Sentence examples for a pest of from inspiring English sources

"She made a pest of herself.

In making a pest of himself, he helped keep the field honest.

Holbrooke made a pest of himself, as he also did on the Hill".

The dog made quite a pest of himself but the young couple said nothing for fear of annoying their visitor.

Surely the problem should have been my ringing too often, whizzing back to the States too many times, making a pest of myself.

Then he gets drunk in a bar and makes a pest of himself by calling the girl's house in the middle of the night.

"Nam Dan" to cowpea aphid (Aphis craccivora Koch -a serious pest of leguminous crops.

In Brazil, Erinnyis ello ello (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae) is a major pest of cassava crops and a bottleneck for its production.

(Lepidoptera: Plutellidae), is a devastating pest of cruciferous crops, costing an estimated $4 5 billion per annum around the world [ 22].

Morgenthau wasn't a total waste of space; he made a genuine pest of himself trying to get his friend to notice the Nazi Holocaust.

Woolly apple aphid (WAA), Eriosoma lanigerum (Hausmann), is a worldwide pest of apple, Malus pumila Miller (Jaume et al. 2015), and a quarantine pest in China (Zhang and Luo 2002).