pestilence

Example Sentences

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Those concepts interlace in his ossuary, enlivened when he plays his tenderly kept records, remnants of human joy all but lost to a Rage pestilence.

From Salon

Every time she opens her mouth I swear a swarm of horseflies and pestilence are released to consume the countryside.

From Salon

He is the master of pestilence and disease; famine.

From Salon

In dramatic lore they are known as famine, pestilence, destruction and death.

From Los Angeles Times

From the Middle Ages on, Paris’ early underground waste channels were a wellspring of public fascination — and a source of pestilence, criminality and existential dread.

From Los Angeles Times