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
With these conditions no contagious diseases, if properly taken care of, could exist; without them the place would be a veritable plague spot.
From The Story of the Philippines and Our New Possessions, Including the Ladrones, Hawaii, Cuba and Porto Rico The Eldorado of the Orient by Halstead, Murat
It became a plague spot, retaining as the only vestige of its former beauty, its grand old trees, which were once the pride of the city.
From Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City by McCabe, James Dabney
