Example sentences for: plague

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

  • Despite this, the imperial treasury allotted only 5,000 rupees a week for the plague and famine victims of 1631.

  • These issues have continued to plague the accounting profession since the 1970s despite actions taken by the profession to narrow the so-called "expectation gap" between what the public expects or needs and what auditors can and should reasonably be expected to accomplish.

  • The section also assesses the millennium's worst year as 1347 (bubonic plague comes to the Continent) and its best as 1789 (French Revolution, George Washington takes office, the factory system is born, bourbon is invented, Mozart writes two piano sonatas, and Beethoven writes two preludes).

  • The war and the disastrous effects of the plague decimated the population of Poland, reducing it to just four million, roughly half its total in the early 17th century.

  • After an absence of 10 years, she returns accompanied by a plague of robins who coat the town in shit and fall dead from the skies.


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