Sentence examples for plague wiped from inspiring English sources

Burrowing animals influence and are influenced by microbes: sylvatic plague wiped out large populations of prairie dogs, earthworms cause major changes in soil microflora, pocket gophers and harvester ants cause changes in mycorrhizal communities, which in turn impact plant communities.

Residents say coyotes began bringing migrants to the isolated coves around Pedernales about five years ago, after a plague wiped out a promising shrimp industry.

But it has also been difficult to find solid young choreographers, she said, because the AIDS plague wiped out so many of the artists who would have been their mentors.

In 2005, one of the warmest years on record in South Dakota, plague wiped out hundreds, perhaps thousands, of acres of black-tailed prairie dogs 38 miles south of here on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, where there are no ferrets.

In some areas plague wiped out entire colonies of prairie dogs.

People didn't want to deal with a movie about a plague wiping out mankind.

But the often less-than-chipper coach was upbeat on the eve of his homecoming, joking about bubonic plague wiping out various players on his team and giving a deadpan response when asked if he had anywhere special to go this weekend in Eugene.

As for his looks, the Host notes a piece by two behavioral psychologists in the New York Times arguing that the reason people often vote for attractive candidates (JFK, Reagan, Palin...) was because good looks correlated with good health in ancient societies when plagues wiped out populations.

The spectre of a benighted world where humankind again falls prey to bacterial plagues, wiping out the frail and the young, has been hanging over us for many years now.

Based on the acclaimed comic series from Brian K. Vaughan and artist Pia Guerra, the show — true to its title — follows the last surviving human with a Y chromosome (and his monkey) after a plague wipes out all men from the planet.

Personally, I think that maybe, if a plague wipes out every single person on earth except for Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, there might be, say, a five percent chance they will run on the same ticket, if by "run on the same ticket" we mean "live on the same planet".