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pestilential

How to use pestilential in a sentence

The graves of thousands of English soldiers had been dug in the pestilential morass of Dundalk.

Let the following incident witness his sagacity: Pestilential fevers periodically ravaged his native city.

None but Indians could live and labour and travel habitually, in such a pestilential atmosphere.

He died of a pestilential disorder, which, in the course of two days, had carried off nearly 400 men in his camp.

Like pestilential vapor, the infamy of universal reprobation hung over him.

It is the same disease, he says, whether from the swamps of Walcheren, or the pestilential shores of Africa.

And the worm which was beginning to fall asleep is roused again to pestilential fierceness.

I lie wakeful in the dark and try to reason out a logicalness or poetry in a thing so artfully pestilential.

This pestilential plague spot, into which it was hardly safe to venture, was done away with in the years 1890-95.

She grew sick and faint as the pestilential tale expanded, and horror was piled upon horror.

THIRTYHOWARD VINCENT O'BRIEN

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985