plague spot
Example Sentences
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“This is a plague spot, infecting the entire community,” complained William Miller Bowen, a former City Councilman who taught law classes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2023
He visited a colony of Catholic lepers alone, his guides dreading the plague spot.
From Time Magazine Archive
Long before Waksman began his work on soil, scientists had noted that if a diseased body is buried, the point of burial does not become a plague spot.
From Time Magazine Archive
Early in the morning I shall look further into that plague spot of Cerverra's.
From Uncle Sam's Boys in the Philippines or, Following the Flag against the Moros by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock
"Sligo is a plague spot; disease in every street, and of the worst kind."
From The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines by John O'Rourke
