pestilencein a sentence
-
•
The Black Death was a pestilence that killed an estimated 30% of the European population in the 14th century.pestilence = widespread disease
-
•
Racism is a pestilence that undermines many nations.pestilence = severely harmful influence that is hard to get rid of
-
•
The plague was a terrible pestilence that killed millions of people.pestilence = widespread disease
Show 3 more sentences
-
•
The pestilence boils within her blood and must be drained. (source)pestilence = disease
-
•
Miss Maudie's face likened such an occurrence unto an Old Testament pestilence. (source)pestilence = plague or widespread disease
-
•
He sent the pestilence among them That did lay schemes against us. (source)pestilence = disease
▲ show less (of above)
Show 10 more with 2 word variations
-
•
What pestilence or war or evil deed of the Enemy had so blasted all that region even Aragorn could not tell. (source)pestilence = widespread evil influence
-
•
And still Eve did not repent, nor all the daughters of Eve, and upon Eve did the Crafty Serpent found a kingdom of whoredoms and pestilences.† (source)
-
•
Pestilence was known to have been foreboded by a shower of crimson light. (source)Pestilence = highly infectious disease
-
•
In the meantime, fate visited a plague on his subjects and tortured them with great pestilences.† (source)
-
•
War, pestilence, murder, any kind of ordeal or violence, that's what they respect.† (source)
-
•
Such penances had been sent before: the expulsion from Eden, the Flood, pestilences, the destruction of the Cities of the Plain, the Captivity.† (source)
-
•
The usual—plague, pestilence, an armed standoff, and the decay of Western civilization, but nothing I can't handle.† (source)
-
•
For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.† (source)
-
•
Not so much at the nursery rhyme, a phantom song about pestilence and death that had regained popularity in the past decade.† (source)
-
•
The hollow seemed a nursery of pestilences small and great, in the immediate neighbourhood of comfort and health, and Bathsheba arose with a tremor at the thought of having passed the night on the brink of so dismal a place.† (source)
▲ show less (of above)