INFEST in a Sentence

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13 example sentences for INFEST, such as:

1. The kitchen was infested with ants.
2. The back yard was infested by rats.
3. The road further south was infested with bandits.
4. Injun Joe infested all his dreams, and always with doom in his eye.
5. The Kudzu plant does infest much of the South and is spreading to the North.

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 Meanings and Examples of INFEST
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infest
 v.  overrun; invade in great numbers; occupy in large numbers or live on a host
Classic Sentence:
1  Certainly Will was no dirtier, no more hairy, no more lice infested than many fine gentlemen who came to Tara.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
2  Doubtless all small towns, in all countries, in all ages, Carol admitted, have a tendency to be not only dull but mean, bitter, infested with curiosity.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
3  The cannons first of all laid flat about six thousand men on each side; the muskets swept away from this best of worlds nine or ten thousand ruffians who infested its surface.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In III
4  After the destruction of the band of Gaspard Bes, who had infested the gorges of Ollioules, one of his lieutenants, Cravatte, took refuge in the mountains.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII—CRAVATTE
5  Injun Joe infested all his dreams, and always with doom in his eye.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
6  He carried his fat paunch with ostentation on his short legs, and during the time his gang infested the station spoke to no one but his nephew.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In I
7  A beard and mustache covered the lower part of his face, and a tangle of hair, infested with lice, curled round his head like a cap.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER XI
Example Sentence:
1  The Kudzu plant does infest much of the South and is spreading to the North.
2  The back yard was infested by rats.
3  The kitchen was infested with ants.
4  The road further south was infested with bandits.
5  Well-to-do people praise Prince Muhammad for ridding Awamiyah of a slum infested by gun-toting criminals, which appealed to landless peasants in Eastern Province.
6  The fires have taken hold because of drought and an infestation of bark beetle, which has left millions of dead trees.