Sentence examples for a pox that from inspiring English sources

Drab, featureless and phallocratic is how Johnson described the rash of 27 tall buildings that Ken Livingstone had waved through, a pox that was fast threatening to turn London into "Dubai-on-Thames".

But in the fantasy worlds of Princess Mononoke and Game of Thrones, both diseases manifest themselves as a creeping pox that begins as a battle wound on the arm, gets concealed under a garment, and serves as a tangible memento mori throughout further adventuring.

Nothing can so much incite a colleague's displeasure as sending a mouse with some pox that decimates the guest mouse colony.

I had an obscenely serious case of chicken pox that quarantined me for two weeks.

According to the report, which did not give the family's name, the boy was taken to the University of Chicago Comer Children's Hospital on March 3. Dr. Madelyn Kahana, the chief of pediatric intensive care medicine at the hospital, said in an interview that the child had been covered with "mounds of pox" that reminded her of photos of bees swarming over beekeepers.

He will not have to experience the chicken pox that caught like wildfire in my middle school and caused a lot of discomfort to those unfortunate enough to have a serious case, with pox growing in their throats and eyes.

(One early report told of pox that caused victims to shed flesh "in pieces full of evil-smelling beast ies").

MANY baby boomers can vaguely recall the childhood bouts with croup or chicken pox that brought the friendly family doctor to the bedside.

Men were initiated, often by their fathers, into the complex world of prostitution, from the cheap to the glamorous – and into the perpetual fear of the pox that went with it.

"I don't see how it will be helpful to eliminate names like monkey pox that provide insights into natural hosts and potential sources of infection," he says.

It was almost like we were spreading some kind of virulent pox that was instantly contaminating.