Example Sentences

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Once established, it has the potential to spread to uninfested areas through natural means or through the movement of infested articles.

From Washington Times • Dec. 6, 2019

Systemic pesticides can save some trees that are only partially damaged and kill the larvae that begin eating previously uninfested trees.

From Washington Times • Oct. 4, 2014

They decided that the grassy valley was almost uninfested by things dangerous.

From The Story of Ab A Tale of the Time of the Cave Man by Waterloo, Stanley

Max took her to sit down at an end of the room uninfested by chaperons.

From A Soldier of the Legion by Williamson, C. N. (Charles Norris)

Then, by accident largely, I chanced upon the plot to bull the cotton market by introducing the boll weevil into the uninfested cotton area, and checked that.

From The Secret of Lonesome Cove by Adams, Samuel Hopkins