Words similar to blight

Example sentences for: blight

How can you use “blight” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

The result is romanticization: Terrorist groups like the IRA become freedom fighters, and a blight becomes genocide.
' Chukker `period of polo play,' dhoti `loincloth,' dinghy, ganja `cannabis used for smoking,' khidmatgar `male waiter,' khuskhus, kutcha `crude, imperfect,' myna `species of bird,' puggaree `blight turban, scarf,' raggee `finger millet,' ryotwar `system of collecting land rents or taxes,' sambar `type of deer,' and zamindari `system of land holding' each have three other acceptable spellings.
But this has been the blight of this century: too much government.
But most of those residents, it is clear from these accounts, also were animated by enthusiasm for the larger experiment, Celebration's self-declared mission of turning around the soul-deadening blight of suburban sprawl and employing virtuous design and bedrock community principles to reinvigorate the nation's civic life.
They show me all the evidence of gambling blight you'd never want to see, from a youth-center-turned-crack-house to pawn shops to sex shops to down at heels casinos to quickie motels.