Sentence examples for the pestilence from inspiring English sources
noun
Any epidemic disease that is highly contagious, infectious, virulent and devastating.
There's the pestilence thing.
"The pestilence was immense — insufferable".
"The pestilence was immense insufferable".
They advance against that standard, rather than the pestilence, beggary and injustice of serfdom.
"Once the pestilence sets in, it doesn't give up," he said.
Now the pestilence had broken out on a real city street.
This show is trying to be an urban "Billy the Exterminator" (the best of the pestilence-and-plague series, on A&E), but Billy Bretherton, that show's star, is based in Louisiana and so encounters all manner of reptiles, insects and woodland creatures.
The pestilences and plagues of the 14th century had bred an inordinate fear of death, which led to the exploitation of simple people by a church that was, in effect, offering salvation for sale.
Local advocates contend that the plan will unleash the pestilences of gridlock, smog and overcrowding throughout the Kitchen, as some call the neighborhood, and not just down in the southern province of TunJav (the Lincoln Tunnel to the Javits Center).
Medieval folk traditions enumerate the pestilences and misfortunes which befell Lalli after his slaying of the bishop.
"It is always very exciting when we can find out the actual cause of the pestilences of the past," said researcher Barbara Bramanti, an archaeogeneticist at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany.
