Sentence examples for plague of rats from inspiring English sources

A plague of rats has driven a family from their home in Belfast.

Lizarraga: We know that in 1578 there was a plague of rats - although we don't know in detail what kind of epidemics this caused.

The New Yorker, October 26, 1929 P. 21 Plague of rats on Riverside Drive with headquarters at 79th St. S.O.S. for a a pied piper.

By James Thurber The New Yorker, October 26, 1929 P. 21 Plague of rats on Riverside Drive with headquarters at 79th St. S.O.S. for a a pied piper.

The year after they were hit by heavy floods, which at least helped wash some of the salt out of the soil; then there was a plague of rats, because so many of their natural predators had been killed by the cyclone.

A plague of rats is scuttling across London following a 40percentnt surge in numbers.

You will never take this beloved pocket-friendly pub chain away from me, plague of rat monsters!

Plagues of rats gorging on a rare crop of bamboo flowers are razing community plots and destroying any remaining semblance of food security.

At times she confuses, seeming to create bizarre worlds suffering plagues of rats and multiple baby-kidnappings, only to reveal by the end of the story that the unreality is in the head of the narrator; the shock of the realisation adds - tenfold - to the emotions.

Thanks to an infestation of rats and the fleas they carry, the bubonic plague descends upon the city in the spring and intensifies during the hot summer.

The parlous state of the Palace of Westminster was laid bare in an unprecedented warts-and-all BBC documentary earlier this year, revealing leaking roofs, crumbling walls and plagues of mice, rats, moths and pigeons.