pestilence

Example Sentences

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We can expect economic upheaval, famine and pestilence.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 24, 2026

There’s anguish in his eyes, and when Del Toro shows us the world through his perspective, humanity itself appears anti-life, a pestilence that destroys without hesitation.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 16, 2025

He is the master of pestilence and disease; famine.

From Salon • Sep. 19, 2025

Zumba’s livelihood would then take another hit: a 2013 a pestilence decimated his small cacao plantation and to this day he doesn’t have the $1,500 necessary to replant.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 22, 2022

There was word that the pestilence crawled towards the city from the north shore, and that soon, in the alleys, we should be dying of it.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson