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Example sentences for: scourge

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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.
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.
Rockefeller's flack did a yeoman's job of placing warm stories about this scourge of the corporate high seas.
In wealth, as elsewhere, religion was his staff and his scourge.
In his second week as press scourge, Steve Brill remains a hot topic.