How to Use infest in a Sentence

infest

verb
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  • Stressed plants can be infested by soft green aphids, thin and dark flower thrips, or tiny spider mites.
    — Rebecca Bull Reed, Southern Living, 10 June 2024
  • Phishing sites don’t try to infest your computer with malware.
    — PCMAG, 14 June 2024
  • Discovering that your body is infested with worms is cringe-worthy enough.
    — Blake Bakkila, Health.com, 13 Feb. 2018
  • Expect to hear howls from inside the White House gates, and from the enablers infesting the cable green rooms as well.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 5 Dec. 2017
  • British roofs devolved from tile to thatch — perishable, flammable, insect-infested — and their floors reverted to plain earth.
    — Helen Andrews, National Review, 18 Dec. 2017
  • It was infested with ticks and fleas, had been sprayed by a skunk and had injuries around its ears, possibly from pawing at the container in a vain attempt to remove it.
    — Benjy Egel, sacbee, 6 Feb. 2018
  • So the presence of the larvae hair suggests that the ticks were infesting a dinosaur nest, possibly a brood of theropod​ dinos—the deep ancestors of modern birds.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 13 Dec. 2017
  • Weeks prior to the woman's death on Aug. 8, Hill's office said inspectors found the room where the resident's body was found had been infested with multiple bugs.
    — Vic Ryckaert, Indianapolis Star, 12 Feb. 2018
  • This tick is known to infest deer and a wide range of other hosts.
    — Lindsay Kimble, PEOPLE.com, 24 Apr. 2018
  • Small white fluffy material on the stem and trunk of the trees are one of the signs that the tree is infested.
    — Joe Heim, Washington Post, 21 Apr. 2023
  • For the past three years, my home has been infested with biting gnats.
    — Ronda Kaysen, New York Times, 27 May 2023
  • What should gardeners do about the aphids and bugs that infest milkweed stems and blooms?
    — Calvin Finch, San Antonio Express-News, 17 Sep. 2021
  • The twist is that the map is also infested with cube monsters that are trying to kill you.
    — Andrew Webster, The Verge, 6 Nov. 2018
  • One was placed in a basement unit that had no heat and was infested with rats and spiders.
    — Maria Perez, jsonline.com, 4 Dec. 2019
  • The internet, meanwhile, has likely served to swell the ranks of the infested.
    — National Geographic, 22 June 2018
  • There are many species of round worms (nematodes) that can infest fish.
    — Joe Genzel, Outdoor Life, 27 May 2020
  • The tiny orange critters infest plants that are too dry or whose leaves are covered in dust.
    — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Aug. 2021
  • If the library’s got bugs, and death beetles infested it in the 1970s, well, the stacks can turn into freezers.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Nic Cage’s ex claims her rental house is infested with toxic black mold that makes her sick.
    — Mark Shanahan, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Apr. 2018
  • No one knows how many thousands of pythons infest the Everglades.
    — David Fleshler, sun-sentinel.com, 28 June 2019
  • People slept on the ground, froze in the cold, sweated in the heat, didn’t have enough to eat, couldn’t keep clean, and became infested with disease.
    — Ephrat Livni, Quartz, 13 July 2019
  • It is most commonly carried by the black-legged or deer tick and can infest humans and pets.
    — Kaleb A. Brown, Detroit Free Press, 17 June 2020
  • The panties become infested with the bacteria, yeast and mold.
    — Essence, 9 Aug. 2019
  • As much as 4% to 6% of beans by count are also allowed to be insect-infested or moldy.
    — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 4 Oct. 2019
  • With Rothwell's help, researchers are still studying the timing of when SWD lay their eggs and infest the ripening fruit.
    — Nour Rahal, Detroit Free Press, 25 Apr. 2023
  • The basement walls are crumbling, Brown said, and her home is infested with vermin.
    — Gretchen Morgenson, NBC News, 5 July 2023
  • The algae has infested about 10 acres of the lake, resident Bob Watson told the station.
    — Joe Marusak, Charlotte Observer, 27 Jan. 2024
  • Rockchucks have continued to infest some school grounds in Redmond.
    — oregonlive, 15 Apr. 2021
  • Silverfish are by far one of the most cursed insects that can infest your home—right next to cockroaches and centipedes.
    — Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 20 July 2021
  • Smugglers avoid the main road, which is so infested with bandits that traders move in convoys, escorted by the army.
    — The Economist, 5 July 2018

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