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Example sentences for "vermin"

Lexicographically close words:
vermifuge; vermil; vermilion; vermilions; vermillion; vermine; verminous; vermouth; vernacular; vernaculars
  1. We don't want to have any talkee-talk with such vermin as you.

  2. Godsend, those vermin yonder have got smells enough of their own without noticing this.

  3. The floor is of dried mud, thickly covered with dust, which breeds fleas and other vermin to be a plague to me and my poor dogs.

  4. Huge serpents crossed their path, while all sorts of wild beasts and vermin peopled the dense forest and swarmed around them.

  5. Sometimes an old beggar might be observed hunting on the well-stocked preserves of his own body the lively vermin of the South.

  6. I found a dirty and smutty room, which, in addition to the disgust it excited, made me fear the presence of vermin and scorpions; of the latter I had a particular dread.

  7. I had already been told in AEgina of the great dirtiness and number of vermin prevalent in the Piraean inns, and had been warned against passing a night there; but what was to be done?

  8. So he waited still as death, watching, and nailed six feet of vermin instead of bunny.

  9. This is the squirt for it," he added calmly, placing the end of the instrument in the liquid, "and I will mayhap destroy the vermin which is lodged in that elm tree.

  10. They wash the sheep with it to destroy the vermin in them.

  11. Then there was Renton Nicholson, a specimen of social vermin if ever there was one.

  12. And, while rats and mice and obscure vermin are gradually taking possession of the land on which Britons were bred, the signs of bursting wealth are thick among us.

  13. What is worse, here was no rest to be had, for the multitudes of vermin up stairs and below.

  14. It could scarcely be otherwise when one considers the filth and degradation of their surroundings, where a number are crowded like so many animals into a filthy hut, overrun with vermin and parasites of all kinds.

  15. Though he went into the water several times a day and drenched his body and cleansed it from filth, it was of no avail, for the disease went on too quickly, and the quantity of vermin defied all attempts to clear it away.

  16. In the height of his good-humour, meeting a common beggar upon the road who was no conjurer, as he went to relieve him he found his pocket was picked; that being a kind of palmistry at which this race of vermin are very dexterous.

  17. The vermin obeyed, swimming in vast numbers across the strait to their domain.

  18. It has frequently happened, in all parts of the world, that an unusual number of vermin have made their appearance and destroyed the garden produce, or that flies have been so abundant as to drive the cattle mad from their bites.

  19. They rarely do any considerable damage on the plantations of Teff and Juwarree, whilst their services in destroying numberless vermin are most conspicuous.

  20. The bird had hopped the twig, and precious quick, too, whilst such vermin as these hold on to their cribs like a snail to his shell.

  21. Scarcely has the choked wretch breathed her last sigh than she is covered with myriads of the microscopic reptiles,--the greedy and horrible vermin of the mud.

  22. Then the impulse of extermination,--a divine instinct, intended to keep down vermin of all classes to their working averages in the economy of Nature.

  23. The hill-sides of Syria are riddled with holes, where miserable hermits, whose lives it had palsied, lived and died like the vermin they harbored.

  24. Before resorting to these means of annihilating vermin it is necessary to take steps to prevent the bodies from proving a nuisance after death.

  25. They can then be stored in paper bags or in boxes on any dry shelf which is safe from vermin and frost.

  26. Give air and water judiciously, and protect from vermin and all other enemies.

  27. Vaporite is a destroyer of the pupæ; this preparation has proved deadly to ground vermin generally.

  28. Thus you have devised a Woodlouse trap, and next morning you may knock the vermin out of it into a vessel full of hot water, or adopt any other mode of killing that may be convenient.

  29. The system has certain advantages in insuring safety from vermin and proper attention, for it is an unfortunate fact that too many cultivators consider it needless to thin or transplant sowings made in beds or borders.

  30. By laying it in a heap, and turning two or three times, the vermin will be pretty well got rid of.

  31. Should ground vermin claim attention, the best way to proceed will be to scratch shallow furrows very near the plants, taking care not to injure them.

  32. If the weather be dry, give a gentle soaking of water, and finish with a dusting of soot to prevent vermin from eating the seedlings.

  33. Vermin are most common around the ears, inside the legs, and in the folds of the skin on the jowl sides and flanks.

  34. Five rotten gables look upon Wan rotting roses and rank weeds, Old iron gates on posts of stone, Dim dingles where the vermin breeds.

  35. Him the Asas dragged beneath a burning mount Into a cavern black, by earthquakes rent When Earth was young to heave her spawn of Trolls, The vermin which engendered in the corpse Of Ymer huge, whose flesh did make the world.

  36. A range on the same principle might readily be made ornamentally, in part or wholly of iron, standing on feet, moveable anywhere, and setting vermin at defiance.

  37. When these vermin have established themselves, there is no remedy but driving the bees into another hive.

  38. The vermin were bad and presented a problem until we arranged with the Russians to take one end to themselves, the French and Belgians the middle and we the other end.

  39. The vermin were so bad here that we chanced further trouble by writing on post cards as though to friends in England, and complained.

  40. There were sores on some of the Russians as big as a hand, eaten deep into by the vermin and the bones threatened to break through the skin of some as we sat about naked, shivering.


  41. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vermin" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.