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Example sentences for: pox

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In the Romanization system I learned (and a pox on Peiking/Beijing for replacing the clear with the opaque) the two characters are transliterated as mei-kuo , disregarding the tonal diacritical marks.
Or maybe, "Celebrity interviews are the pox of glossy magazine journalism."
So about all I can do is wonder if Harrison Ford's weary stare would have been as weary if he reversed his word order and intoned, "Success is the pox of celebrity."
"Celebrity is the pox of success," says Harrison Ford as he gives the camera his trademark weary stare.
My doctor was most attentive--he even visited me at home when I came down with chicken pox--though more out of curiosity than solicitude, he admitted, adult chicken pox being so rare.