PLAGUE in a Sentence
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47 example sentences for PLAGUE, such as:
1. Famine plagued a score of nations.
2. Please one's eye and plague one's heart.
3. The population was decimated by a plague.
4. We can all plague and punish one another.
5. The city is under threat from a plague of rats.
2. Please one's eye and plague one's heart.
3. The population was decimated by a plague.
4. We can all plague and punish one another.
5. The city is under threat from a plague of rats.
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Meanings and Examples of PLAGUE
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plague
v. cause to suffer a blight
n. any large scale calamity (especially when thought to be sent by God)
Classic Sentence: (32 in 3 pages)
1 Scarlett thought despairingly that a plague of locusts would be more welcome.
2 Even the Yankees admitted that it was a plague spot and should be wiped out, but they took no steps in this direction.
3 Carol crept to her room, sat with hands curled tight together as she listened to a plague of voices.
4 It may well be conceived, what an unsavory odor such a mass must exhale; worse than an Assyrian city in the plague, when the living are incompetent to bury the departed.
5 Some thinking they would catch the plague, dipped oakum in coal-tar, and at intervals held it to their nostrils.
6 I don't know, I'm sure, except for a plague; they are the plague of my life.
7 Scarcely was I sold, than the plague which had made the tour of Africa, Asia, and Europe, broke out with great malignancy in Algiers.
8 "To plague us to death," answered Martin.
9 Their putrescence is evident, their stagnation is unhealthy, their fermentation infects people with fever, and etiolates them; their multiplication becomes a plague of Egypt.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—ON WHAT CONDITIONS ONE CAN RESPECT THE PAST
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—ON WHAT CONDITIONS ONE CAN RESPECT THE PAST
10 For the Gillenormands, Pontmercy was a man afflicted with the plague.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—ONE OF THE RED SPECTRES OF THAT EPOCH
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—ONE OF THE RED SPECTRES OF THAT EPOCH
11 The insurgents become noxious, infected with the plague.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XX—THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE N...
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XX—THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE N...
12 I don't mean to plague you and will bear it like a man, but I do wish it was all settled.
13 We can all plague and punish one another.
14 Linton had slid from his seat on to the hearthstone, and lay writhing in the mere perverseness of an indulged plague of a child, determined to be as grievous and harassing as it can.
15 You have politics, of course; and it would be too bad to plague you with the names of people and parties that fill up my time.
Example Sentence:
1 I love you like a god of plague and why I treat you like a lover.
2 Please one's eye and plague one's heart.
3 I'm not a fan of parties - in fact I avoid them like the plague.
4 The plague was greatly feared in the Middle Ages.
5 The population was decimated by a plague.
6 The city is under threat from a plague of rats.
7 This research tells us the ravages of the plague that swept through Europe in the mid 14th century.
8 They feared the plague and regarded it as a deadly scourge.
9 His administration was plagued by one petty scandal after another, cumulatively very damaging.
10 He is plagued by demons which go back to his traumatic childhood.
11 The town has been plagued by armed thugs who have looted food supplies and terrorized the population.
12 Famine plagued a score of nations.
13 If you're plagued by indigestion, take garlic supplements after lunch and after dinner.
14 About the claim that plagued the palace, there was a categorical denial, alongside a string of reasons why her story did not add up.
15 Financial problems have been plaguing their new business partners.