pestilence

Example Sentences

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We can expect economic upheaval, famine and pestilence.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 24, 2026

He is the master of pestilence and disease; famine.

From Salon • Sep. 19, 2025

From the Middle Ages on, Paris’ early underground waste channels were a wellspring of public fascination — and a source of pestilence, criminality and existential dread.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 16, 2024

Tuberculosis has carried off many of their neighbors, and the pestilence has provoked a range of superstitious remedies among the villagers.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 13, 2023

He told them that they could not hold out against both the pestilence and the Trojans, and that they must either find a way to appease Apollo or else sail home.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton