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
“And I understand,” he continued, “that you are ready to give me every assistance I need to root out this plague spot, as you term it?”
From Hunting the Skipper The Cruise of the "Seafowl" Sloop by Piffard, Harold
I merely add: in whosoever it is found it is an evil, in a superior it is a plague spot....
From Evelyn Innes by Moore, George (George Augustus)
