Examples of 'pestilence' in a sentence

Meaning of "pestilence"

pestilence (noun) - a severe infectious disease that spreads rapidly and causes widespread harm, typically accompanied by high fever and death. It is often used in a biblical or historical context to describe a deadly epidemic
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  • Any epidemic disease that is highly contagious, infectious, virulent and devastating.
  • Anything harmful to morals or public order.
  • The personification of pestilence, often depicted riding a white horse.

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The people are dying of pestilence and starvation.
Nor the pestilence that walketh in darkness.
Unless he wants to die of the pestilence himself.
The pestilence over all the land.
This is worse than pestilence and famine.
The pestilence has taken your mind.
Greater evil than pestilence and famine.
The pestilence that prowls in the darkness.
Tis worse than pestilence and famine.
The pestilence that stalks in the darkness.
She survived the pestilence with resilience.
Pestilence should be the easiest to see coming.
It crept like a pestilence throughout the ship.
Pestilence and drought ravaged the land.
And we can have pestilence and starvation.

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Pestilence was not a joke but a real fear.
No disease or pestilence ever roamed the land.
The horseman on the pale horse is pestilence.
For the pestilence that waketh in darkness.
I was the one who spread the pestilence.
Or the pestilence that starts the darkness.
The very air will be pestilence to mankind.
The pestilence soon reached his friends.
They say it is a sanctuary from the pestilence.
Webster defines pestilence as a serious infectious disease.
We do not live amongst the human pestilence.
From all pestilence of error and corruption.
None may enter this house of pestilence.
Pain and pestilence infesting every land.
God help me and rid me of this pestilence.
A pestilence here and a plague there.
My young and rather stylish rider of pestilence.
A strange pestilence has laid me low.
Give generously or you will be visited by pestilence.
If anyone can deliver pestilence and disease.
People are dying in thousands of hunger and pestilence.
The pestilence in my day was much worse than it is now.
The university is ruined and enfeebled by pestilence.
Pestilence rides the black horse.
They also predicted famine and pestilence.
There is a pestilence upon this land.
He is also called upon during times of pestilence.
The vampire is a pestilence that grows.
Seventy thousand of his men died of a pestilence.
Chaos brings the pestilence of daemons.
Countless people are suffering because of this pestilence.
A pestilence on him for a mad rogue.
Famine followed the war and pestilence.
No pestilence has ever been so fatal or so hideous.
They send foul weather and pestilence.

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