Sentence examples for a pestilence from inspiring English sources

Not a pestilence, Jelena, you mean a pest.

Shortly afterward Suppiluliumas himself died of a pestilence.

Ramon, you are a pestilence, you know that?

'A Pestilence of Petulance' is what I'm tempted to call it but probably shouldn't".

It is a pestilence changing their online experience, and decidedly not for the better.

A concentrated influx of tourists can be a welcome boon to an economy, or it can be a pestilence.

In New Orleans, a pestilence-ridden 18th-century outpost that defied the odds to become party heaven, it's accepted that every 10 minutes there's fresh cause to frolic.

Simone de Beauvoir especially disapproved strongly of Camus's use of a natural pestilence as a symbol for (she thought) fascism - it relieves men of their political responsibilities, she insisted, and runs away from history and real political problems.

'Klaus was one of the greatest actors of the century, but he was also a monster and a great pestilence.

The mad cow disease fiasco was less like a brutal pestilence on poor wee cows than a metaphor for that flashpoint when ropey, on-the-cheap, pretty stomach-turning policy decisions come home to roost and send everyone bonkers.

In 1855, Holmes chose to republish the essay in the form of a pamphlet under the new title Puerperal Fever as a Private Pestilence.