infests
- present tense form of infest (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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The pollution that infests those systems can include everything from silt and natural debris to asbestos, heavy metals, radioactive isotopes and other harmful contaminants released when man-made structures burn.
From New York Times • Sep. 26, 2022
It costs $200 to $500 per tree, and must be done as a preventive measure, Graves added, because once a beetle infests a tree, it’s too late.
From Washington Times • Apr. 24, 2021
Here’s the key: During a séance, the vampires are confronted by their dead spirits; one infests a doll.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 24, 2020
The kids may be top students, but the culture of money and luxury brands that infests the campuses leaves them feeling like lower-class outcasts rather than full members of the community.
From Washington Post • Mar. 1, 2019
This insect infests about a third of Africa, posing a menace to human health and preventing the keeping of livestock in an area of some 4% million square miles of wooded grasslands.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
