Sentence example with the word 'blight'

blight

abnormality, befoulment, corruption, disability, freeze, hex, mar, pathological condition, respiratory disease, symptoms, wither

Definition n. a state or condition being blighted

Last update: September 13, 2015


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Its magic turned everything they touched to gold, but it brought a blight on the peace of the household.   [noun]

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Early blight shows as distinctive dark brown spots, somewhat angular, with concentric rings and bounded by the leaf veins.   [noun]

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Because of the urban blight that has taken over the downtown area, many of the stores have relocated to suburban malls.   [noun]

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Hopes sprang up in my heart only to be crushed and blighted.   [noun]

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But all the hopes of better times were blighted with the fresh outbreak of war in 1803.   [Please select]

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Dogmatism and intolerance prevail, and a blight comes over the choicest potencies of the soul.   [Please select]

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My daughters are honest women, unless by your villainy, one, who should have been sacred, as your sister by affinity, should bear a blighted name.   [noun]

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It would hurt no one--no one--except perhaps those children, who might suffer a brief sorrow--and it would make two lives happy that must be blighted else.   [noun]

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