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Example sentences for: scourge

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In wealth, as elsewhere, religion was his staff and his scourge.
They faced repeated assault and siege from neighboring Malay forces, and malaria was a constant scourge.
Rockefeller's flack did a yeoman's job of placing warm stories about this scourge of the corporate high seas.
If gambling were the grim scourge portrayed by its opponents, it would not have gone from a contemptible vice to an innocent diversion in a single generation.
Chief among its projects was the Aswan High Dam, which provided hydroelectricity to the population and freed the country from the scourge of the annual river flood, bringing security to the highly populated Nile Delta.