How to Use vermin in a Sentence

vermin

noun

• The room was crawling with roaches and other vermin.
• There were holes that allowed vermin and wasps to sneak through.
  — New York Times, 23 Mar. 2021
• Some are kept behind the kitchen door to deal with vermin around the farm and even for self-defense.
  — Richard Mann, Field & Stream, 9 Mar. 2021
• Rats and other vermin were feasting on the baked goods.
  — Jennie Rothenberg Gritz, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Feb. 2023
• Smail said the best way to combat vermin is to keep a place clean and sanitized.
  — Anna Bauman, SFChronicle.com, 1 Oct. 2019
• The spared vermin can then be deposited far from the dwelling to keep them from coming back.
  — Adam Hadhazy, Popular Mechanics, 9 Mar. 2021
• If the job of the Bat is to round up the rats, then the director needs to supply high-quality vermin.
  — The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2022
• My neighbor built a compost bin from old pallets and lined it with chicken wire to keep the scraps in and the vermin out.
  — Susan Brownstein, cleveland, 14 June 2022
• The king may still be breathing, but the vermin visual is a clear symbol of his decay.
  — Erica Gonzales, ELLE, 26 Sep. 2022
• Detainees find vermin such as cockroaches or body parts of rats in the food.
  — Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 9 May 2024
• While some people may see wolves as vermin, many more put a high value on wolves.
  — Ben Long, Outdoor Life, 6 Mar. 2020
• The homes were often filled with vermin, mold and even the very drug abuse that some tenants were seeking to escape.
  — Kim Barker, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2018
• Wild dogs—which kill livestock—were viewed as vermin, and were not on the list of animals to be conserved.
  — Saima Sidik, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Aug. 2021
• After all, New York City has fought the vermin to a stalemate for more than a century.
  — Jonathan Auerbach, Slate Magazine, 21 July 2017
• The elite didn’t want to connect their cesspools to the sewer pipes because that would likely bring the vermin and stink into their homes.
  — Lina Zeldovich, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Nov. 2021
• The streets are extended gutters and the gutters are full of blood and when the drains finally scab over, all the vermin will drown.
  — Maya Phillips, The New Yorker, 17 Dec. 2019
• People who live in cities are used to the company of furry vermin.
  — Alice Park, Time, 17 Apr. 2018
• The heat was so intense that [the 300-plus prisoners] were all naked, which also served the well to get rid of vermin, but the sick were eaten up alive.
  — Benedict Cosgrove, Smithsonian, 13 Mar. 2017
• Piles of garbage in nearby vacant lots draw vermin: mice, which are one of the worst asthma triggers, along with rats.
  — Rachel Bluth, baltimoresun.com, 8 Dec. 2017
• Council members talked publicly about the mold, vermin and trash in the housing units in August.
  — Ray Padilla, The Courier-Journal, 4 Feb. 2024
• But there's something even dreamier and more debonair about the vermin version of Sherlock.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 12 June 2024
• The basement walls are crumbling, Brown said, and her home is infested with vermin.
  — Gretchen Morgenson, NBC News, 5 July 2023
• Within a year, the camp was overcrowded and overrun by vermin.
  — Dawn Mitchell, The Indianapolis Star, 8 June 2020
• Better to have some vermin living in your neighborhood than to be one.
  — Osita Nwanevu, The New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2019
• The third, fourth and fifth visits on May 27, June 1 and June 3 fared no better, with dozens of vermin spotted on each occasion.
  — Phillip Valys, sun-sentinel.com, 7 June 2021
• Among them, trash heaps, subway vermin, tourists, and—above all—small living quarters.
  — Oliver Cano, ELLE Decor, 23 June 2023
• For example, in the 1500s in England, laws known as the vermin acts set bounties for killing many animals, not just rats and mice.
  — New York Times, 11 May 2021
• The scientists theorize that the poison paint was used to protect the books from insects and vermin.
  — Amanda Erickson, Washington Post, 10 July 2018
• While Scott hoped to move on from the viral vermin story, the entertainment team at Citi Field leaned into it.
  — Jerry Beach, Star Tribune, 8 May 2021
• Three years ago, my sister’s husband died suddenly, leaving her in a house that is infested with vermin and could be condemned.
  — Jeanne Phillips, The Mercury News, 6 July 2024

Last Updated: 24 Oct 2024