Sentence examples for a blight on a from inspiring English sources

"It's a blight on a real up-and-coming block," Mr. Melven said.

Mark Waite "Hate the dreadful Howard shopping centre: a blight on a previously pleasant town and contrary to the spirit of the garden city".

To show the Fillmore was not a blight on a fine neighborhood, Mr. Coblentz had a friend stake out a hotel across the street known to be a house of ill repute.

It's truly sad — and a blight on a nation that ends its Pledge of Allegiance with the words "justice for all" — that providers of free legal representation to poor people in noncriminal cases are turning away more people than they help.

Jones called single use bags a "blight on our landscape" and a "waste of natural resources".

It is a blight on Westchester to have a city consistently in the news for such an odious activity.

According to Crowe, pigeons are a blight on touring bands and large venues, a hidden menace lurking in the rafters.

Corruption is a blight on infrastructure projects.

After he left the prison system, he declared his opposition to capital punishment as "a blight on our society" and a failure as a form of sanction.

Some commentators have asked why it has to be so huge, complaining that it will be a monstrosity, and a blight on the countryside.

Rotterdam's, I had been told, was a blight on the city, and a source of contention facing the new city council.