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infest - use in sentences
Object
- shark: Teams had to use milk crates and boards to cross shark infested waters.
- pasture: Stock forced to graze on heavily infested pastures may suffer skin eruptions about the mouth.
- river: Perhaps they will have to cross a crocodile infested river, find pirate's treasure or swim with a seahorse.
- crop: Return to listing Cabbage aphids are green-grey with a white, waxy coating which infest cruciferous crops.
- wood: Yeah, the subterranean live in the ground and infest wood from their ground bases, so they are not a problem on boats.
- water: In 1879 he was awarded the Royal Humane bronze medal for diving into shark infested waters to rescue a member of his crew.
Preposition: with
- memes: A person, says Dennett, is a certain sort of ape infested with memes.
- cockroach: I slept on a plank that was infested with cockroaches.
- vermin: Their was no fresh food and cabins could be infested with vermin.
- maggot: Found wandering in the woods with wounds infested with maggots.
- flea: The cloth was infested with the rat fleas now known to be responsible for the spread of the disease.
- louse: Everyone who worked in the tunnel must have been infested with lice.
Subject
- bandit: One was safe and the others infested by bad bandits.
Preposition: by
- bandit: One was safe and the others infested by bad bandits.
Modifying Another Word
- heavily: In 1996, nearly half of about two million acres of Bt cotton planted in the United States became heavily infested.
- badly: Laying badly infested land down to grass will crowd out the weed.
- often: Controlling pests Plants are often infested soon after being planted out and, if unchecked, foliage and flowers can become unsightly.
- much: The river is deep, 80 yards wide, and much infested with crocodiles.
- so: Less than 1/16 th of the field was so infested.
- also: The cowpea crops were also infested by pod borers.
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