How do you use Pestilences in a sentence? See 5 example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.
Pestilences meaning
plural of pestilence
Using Pestilences
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of pestilence
- In the example corpus, pestilences often appears in combinations such as: and pestilences, pestilences and.
Context around Pestilences
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 1 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 5 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Pestilences
- In this selection, "pestilences" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 26.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, biblical, famines and water stand out and add context to how "pestilences" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include diseases and pestilences and knows that pestilences have a. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "pestilences" sits close to words such as aaas, aacc and aacs, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with pestilences
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Matthew gives seven major trends: false christs, wars, ethnic conflict, economic warfare, famines, pestilences and earthquakes. (16 words)
According to the earliest biographer of St. Francis, the hay used by St. Francis “miraculously” acquired the power to cure local cattle diseases and pestilences. (25 words)
Like the biblical pestilences—water turning to blood, locusts and hail, darkness and the killing of firstborn children—that ran through Ramses' Egypt, proselytize at 191 Toole. (27 words)
After a short communal phase and a series of pestilences and earthquakes, the city in the 15th century became an Aragonese possession, and was given in fief to the barons of the Tramontano family. (34 words)
Everybody knows that pestilences have a way of recurring in the world; yet somehow we find it hard to believe in ones that crash down on our heads from a blue sky. (32 words)
Like the biblical pestilences—water turning to blood, locusts and hail, darkness and the killing of firstborn children—that ran through Ramses' Egypt, proselytize at 191 Toole. (27 words)
Example sentences (5)
Everybody knows that pestilences have a way of recurring in the world; yet somehow we find it hard to believe in ones that crash down on our heads from a blue sky.
Like the biblical pestilences—water turning to blood, locusts and hail, darkness and the killing of firstborn children—that ran through Ramses' Egypt, proselytize at 191 Toole.
According to the earliest biographer of St. Francis, the hay used by St. Francis “miraculously” acquired the power to cure local cattle diseases and pestilences.
Matthew gives seven major trends: false christs, wars, ethnic conflict, economic warfare, famines, pestilences and earthquakes.
After a short communal phase and a series of pestilences and earthquakes, the city in the 15th century became an Aragonese possession, and was given in fief to the barons of the Tramontano family.
Common combinations with pestilences
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: