pest

Definition:
1. An insect or animal that destroys plants, food, etc.
2. A persistently annoying person.

Use 'pest' in a sentence:

• 1. The new master was very angry. He said: "These shameless pests steal things and make trouble so devastatingly7. How could they be tolerated?"
• 2. I don't want to become a pest.
• 3. Hardware Design of a Real-time Detection System for Agriculture Field Pests.
• 4. Short-term effects include the disturbances directly associated with the action of the pest, which may cause the defoliation, loss of vigor, or death of trees.
• 5. There is no pest here.
• 6. Ogbeh says experts are investigating how to control the pest's damage and prevent its spread, which has gone largely unchecked until now.
• 7. Ragwort was accidentally introduced to New Zealand in the late nineteenth century and, like so many invading foreign species, quickly became a pest.
• 8. Many pests are resistant to the insecticide.
• 9. Animal and vegetable pests propagate with extreme rapidity.
• 10. This kind of insecuritymake women think you're a pest。
• 11. Scientists from the UK's Centre for Overseas Pest Research, evaluate mass trapping of the cotton leafworm.
• 12. Don't be a pest or a troublemaker this week.
• 13. On the other hand, you don't want to become a pest.
• 14. In the late 1960s, when Sri Lanka's flourishing coconut groves were plagued by leaf-mining hispides, a larval parasite imported from Singapore brought the pest under control.
• 15. This is a pest.
• 16. Woodpeckers can exterminate insect pests hiding in trees.
• 17. The cane toad itself became a pest and has destroyed much of the wildlife on that continent.
• 18. The cane toad was introduced back in 1935 to control an insect pest that was destroying Australia's sugarcane plantations.
• 19. At the same time, this sea-water also kills off the greedy giant apple snail, an introduced pest that feeds on young rice plants.
• 20. Research on Low Public Hazard Integrated Control Technology of Tobacco Pest.
• 21. The scale insect Paracerostegia kunmingensis Tang et Xie is an important pest that harms the deconative plants Pittosporum tobira.
• 22. Even though the price charged by Fly-Away is considerably lower, our best means of saving money is to return to Buzzoff for all our pest control services.
• 23. Sorry, I'm being a pest.
• 24. The deserts are irrigated with water and crops are no longer eaten by pests.
• 25. The crop failure was due in part to drought and in part to insect pests.
• 26. This sea-water also kills off the greedy giant apple snail, an introduced pest that feeds on young rice plants.
• 27. Sarcophaga peregrina is a pest of health, with a small body and a great power in reproduction.
• 28. This is a new subject and needs to be explored in depth. pest, most severe, etc.
• 29. That child is being a real pest.
• 30. Away with all pests.
• 31. That man's a real pest.
• 32. Long seen as fluttering pests that make holes in your clothes, scientists now say we have badly misjudged the humble1 moth2.
• 33. The whole community turned out to wipe out the four pests.
• 34. Given the moth's ability also to attack crops like pepper and potatoes, Audu Ogbeh, Nigeria's minister of agriculture, has warned that the pest may "create serious problems for food security" in the country.
• 35. White storks feed on locusts and other insects that can become pests if their numbers get out of hand.
• 36. "I would make a complete pest of myself," he says.
• 37. This kind of insecurity make women think you're a pest.
• 38. They can devastate8 marine habitats, but a recent competition for environmental start-ups in Australia, saw them not as a pest but a delicacy9.
• 39. I have nothing to say about this pest.
• 40. This is almost a pest-control service.
• 41. He's a pest.
• 42. He climbed on the table, pulled my hair, and was generally a pest.
• 43. The scientists have also discovered three new viruses within the toad's DNA, which could be used to control pests.
• 44. In Vietnam, bad weather and pest outbreaks hurt harvests.
• 45. He doesn't spray against pests or diseases.
• 46. At last the owl could stand it no longer, but determined7 to rid herself of the pest by means of a trick.
• 47. They have spent$ 3 million building fences around the National Park to exclude such pests.
• 48. In the short term, chemical sprays are clearly an effective way to control pests.
• 49. One hundred million rats are killed each year by pest exterminators.
• 50. Each year ten percent of the crop is lost to a pest called corn rootworm.
• 51. Frogs eat pests which destroy crops and carry diseases.
• 52. To take an extreme example, farmlands dominated by a single crop are so unstable that one year of bad weather or the invasion of a single pest can destroy the entire crop.
• 53. The image of the fox as a pest is grossly exaggerated in anecdote and folklore.
• 54. The destiny of the pest in the chestnut is not known before reaching the destination.
• 55. Several key crops failed when they were attacked by pests.
• 56. CIBC also serves as a clearing-house for the export and import of biological agents for pest control world-wide.