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Plague
"Plague" in a Sentence (20 examples)
Rats carry the plague.
More often than not, famine is accompanied by plague.
The plague occurred that year.
So far no less than 100 people have died of the plague.
Thousands of people died during the plague.
I'm the type that avoids risk like the plague.
A worldwide plague of theft emptied museums.
One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague.
Tobacco, divine, rare, superexcellent tobacco, which goes far beyond all the panaceas, potable gold, and philosopher's stones, a sovereign remedy to all diseases...but as it is commonly abused by most men, which take it as tinkers do ale, 'tis a plague, a mischief, a violent purger of goods, lands, health, hellish, devilish and damned tobacco, the ruin and overthrow of body and soul.
For some reason, people have been avoiding me like the plague ever since I got back from India.
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It was about the beginning of September, 1664, that I, among the rest of my neighbours, heard in ordinary discourse that the plague was returned again in Holland[…] It mattered not from whence it came; but all agreed it was come into Holland again.
Great plagues, such as the bubonic plague or smallpox or syphilis or influenza, can happen again.
Ten Biblical plagues over Egypt, ranging from locusts to the death of the crown prince, finally forced Pharaoh to let Moses's people go.
A plague a both the Houſes, I am sped: / Is he gone and hath nothing?
Bart is an utter plague; his pranks never cease.
This is the first time a President has attended this dinner in six years. It's understandable- we had a horrible plague, followed by two years of COVID!
"Moreover," replied Congreve, "it was a sort of flattery to the duke. It showed that she valued the power of plaguing him more than her own fairest ornament. Flattery is the real secret by which a woman keeps her lover."
[W]hat we have here, they believe, are two members of gangs that have been plaguing Islington for more than a year. They snatch smartphones from pedestrians, then sell the items on the black market.
Just as Mr. Clinton began a comeback with a down-home plea for forgiveness, Mrs. Clinton now seems determined to prove, perhaps to the point of overcompensation, that she will not repeat the mistakes that plagued her 2008 campaign.
Natural catastrophes plagued the colonists till they abandoned the pestilent marshland.
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