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:

Within two months the blight had spread across Europe, from Ireland to Scandinavia.
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.
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.
' 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.
The Great Famine struck in 1845 with a blight on the staple food of the poor, the potato.