Pest

//pɛst//

"Pest" in a Sentence (12 examples)

Get off me you little pest!

He's the pest that, on last month's class-help day, escaped leaving me with all the work.

Dammit, that pest Nagisa, she really went and snitched on me to the teachers.

Don't be a pest!

Events such as droughts, floods, wildfires, and pest outbreaks associated with climate change (for example, bark beetles in the West) are already disrupting ecosystems.

Sami is a little pest.

This farmer relies on beneficial insects for pest control.

Stop being such a pest!

Heavenly ire / ne'er sent a pest more loathsome; ne'er were seen / worse plagues to issue from the Stygian mire.

Yields of major U.S. crops (such as corn, soybeans, wheat, rice, sorghum, and cotton) are expected to decline over this century as a consequence of increases in temperatures and possibly changes in water availability and disease and pest outbreaks.

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From the perspective of traditional Chinese culture, pests and famines are reflections of the current administration’s lack of moral values and deviation from divine will. The head of the administration (the emperor in the past) would then issue an edict to sincerely repent and correct his wrongdoings.

On a drizzly mid-January evening, I stood at the arches of the wall of Buda Castle, overlooking the Danube and the 19th-century Chain Bridge that links Buda with Pest.

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