PEST in a Sentence

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For PEST, below is one of 17 sentences:
Behind Billy's Lunch, the cook, in an apron which must long ago have been white, smoked a pipe and spat at the pest of sticky flies.

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 Meanings and Examples of PEST
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
pest
 n.  persistently annoying person; organism that injures livestock or crops
Classic Sentence:
1  Death has a fashion of harassing victory, and she causes the pest to follow glory.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—HOUGOMONT
2  There is corruption under all illustrious tyrants, but the moral pest is still more hideous under infamous tyrants.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER II—THE ROOT OF THE MATTER
3  Behind Billy's Lunch, the cook, in an apron which must long ago have been white, smoked a pipe and spat at the pest of sticky flies.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
4  I was a nuisance, an incumbrance, and a pest.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV
5  And he who does it, is justly to be esteemed the common enemy and pest of mankind, and is to be treated accordingly.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
Example Sentence:
1  He climbed on the table, pulled my hair, and was generally a pest.
2  The pest control officer put bowls of rat poison in the attic.
3  The researchers were actually working on a mouse contraceptive vaccine for pest control, according to New Scientist.
4  Police are looking for a sex pest who is frightening late-night travellers.
5  They warn it could take years to eradicate the pest.
6  The estimated cost of staffing and maintaining a functional pest management center is approximately 1 million dollars per year.
7  Stores of grain are frequently attacked by pests, especially rats.
8  Birds are the natural enemies of many insect pests.
9  The pests spread quickly in these regions.
10  The potato is vulnerable to several pests.
11  This increases the vulnerability of crops to a major outbreak of pests or diseases; so the old breeds are needed for their valuable genetic material.
12  List the vertebrate pests that commonly cause problems at cattle feedlots, dairies, and poultry.