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• The garden snail, a blue-blooded land animal, is sometimes seen as food, sometimes as pest.From the entry blue-blooded
• Wooden structures in the tropics must be chemically treated to repel xylotomous pests.From the entry xylotomous
• My little brother is such a pest, I swear.From the entry swear
• We have just contracted new pest control services.From the entry contract
• I wish that pest would just take a hike.From the entry take a hike
• "We have done some targeted pest control, and it has made a huge difference.2025 May 28, Paul Clifton, “Project Brunel on the right line”, in RAIL, number 1036, page 28. From the entry infestation
• Since these pests are attracted to the smell of ripe fruit, harvest frequently.2015 July 15, “Green Fruit Beetle”, in The Daily Garden. From the entry green fruit beetle
• Chicken pest is endemic in the region and a scarcity of chickens is frequent.2013, Lianne Holten, Mothers, Medicine and Morality in Rural Mali, →ISBN. From the entry chicken pest
• Other species are recognized pests, and various buprestids attack either living or dead trees.2009, T. R. New, Beetles in Conservation, page 189. From the entry buprestid
• “These pests can be there at subdetection levels for years if not decades,” said Mr.2007 June 18, Jesse Mckinley, “Tiny but Hungry, Moth May Peril California Crops”, in New York Times. From the entry subdetection
• Usually petunias are quite pest free, but aphids are occasional problems.2002, Larry Hodgson, Annuals for Every Purpose, page 57. From the entry petunia
• The most dangerous pests that develop and feed in mid-field woodlots are aphids.2000, Józef Banaszak, Ecology of Forest Islands, Bydgoszcz University Press, →ISBN, page 291. From the entry spindle tree
• In some parts of the Northeast, woolly adelgid and aphids are serious pests.1998, Stephen W. Kress, Bird Gardens, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, page 35. From the entry woolly adelgid
• Use it with an antibug candle and it wards off pests while it lights your patio.1972, The Popular Science Monthly. From the entry antibug
• As a citrus pest, the citricola scale is at present limited to California.1948, Alfred M. Boyce, “Insects and Mites and Their Control”, in Leon Dexter Batchelor, Herbert John Webber, editors, The Citrus Industry…. From the entry citricola scale
• Lord, what a fiendly young urchin and revolting pest I must have been!1945, Jeffery Farnol, The Piping Times. From the entry back-rapper
• By caging chickens, farmers broke the cycle and had to busy themselves with feeding, cleaning and pest control activities.2018, Stomu Yamash’ta, Tadashi Yagi, Stephen Hill, The Kyoto Manifesto for Global Economics, →ISBN. From the entry cage
• The face fly is usually a pest of grazing cattle.2012, Rick Parker, Equine Science, 4th edition, page 396. From the entry face fly
• People took trollface and pasted it into other comics, whenever a character was either being a pest or generally annoying people.2012, Sean Rockey & Alexander Bevier, "Memes", The Current (Green River Community College), Volume 46, Issue 10, 7 May 2012, page 9. From the entry trollface
• They are vulnerable to some pest control poisons — Mr.2008 May 16, Ralph Blumenthal, “A Pest Without a Name, Becoming Known to Ever More”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on…. From the entry fipronil
• Phylloxerans (Phylloxeridae) are uncommon pests of shade trees, limited to certain leaf and petiole gall-forming species that attack Carya spp. (pecan).2008, “Shade Tree Arthropods and Their Management”, in John L. Capinera, editor, Encyclopedia of Entomology, volume 4, page 3363. From the entry phylloxeran
• So, although it is often asserted that monocultures lead to increased risks of disease and pest attack, the evidence is pauce.1996, Tony Whitten, Roehayat Emon Soeriaatmadja, Suraya A. Afiff, The Ecology of Java and Bali, Oxford: Oxford University Press, published…. From the entry pauce
• We can build robo-animals to dispose of any pest.1974 May, Isaac Asimov, “—That Thou Art Mindful of Him!”, in Edward L[ewis] Ferman, editor, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction…. From the entry robo-animal
• The tremendous achievements of the movement for eliminating the “four pests” and promoting hygiene are well known and universally acclaimed.1973 [1960 April 6], Chen-lin Tan, “Strive for the Fulfillment, Ahead of Schedule, of the National Programme for Agricultural…. From the entry Chishan
• Another highly successful species, which has become a serious pest of fruit, is the Mossie or Cape Sparrow.1969, J. M. Winterbottom, Cornelis Janse Uys, Some Birds of the Cape, page 93. From the entry mossie
• In spring the fields near the river are covered with beautiful mauve flowers, another pest, known as Patterson’s curse.1952, Glynde Nesta Griffiths, Some Southern Homes of New South Wales, page 20. From the entry Patterson's curse
• While the drouth is a most regrettable occurrence, the resultant scarcity of the pests is one compensation that enables Ste.1930 August 23, “Fewer Mosquitoes in Season of Drouth”, in Ste. Genevieve Herald, volume 49, number 23, Ste. Genevieve, Mo., →OCLC, front…. From the entry drouth
• As the summer progresses, we are faced with another insect pest worse than all the others combined, the bald-faced hornets and yellow-jackets.2020 July 30, Pat Neal, “Wildlife: A Buggy Time of Year”, in Forks Forum. From the entry waffle-stomp
• But it is particularly sensitive to temperature increases, which reduce its growth, flowering and fruiting and make it more susceptible to coffee pests.2015 May 1, Sam Jones, “Coffee catastrophe beckons as climate change threatens arabica plant”, in The Guardian. From the entry arabica
• Three species are rose pests: the rose slug (Endelomyia aethiops), the bristly rose slug (Cladius difformis), and the curled rose sawfly (Aallantus cinctus).2015, Peter Kukielski, Roses Without Chemicals: 150 Disease-Free Varieties That Will Change the Way You Grow Roses. From the entry rose slug
• Since a goshawk may occasionally take a chicken or the chicken pest wipe out an entire flock, keeping up chickens is risky business.2013, Brauns, Mru: Hill People on the Border of Bangladesh, →ISBN, page 132. From the entry chicken pest
• The cabbage head caterpillar Crocidolomia pavonana (Fabricius) (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) is an increasingly devastating pest on white cabbage (Brassica oleracea var. capitata) in Uganda.2013, Issues in Life Sciences, page 32. From the entry cabbage head
• The technique appeals to alternative builders because of its ability to be sculpted, its use of waste materials, and its pest resistant properties.2009, Marian Keeler, Bill Burke, Fundamentals of Integrated Design for Sustainable Building, →ISBN, page 304. From the entry cob
• A farmer tells me that moles can be beneficial because they eat a lot of wireworms and other pests, not just earthworms.2009 February 6, Veronica Heath, “Country diary”, in The Guardian. From the entry wireworm
• Species listed as possible pests or nonpests might qualify as temporary pest species during nuu khii outbreaks where these originate in forest habitats.2006, J. M. Schiller, Rice in Laos. From the entry nonpest
• But aleyrodid pests of agricultural crops are usually highly polyphagous, and a good portion of aleyrodids on palms come from their ranks.2001, F. W. Howard, Insects on Palms, page 167. From the entry aleyrodid
• So whether you are out conquering worlds or are just concerned about these tiny pests, make sure you're prepared with a pair of germ-spotting microgoggles.2001, Invader Zim, "Germs" (season 1, episode 4a). From the entry microgoggles
• Several species of green lacewings are native to this region, all general predators that feed on a wide variety of insect pests.1998, Whitney Cranshaw, Pests of the West: Prevention and Control for Today's Garden and Small Farm, page 24. From the entry green lacewing
• This squawking blue pest became the center of his pride, so one morning when he discovered a parrotless perch, he hovered with rage.1998, Tibor Fischer, The Collector Collector: A Novel, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 24. From the entry parrotless

Meaning of pest

1. noun A pestilence, i.e. a deadly epidemic, a deadly plague.
2. noun Any destructive insect that attacks crops or livestock; an agricultural pest.
3. noun An annoying person, a nuisance.

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Questions about pest in a sentence

How do you use pest in a sentence?

Pest is used as a noun. For example: “The garden snail, a blue-blooded land animal, is sometimes seen as food, sometimes as pest.”

What is a short sentence with pest?

“We have just contracted new pest control services.”

What does pest mean?

Pest means a pestilence, i.e. a deadly epidemic, a deadly plague.