Examples of 'infest' in a sentence

Meaning of "infest"

infest (verb): To overrun or spread in large numbers, typically referring to pests or unwanted organisms invading a space. This phrase is often used in discussions about insects, rodents, or parasites taking over a living area or environment
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  • To inhabit a place in unpleasantly large numbers; to plague, harass.
  • To invade a host plant or animal.
  • Mischievous; hurtful; harassing.
  • Hostility.

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They infest you with their eggs.
This plague is going to infest the entire country.
They infest vegetation like apples or cherries.
Our fire shall infest their heavens.
They infest cattle like parasites and fight.
They could escape and infest my apartment.
If they infest me promise you will kill me.
You gave it permission to infest your lives.
Most pests infest due to an unclean environment.
You gave it permission to infest your life.
Let them infest this day of work.
Hordes of tourists that infest the place.
That infest every pore of this decaying city.
All these species can infest humans.
Mites also infest many crop plants.

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The contagion has mutated to infest plant life.
Pests infest all types of businesses.
A number of parasites can infest nest boxes.
They infest your house anytime.
Some species will infest furniture.
Lice infest hundreds of millions of people each year.
The bandits who infest this inn town.
They often leave webbing in the food they infest.
Bark beetles infest the trees here.
A variety of insects can occasionally infest the plants.
The parasites infest deep in the brain.
A condition in which tiny insects infest the skin.
Fire ants often infest electrical equipment.
Even one little fuzzy bunny can infest us all.
He was going to infest me with his magog eggs.
Herbicides are sprayed or dusted on weeds or on the soil they infest.
The humans infest the provinces.
Because quagga mussels infest.
They do not infest human beings.
Formosan termites are difficult to control once they infest a structure.
Insects rarely infest this species.
Go infest another house.
They can sometimes infest other body sites.
They infest new shoots and cones of their host plant.
The same demonic spirits infest them all.
That infest horses and cattle.
They do not generally infest structures.
Roaches can infest even the cleanest house or building.
It is carried by lice which infest hair and clothes.
Bugs that infest the human hair are known as lice.
Meaning they could escape and infest the newsroom.
They infest society.
They sting and bite and infest our food.
Viruses often infest prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells causing diseases.
Occasionally termites and locusts also infest maize fields.

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