pestilent

Example Sentences

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A swath of the Santa Clarita Valley is under a first-of-its-kind quarantine after the invasive and pestilent tau fruit fly was found in the area, officials announced this week.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 28, 2023

Acland saw polluted water as a potential contributor to pestilent air, not as a medium for the spread of an invisible agent of disease.

From Scientific American • Jan. 29, 2019

Still, “The Good Mothers” is casting a wider net, indicting an entire pestilent culture.

From Washington Post • Jul. 5, 2018

Judge Tingling lays all this out but then weirdly claims that the intent of the legislature, in amending the charter, was to provide “regulations that prevent and protect against communicable, infectious, and pestilent diseases.”

From Slate • Mar. 13, 2013

More beautiful than the sight of a spring field after three years of living in that pestilent cesspit of a city.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss