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Example sentences for: blight

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

Within two months the blight had spread across Europe, from Ireland to Scandinavia.
The Great Famine struck in 1845 with a blight on the staple food of the poor, the potato.
For nature's Darwinian response to the mobile phone blight, try www.smn.co.jp/keyword/0158k01e.html, courtesy of Kate Wing.
No doubt Farmer Blight can stand it, and has got used to the jokes produced by a not altogether happy conjunction of name and business.
Because this is the problem: In the face of our postwar, retail, mobile, corporate culture, democracy is not only a seemingly ineffectual anodyne to social blight; it becomes a part of the problem.