pestilential

Example Sentences

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A garden pond can be either a pestilential mess or the beating heart of a landscape, depending on how well it is designed, engineered and maintained.

From Washington Post

At one point, a big black fly disconcertingly lit on Mr. Pence’s white shock of hair, a pestilential symbol that proved the writers of our reality can be pretty heavy-handed with the metaphors.

From New York Times

But what if there is scant succor to be had, and our true natures are not noble but necrotic, pestilential?

From The New Yorker

Jefferson viewed “great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health, and the liberties of man.”

From Washington Post

Even the by-products made from it -- plastic for example -- are a pestilential presence.

From New York Times