Example Sentences

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They ended the day by marching to the almost pestilentially polluted Cuyahoga River.

From Time Magazine Archive

There was a pipe in it but no water, and I say without fear of challenge that it was pestilentially dirty.

From Third class in Indian railways by Gandhi, Mahatma

To judge from the fervid descriptions given us by Jaffery and Liosha, Albania must be a pestilentially uncomfortable place to live in.

From Jaffery by Locke, William John

Adrian was a lucky devil, a pestilentially lucky devil.

From Jaffery by Locke, William John

I gently insisted, pointing out that I did not care for a walk across the wind-swept desert only to dip myself into a pool of lukewarm and pestilentially sulphureous water.

From Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia by Douglas, Norman