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
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
He visited a colony of Catholic lepers alone, his guides dreading the plague spot.
From Time Magazine Archive
To sum it up, the real plague spot is the people who are bored, and who must needs kill other men's time, lest their own should kill them by its weight.
From Autobiographical Reminiscences with Family Letters and Notes on Music by Gounod, Charles
When he was sent to Joló, practically in banishment, the town was a plague spot to which were assigned Spaniards whose early demise would have been looked upon with favour by those in power.
From The Philippines: Past and Present (Volume 1 of 2) by Worcester, Dean C.
