infest

Example Sentences

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The owner of the veterinary clinic arrived at work at 6:30 a.m. and found the dog, which was “extremely malnourished,” infested with fleas and missing a tooth, Spitzer said.

From Los Angeles Times

Toynbee documented their movement to suburbs, with the cities becoming predictably poorer, “infested with slums.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Isra says she and her siblings were sometimes sleeping four to a room and that the places they were housed in were often infested with rats.

From BBC

If that makes you a little sick, if the whole thing feels a little unclean, that’s only because the internet has become a nauseous, infested place.

From Salon

The findings revealed that infested homes contained high amounts of endotoxins, with female cockroaches producing roughly twice as much as males.

From Science Daily