infest

Example Sentences

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The owner of the veterinary clinic arrived at work at 6:30 a.m. and found the dog, which was “extremely malnourished,” infested with fleas and missing a tooth, Spitzer said.

From Los Angeles Times

“Not many of you were here when video poker was infested in South Carolina,” House Majority Leader Davey Hiott said, “We saw the terrible, terrible blight it put on this state.”

From Washington Times

For a few years, they lived in a home that was infested with mold, which aggravated his brother’s asthma and forced them to leave.

From Seattle Times

The world was horrified in 2017 when a Northern defector was found to be infested with intestinal worms.

From Washington Times

Such a passive word, “deindustrialization” — leaving the impression that it just happened somehow, as if the country got deindustrialization the way a forest gets infested by bark beetles.

From New York Times