blot on the landscape
Example Sentences
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One complainant called the plans "a blot on the landscape" with another accusing the applicant of "considerable removal of existing hedgerow on the site".
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2023
For many villagers, who moved to Ashalim for a flawless desert view, it was a considerable blot on the landscape.
From New York Times ● Oct. 9, 2022
“Such investments will soon be stranded assets, a blot on the landscape and a blight on investment portfolios.”
From The Verge ● Apr. 4, 2022
But like Bastion itself, the detention facility Britain has erected within its walls has become a blot on the landscape.
From Time ● May 30, 2013
This is a matter that is sometimes entirely neglected, rendering the buildings conspicuous, bare and ugly, a blot on the landscape.
From The Celtic Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 1, November 1875 A Monthly Periodical Devoted to the Literature, History, Antiquities, Folk Lore, Traditions, and the Social and Material Interests of the Celt at Home and Abroad. by Macbain, Alexander
