PESTILENTIAL in a Sentence

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He consigned them to red regions; he called upon the pestilential wrath of strange gods.

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 Meanings and Examples of PESTILENTIAL
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pestilential
 a.  tending to produce infectious disease; destructive
Classic Sentence:
1  He consigned them to red regions; he called upon the pestilential wrath of strange gods.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 23
2  At the present hour, the radiation of diseases from Paris extends to fifty leagues around the Louvre, taken as the hub of this pestilential wheel.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI—FUTURE PROGRESS
3  Here is shewn a ghastly pool, a breathing-hole of the grim lord of hell, and a vast chasm breaking into Acheron yawns with pestilential throat.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK SEVENTH
Example Sentence:
1  What was remarkable was that the Allies having spent nearly six years fighting to destroy this pestilential horror in the heart of Europe.