Explore Infest through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like occupy or overrun. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Infest in a sentence
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Infest meaning
- To inhabit a place in unpleasantly large numbers; to plague, harass.
- To invade a host plant or animal.
Using Infest
- The main meaning on this page is: To inhabit a place in unpleasantly large numbers; to plague, harass. | To invade a host plant or animal.
- Useful related words include: occupy, overrun, invade, inhabit.
- In the example corpus, infest often appears in combinations such as: infest the, that infest, can infest.
Context around Infest
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 11 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 13 statements, 1 questions, 2 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Infest
- In this selection, "infest" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 21.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, commonly, criminally, virus, coyotes, homes and city stand out and add context to how "infest" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and criminally infest city centers and chlamydia that infest every shit. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "infest" sits close to words such as aav, abdicating and abductor, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with infest
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Rats infest the streets! (4 words)
Will the virus infest the US military to a point where they are all under quarantine? (16 words)
For example: *Adults of Diphyllobothrium infest fish, and the juveniles use copepod crustaceans as intermediate hosts. (16 words)
Keith Altman, Beaverton catch your drift—the drift of crabs and chlamydia that infest every shit-stained inch of the Motel 6 sheets you’ll be grunting in all night! (30 words)
Though blister rust is not in itself the cause of increased mortality, its weakening effect on trees allows native pine beetles to more easily infest the trees, increasing mortality. (29 words)
Being too dishonest to tell the truth, the “journalists” who infest the airwaves and the editorial offices of the big dailies have been reporting… well… fake news. (27 words)
Will the virus infest the US military to a point where they are all under quarantine? (16 words)
Rats infest the streets! (4 words)
Keith Altman, Beaverton catch your drift—the drift of crabs and chlamydia that infest every shit-stained inch of the Motel 6 sheets you’ll be grunting in all night! (30 words)
Example sentences (16)
According to Weardale Vets in County Durham: "Fleas are small parasites that commonly infest homes, feeding on both pets and humans.
Eventually, doctors confirmed that the man had developed an infection from a species of parasitic roundworms that can infest many different animals, humans and bears included.
TdA has taken advantage of the Biden Administration's open-border policies to illegally enter the country and criminally infest city centers across the country.
The Cleveland Indians’ social media team took the opportunity on Tuesday to remind the Yankees of the bugs that can infest Progressive Field.
To him, Mali government must not condone external influences that infest the Malian space with debauchery - especially sexual immorality.
Will the virus infest the US military to a point where they are all under quarantine?
Rats infest the streets!
There is a glamorous yet feisty television reporter Ritu Randhawa (Kriti Sanon), who casually reports on the dreadful trigger-happy goons who infest Ferozepur.
Being too dishonest to tell the truth, the “journalists” who infest the airwaves and the editorial offices of the big dailies have been reporting… well… fake news.
Keith Altman, Beaverton catch your drift—the drift of crabs and chlamydia that infest every shit-stained inch of the Motel 6 sheets you’ll be grunting in all night!
The last two questions posed by Stavans are especially important now; the verb “infest” is, indeed, to borrow a bit from Stavans, language at its clearest.
These snails are tiny, mite-like creatures that infest entire sections of rivers, and can be dangerous to both fish and humans.
For example: *Adults of Diphyllobothrium infest fish, and the juveniles use copepod crustaceans as intermediate hosts.
Hookworms of the genus Ancylostoma infest coyotes throughout their range, being particularly prevalent in humid areas.
The most common species to infest coyotes is Taenia pisiformis and T. crassiceps, which uses cottontail rabbits as intermediate hosts.
Though blister rust is not in itself the cause of increased mortality, its weakening effect on trees allows native pine beetles to more easily infest the trees, increasing mortality.
Common combinations with infest
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: