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
No, not all the gold in the mines would get me to that pestilential plague spot.
From The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 2 by Furniss, Harry
"Another plague spot," he cried, jerking his head in that direction.
From The Firm of Girdlestone by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir
