Zeynep Tufekci, The Atlantic, 14 Nov. 2020
• There’s frost and heat, drought and rain, pestilence and fire raining down the sky.
  — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 20 May 2022
• This week’s first cause for alarm is pestilence, aka bugs.
  — Bonnie Blodgett, Twin Cities, 17 June 2017
• True-crime mania has spread like a pestilence, but this is the best the genre has to offer.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 2 May 2022
• Americans were ready to turn the page on war and pestilence and let loose in the roaring ’20s.
  — Patrick T. Brown, CNN, 9 Feb. 2023
• The Greek physician Hippocrates warned in the fifth century B.C. that bad air was the cause of pestilence.
  — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 22 Feb. 2021
• This ancient virus has been a pestilence on mankind for centuries.
  — Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 15 May 2013
• So when a pest or pestilence invades, at least some part of the wheat supply may survive.
  — Matt Simon, Wired, 17 Nov. 2020
• The swan-boys fly away while their sister, Eliza, is dispatched to a remote village away from the pestilence.
  — WSJ, 23 Mar. 2018
• Oedipus’ subjects come to the palace, imploring him to save the city, describing the scene of pestilence and panic, the screaming and the corpses in the street.
  — Elif Batuman, The New Yorker, 1 Sep. 2020
• Women were warned about this pestilence in ladies’ journals.
  — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 30 Mar. 2017
• Cell phones raise, hoping to capture a moment of pestilence.
  — Alex Prewitt, SI.com, 19 Apr. 2018
• The frightful pestilence now surrounds San Diego on all sides, and its appearance here seems to be but a question of time.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Jan. 2022
• This confirmed that the pestilence mentioned on the tombstones was indeed the plague, which is spread from rodents to humans via fleas.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN, 15 June 2022
• But there were other forces at work: war, fire, pestilence, and the cartographer’s pen.
  — Weston Williams, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 July 2017
• Sekhmet, in Egyptian mythology, was the goddess of war, of the hot desert sun, of chaos and pestilence and its opposite, healing.
  — Rob Haskell, Vogue, 15 Mar. 2022
• This is not to say that the pestilence lacks the Coens’ trademark comic ghastliness and smarty-pants zingers.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Oct. 2017
• Perfect weather for all manner of pestilence and blight.
  — Bonnie Blodgett, Twin Cities, 17 June 2017
• Gretel & Hansel stars Lillis and Sammy Leakey as siblings who leave home during a time of pestilence and famine.
  — Clark Collis, EW.com, 24 Jan. 2020
• They’re seen as signs of urban decay and carriers of pestilence.
  — Charlie Hamilton James, National Geographic, 17 June 2019
• Global trade and climate change are poised to make the spread and severity of arboreal plagues and pestilence worse.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 30 Aug. 2022
• When wages had grown in the past after periods of pestilence, population surged and wages fell again.
  — Phil Gramm and Mike Solon, WSJ, 23 Dec. 2020
• Like a perennial pestilence, a familiar set of naysayers emerge, looking to get their names in the headlines.
  — Al Saracevic, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 May 2018
• But only the most primitive imagined that the gods of the sun and goddesses of the harvest, or spirits of pestilence and storm, had any serious roles to play.
  — Ben Ehrenreich, The New Republic, 10 May 2023
• Plunder, plague, and pestilence come quickly to mind, starvation and death not far behind.
  — Sigrid MacRae, Harper's Magazine, 16 Mar. 2021
• The series of epidemics, including the one in 1545, are simply referred to as cocoliztli, the generic Aztec word for pestilence.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 16 Jan. 2018
• The hot seat will not go cold, in other words, just because of some pestilence hoax perpetrated by the left-wing, football-hating media and the one-world order.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 23 Sep. 2020
• Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio, who survived the era of pestilence, wrote in his book of tales, the Decameron.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2020
• His study came on the heels of another one published last November, which found that nearly a third of southern Sierra forests were killed by wildfires, drought and pestilence over the last decade.
  — Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 11 Nov 2024