blight

Example Sentences

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This market-driven renewal filled vacant lots and derelict sites, reduced blight, converted nonperforming parcels into taxpaying assets and created billions of dollars in new wealth for existing homeowners, with little evidence of widespread displacement.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

Multiple factors caused the famine, including the potato blight that destroyed the main source of food, and the political and socioeconomic circumstances of British colonial rule.

From BBC • May 22, 2026

So if everyone hates the light blight, why do cities keep installing it?

From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2026

Mary’s presence is a malignancy, a blight on the name that Sam has worked so hard to build, an identity that’s separate from Mary’s and secure in its solitude.

From Salon • Apr. 24, 2026

I knew that to Grigori, what had resembled a blight had probably been a modest building from the outside, so as to avoid making a target of itself.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros