Plaguing

A huge federal budget deficit has been plaguing the American economy for many years.

Alcohol and other substance abuse is plaguing our society at the moment.

The problems plaguing millennials are the result of economic decisions made in the late '70s and early '80s, according to sociologist David Grusky, director of the Center on Poverty and Inequality at Stanford University.

Poverty, drugs, alcohol, frequent disappearances of young women and the absence of law enforcement are all issues plaguing the Pine Ridge Native American Reservation in South Dakota.

Bureaucracy is plaguing our lives.

Inflation has been plaguing Algeria for the past five years.

Every man, Mexican and child on the ranch was the devoted courtier of Miss Jean, for she was a lovable woman; and in spite of her isolated life and the constant plaguings of her brother on being a spinster, she fitted neatly into our pastoral life.