pestilence
Example Sentences
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We can expect economic upheaval, famine and pestilence.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 24, 2026
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 • Jan. 23, 2026
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 • Jul. 16, 2024
Tuberculosis has carried off many of their neighbors, and the pestilence has provoked a range of superstitious remedies among the villagers.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 13, 2023
“She is fevered. She has caught some pestilence from the land of rats.”
From "Gregor the Overlander" by Suzanne Collins
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
