These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'pestilence.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. pes files, and then, click OK in the dialog box. Īndrew Stuttaford, National Review, 24 Apr. Lila Thulin, Smithsonian Magazine, More than sovereign debt crisis, another run, another pandemic, war, revolution, pestilence, crop failure, another Great Depression, civil unrest, cyberattack. New York Times, 10 July 2021 And then, when the pestilence abated, all who survived gave themselves over to pleasures: monks, priests, nuns, and lay men and women all enjoyed themselves, and none worries about spending and gambling. 2021 Along with pestilence and plague have come cascading natural disasters, some of them very likely directly caused by climate change, some of them a preview of our near future on a planet warming faster than even pessimistic scientists predicted.ī, 22 July 2021 There was a crown of mirrored shards that summoned a supernatural pestilence. 2021 The book consisted of 100 comedic stories told by 10 fictional young friends-seven women and three men-quarantining together at a country estate to avoid the pestilence.Īrthur C. 2021 John and Mary Shakespeare have already lost two children to previous outbreaks- but miraculously this new pestilence does not take their newborn baby, William. 2020 The world is beset by fire, flood, famine and pestilence (pandemic) at unprecedented levels.Īlison Escalante, Forbes, 1 Oct. Spencer Strub, The New York Review of Books, 25 Mar. Recent Examples on the Web Monastic chroniclers recorded the pestilence as just one aspect of a general calamity in the 1340s, heralded by earthquakes and an unusually warm winter, accompanied by war and famine.
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