Sentence examples for be infested with from inspiring English sources

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be infested with

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To inhabit a place in unpleasantly large numbers

  • Insects are infesting my basement!

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Even last October, a few months after Farage had confirmed he would stand, a portrait of Thanet in the London Review of Books found Ramsgate to be "infested with journalists", which is the absolute worst type of infestation (infestations of MPs being largely confined to a couple of central London buildings for most of the year).

The trouble with a tourist mecca is that it tends to be infested with tourists.

In other words, the bridge's approaches will be infested with advertising and selling.

"But the worst thing was that the building turned out to be infested with bedbugs.

The waters around the islands are believed to be infested with man-eating sharks.

Worse, the beetle was found to be infested with a second serious pest: the pinewood nematode worm.

They got pre-approved for a mortgage and even bid on a place that, upon inspection, turned out to be infested with termites.

Mangosteens can be infested with the dread insect, and until recently, no safe way to assure "disinfestation," as the bureaucrats call it, had been found.

She adds that they carry no rabies, and "these ones are probably too young to be infested with fleas and ticks".

The Library turns out to be infested with carnivorous aliens and is controlled by the imagination of a young girl on Earth who thinks she's watching television.

In fact, in the past, shipments of Norwegian whale meat have been found to be infested with bacteria and also to contain potentially dangerous levels of mercury.

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