VERMIN in a Sentence

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14 example sentences for VERMIN, such as:

1. You are covered with marvels and vermin.
2. Some communicable diseases are transmitted only through the agency of vermin or insects.
3. The vermin ditch of Benares is no less conducive to giddiness than the lions' ditch of Babylon.
4. One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin.

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 Meanings and Examples of VERMIN
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
vermin
 n.  various small animals or insects, such as rats or cockroaches, those are destructive, annoying, or injurious to health
Classic Sentence:
1  We cannot think without affright of those lands where fakirs, bonzes, santons, Greek monks, marabouts, talapoins, and dervishes multiply even like swarms of vermin.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—ON WHAT CONDITIONS ONE CAN RESPECT THE PAST
2  The vermin ditch of Benares is no less conducive to giddiness than the lions' ditch of Babylon.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE SEWER
3  You are covered with marvels and vermin.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER VI—THE GRASS COVERS AND THE RAIN EFFACES
4  Undoubtedly this did keep down the vermin, but it seemed probable, in view of all the circumstances, that the old lady regarded it rather as feeding the chickens than as cleaning the rooms.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
5  He would have to bid farewell to his summer cleanliness, of course, for he would come out of the first night's lodging with his clothes alive with vermin.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 23
6  I could see distinctly the limbs of these vermin with my naked eye, much better than those of a European louse through a microscope, and their snouts with which they rooted like swine.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV.
7  Possibly they had lived on rats and such-like vermin.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In VII
8  But the notes were long and shrill and whirring, unlike the cry of vermin, falling a third or a fourth and trilled as the flying beaks clove the air.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
9  One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin.
Metamorphosis By Franz Kafka
Context  Highlight   In I
10  Then Dr. Johnson blandly assured us that education was needful solely for the embellishments of life, and was useless for ordinary vermin.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VI
11  The hospitals were filled with dirty, bewhiskered, verminous men who smelled terribly and bore on their bodies wounds hideous enough to turn a Christian's stomach.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
12  The Confederate soldier was so accustomed to his verminous state he did not give it a thought and scratched unconcernedly even in the presence of ladies.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
Example Sentence:
1  Why should any resident have to suffer a likely increase in vermin simply because their neighbor doesn't like the look of a wheelie bin?
2  Some communicable diseases are transmitted only through the agency of vermin or insects.