How to Use vermin in a Sentence

vermin

noun

• The room was crawling with roaches and other vermin.
• There were holes that allowed vermin and wasps to sneak through.
  — New York Times, 23 Mar. 2021
• Some are kept behind the kitchen door to deal with vermin around the farm and even for self-defense.
  — Richard Mann, Field & Stream, 9 Mar. 2021
• Rats and other vermin were feasting on the baked goods.
  — Jennie Rothenberg Gritz, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Feb. 2023
• Smail said the best way to combat vermin is to keep a place clean and sanitized.
  — Anna Bauman, SFChronicle.com, 1 Oct. 2019
• The spared vermin can then be deposited far from the dwelling to keep them from coming back.
  — Adam Hadhazy, Popular Mechanics, 9 Mar. 2021
• If the job of the Bat is to round up the rats, then the director needs to supply high-quality vermin.
  — The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2022
• My neighbor built a compost bin from old pallets and lined it with chicken wire to keep the scraps in and the vermin out.
  — Susan Brownstein, cleveland, 14 June 2022
• The king may still be breathing, but the vermin visual is a clear symbol of his decay.
  — Erica Gonzales, ELLE, 26 Sep. 2022
• Detainees find vermin such as cockroaches or body parts of rats in the food.
  — Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 9 May 2024
• While some people may see wolves as vermin, many more put a high value on wolves.
  — Ben Long, Outdoor Life, 6 Mar. 2020
• The homes were often filled with vermin, mold and even the very drug abuse that some tenants were seeking to escape.
  — Kim Barker, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2018
• Wild dogs—which kill livestock—were viewed as vermin, and were not on the list of animals to be conserved.
  — Saima Sidik, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Aug. 2021
• After all, New York City has fought the vermin to a stalemate for more than a century.
  — Jonathan Auerbach, Slate Magazine, 21 July 2017
• The elite didn’t want to connect their cesspools to the sewer pipes because that would likely bring the vermin and stink into their homes.
  — Lina Zeldovich, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Nov. 2021
• The streets are extended gutters and the gutters are full of blood and when the drains finally scab over, all the vermin will drown.
  — Maya Phillips, The New Yorker, 17 Dec. 2019
• People who live in cities are used to the company of furry vermin.
  — Alice Park, Time, 17 Apr. 2018
• The heat was so intense that [the 300-plus prisoners] were all naked, which also served the well to get rid of vermin, but the sick were eaten up alive.
  — Benedict Cosgrove, Smithsonian, 13 Mar. 2017
• Piles of garbage in nearby vacant lots draw vermin: mice, which are one of the worst asthma triggers, along with rats.
  — Rachel Bluth, baltimoresun.com, 8 Dec. 2017
• Council members talked publicly about the mold, vermin and trash in the housing units in August.
  — Ray Padilla, The Courier-Journal, 4 Feb. 2024
• But there's something even dreamier and more debonair about the vermin version of Sherlock.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 12 June 2024
• The basement walls are crumbling, Brown said, and her home is infested with vermin.
  — Gretchen Morgenson, NBC News, 5 July 2023
• Within a year, the camp was overcrowded and overrun by vermin.
  — Dawn Mitchell, The Indianapolis Star, 8 June 2020
• Better to have some vermin living in your neighborhood than to be one.
  — Osita Nwanevu, The New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2019
• The third, fourth and fifth visits on May 27, June 1 and June 3 fared no better, with dozens of vermin spotted on each occasion.
  — Phillip Valys, sun-sentinel.com, 7 June 2021
• Among them, trash heaps, subway vermin, tourists, and—above all—small living quarters.
  — Oliver Cano, ELLE Decor, 23 June 2023
• For example, in the 1500s in England, laws known as the vermin acts set bounties for killing many animals, not just rats and mice.
  — New York Times, 11 May 2021
• The scientists theorize that the poison paint was used to protect the books from insects and vermin.
  — Amanda Erickson, Washington Post, 10 July 2018
• Three years ago, my sister’s husband died suddenly, leaving her in a house that is infested with vermin and could be condemned.
  — Jeanne Phillips, The Mercury News, 6 July 2024
• Now, Meta will remove more content that includes the word Zionist, such as posts that claim Zionists are running the world or controlling the news media, or posts that compare Zionists to pigs, filth or vermin.
  — Will Oremus, Washington Post, 10 July 2024

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024