MOLEST in a Sentence

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13 example sentences for MOLEST, such as:

1. The two dogs that molest the sheep will be killed.
2. But we held our own without any appearance of molestation.
3. The bigger children in the neighborhood molested the younger ones.
4. Any case of sexual molestation of a child should be reported to the police.
5. The girl had been molested frequently by her stepfather from the age of eight.

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 Meanings and Examples of MOLEST
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
molest
 v.  trouble; disturb; render uneasy; interfere with; vex
Classic Sentence:
1  Yet when Jonah fairly takes out his purse, prudent suspicions still molest the Captain.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 9. The Sermon.
2  He always kept his distance and did not molest me in any way, but still it certainly was very odd.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IV. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SOLITARY CYCLIST
3  But we held our own without any appearance of molestation.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter LIV
4  The savages now fell back, and seemed content to let their enemies advance without further molestation.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 17
5  There is some deep intrigue going on round that little woman, and it is our duty to see that no one molests her upon that last journey.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IV. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SOLITARY CYCLIST
6  The ruffian Woodley was a very different person, but, except on one occasion, he had not molested our client, and now he visited the house of Carruthers without intruding upon her presence.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IV. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SOLITARY CYCLIST
7  It has always been at night-time that I have been molested or threatened, or in some way in danger or in fear.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
8  He first implored her to forgive him and Sonya and consent to their marriage, then he threatened that if she molested Sonya he would at once marry her secretly.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER XIII
Example Sentence:
1  The two dogs that molest the sheep will be killed.
2  Any case of sexual molestation of a child should be reported to the police.
3  The girl had been molested frequently by her stepfather from the age of eight.
4  The bigger children in the neighborhood molested the younger ones.
5  In his last two years as pope, Benedict XVI defrocked nearly 400 priests for raping and molesting children, more than twice as many as the two years that preceded a 2010 explosion of sex abuse cases in Europe and beyond