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Example sentences for: scourge

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Athens managed to escape the scourge, but only after 700 b.c. did it take over and lift to unimagined heights the heritage of Mycenae and Crete.
Newt and Marianne have no kids; neither does Pat Buchanan; Bob Barr, married thrice and veteran of whipped cream on waitresses; Bob Dole, ditched his first; John Podhoretz, scourge of gay monogamy, quitting his first marriage after a matter of weeks, John McLaughlin.
He arrived at a convenient time in the tobacco fight: He had no strong feelings about the evil weed, and he became the tobacco scourge only when Republican leaders asked him to shepherd the bill through the Senate.
That subtlety shouldn't cause him too much distress, because the press's fascination with itself is a bonanza for its self-proclaimed scourge.
Those achievements, it seems to me, will have progressively worn down humanity's evidently desperate determination to close its eyes to the prospect of defeating its foremost remaining scourge anytime soon.