Sample Sentences forpestilence (editor-reviewed)
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The Black Death was a pestilence that killed an estimated 30% of the European population in the 14th century.pestilence = widespread disease
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Racism is a pestilence that undermines many nations.pestilence = severely harmful influence that is hard to get rid of
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The plague was a terrible pestilence that killed millions of people.pestilence = widespread disease
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Miss Maudie's face likened such an occurrence unto an Old Testament pestilence. (source)pestilence = plague or widespread disease
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He sent the pestilence among them That did lay schemes against us. (source)pestilence = disease
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Pestilence was known to have been foreboded by a shower of crimson light. (source)Pestilence = highly infectious disease
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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
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In the meantime, fate visited a plague on his subjects and tortured them with great pestilences.† (source)
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There is a great debate about this pestilence. (source)pestilence = severe widespread disease
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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)
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A pestilence of rain we received, the likes of which we had never seen or dreamed about in Georgia.† (source)
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Such penances had been sent before: the expulsion from Eden, the Flood, pestilences, the destruction of the Cities of the Plain, the Captivity.† (source)
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Not so much at the nursery rhyme, a phantom song about pestilence and death that had regained popularity in the past decade.† (source)
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For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.† (source)
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That first generation of gods could be a stuffy bunch (I'm looking at you, Hera, Hades, Dad), but Demeter had always been a kind and loving presence—except when she was destroying mankind through pestilence and famine, but everyone has their bad days.† (source)
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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)
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