Word: infester
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...sweetness and emotional flexibility of Murillo, and Zurbaran had turned to producing devotional paintings by the score for the provincial market in Latin America. Some of the late madonnas in which he tried to rival Murillo's sentimental grace are sugary beyond belief, and the swarms of putti that infest them are among the ugliest in Spanish...
spreads, Soviet bugs infest U. S. facilities...
Although Secretary of Education Bennett announced that the report will not influence administration policy, we have to wonder how many policies Mr. Baker's mind has influenced and what kind of damage has resulted. And how many other small-minded and irresponsible petty bureaucrats infest Washington? Norths and Bakers do not gravitate to their positions, they are appointed. They are consequently reflections of a President overcome by his own ideological furvor...
...deep night out on a Texas plain flat as a pan bottom and just about burned through. A recent rain had slaked the land a little but brought forth legions of ants to infest the ground and pester a nearby film...
Since I would never dream of learning the real names of the things which infest my sections, I always give them functional names of my own. Therefore, as I sit in a room listening to The Angry Young Man assail Chekhov's validity as a dramatist, I find myself avoiding the unsettling gaze of Morticia, surveying the impressive dimensions of the Snufalopagus in her sweat suit, and looking wistfully at the pale, frail features of the Pardoner...