scourge

Example Sentences

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First, the bad news: “Snowcrete” is the treacherous ice that results when rain, imprecise or nonexistent plowing and insufficient salting turn what was once fluffy white snow into a dense and dirty scourge.

From The Wall Street Journal

By 1529, she had died, possibly succumbing to smallpox, a European scourge.

From Los Angeles Times

They worried it could turn into deflation, a major scourge of the economy during the Great Depression in the 1930s.

From MarketWatch

They worried it could turn into deflation, a major scourge of the economy during the Great Depression in the 1930s.

From MarketWatch

It is seen as a scourge of the modern game.

From BBC