Wondering how to use Pestilence in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as plague or pest.
Pestilence meaning
- Any epidemic disease that is highly contagious, infectious, virulent and devastating.
- Anything harmful to morals or public order.
Using Pestilence
- The main meaning on this page is: Any epidemic disease that is highly contagious, infectious, virulent and devastating. | Anything harmful to morals or public order.
- Useful related words include: plague, pest, epidemic disease, pestis.
- In the example corpus, pestilence often appears in combinations such as: pestilence and, the pestilence, with pestilence.
Context around Pestilence
- Average sentence length in these examples: 18 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 10 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 18 statements, 1 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Pestilence
- In this selection, "pestilence" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 18 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, brought, plagues, battle, proves, scratched and went stand out and add context to how "pestilence" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include announce this pestilence proves we and are the pestilence. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "pestilence" sits close to words such as abstention, actuarial and admonition, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with pestilence
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Pestilence scratched the back of his head. (7 words)
We see Pestilence’s spirit go free. (7 words)
Today the non-Biblical word for pestilence is pandemic. (9 words)
While I concede it may alter the flight schedule of the local airlines and shrink the number of flights per day, I must hasten to add that in dealing with a pestilence of this magnitude, nothing should be left to chance. (41 words)
The whole feature is pretty ace on paper, and with each district having a meter that represents general pestilence and wellbeing, you’d best get to crafting cures and playing the good doctor if you want everyone to make it through. (41 words)
Have you considered this pandemic may be the same power that brought pestilence and plagues to Egypt as described in Exodus, the second book of the Bible? (27 words)
Have you considered this pandemic may be the same power that brought pestilence and plagues to Egypt as described in Exodus, the second book of the Bible? (27 words)
And may Xi Jinping be afflicted with a pestilence of bat-boils! (12 words)
Example sentences (20)
And may Xi Jinping be afflicted with a pestilence of bat-boils!
Gretel (Sophia Lillis) and her younger brother Hansel (Sammy Leakey) left home during a bad period when pestilence and famine ravaged the land.
Have you considered this pandemic may be the same power that brought pestilence and plagues to Egypt as described in Exodus, the second book of the Bible?
However, pestilence is not so conspicuous within Shakespeare’s works themselves – perhaps out of a desire to provide his audiences with light relief.
No surprise that the Jehovah’s Witnesses gleefully announce this pestilence proves we are living in the “final part of the last days”.
Pestilence scratched the back of his head.
Pestilence went for more pretzels and saw clumps of hair sticking to his hand.
The world's three leading religions have survived famines, plagues, pestilence, and wars.
Through seven years they battle pestilence, predation, hurricane-force winds, algal blooms and dying livestock.
Today the non-Biblical word for pestilence is pandemic.
We, whether we like it or not, are the pestilence.
While I concede it may alter the flight schedule of the local airlines and shrink the number of flights per day, I must hasten to add that in dealing with a pestilence of this magnitude, nothing should be left to chance.
She heads for Pestilence, who takes on the guise of James Hudson.
We see Pestilence’s spirit go free.
His flocks are taken by Bedouins, crops wiped out by pestilence.
It is a very bitter pill to swallow that hopelessness is stalking the land like a pestilence and life is increasingly becoming unbearable.
She said they seek to bring an end to the “pestilence” of such violence.
The album was recorded with longtime producer V. Santura (Triptykon, Pestilence) at Woodshed Studios in Landshut, Germany.
The whole feature is pretty ace on paper, and with each district having a meter that represents general pestilence and wellbeing, you’d best get to crafting cures and playing the good doctor if you want everyone to make it through.
Until recently I thought “manifestation” was a term reserved for pestilence, or those who believe in ghosts.
Common combinations with pestilence
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- pestilence and 13×
- the pestilence 5×
- with pestilence 3×
- pestilence of 3×
- for pestilence 3×
- by pestilence 3×
- pestilence is 2×
- this pestilence 2×
- pestilence or 2×
- from pestilence 2×