Sentence examples for become a scourge from inspiring English sources
AIDS had yet to become a scourge.
Throughout the border state of Punjab, whether in villages or cities, drugs have become a scourge.
It's easy to giggle at the folly of the garden bridge, but this wilting parsley has become a scourge.
IN THE GRIP OF ADDICTION Throughout the Indian border state of Punjab, drugs have become a scourge: opium is prevalent, refined as heroin or other illegal substances.
In Tehelka, Baba Umar writes of a "strange affliction" that has become a scourge for a village in the Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir State.
With his guns, Cho didn't have to play the role of the silent, struggling student anymore; he could become a scourge.
Ms. Meinhof, a onetime journalist, became a scourge to German authorities after she and a comrade, Andreas Baader, founded a radical guerrilla group known as the Red Army Faction.
The city's hospitals became beacons of progress, but also created a market for bodysnatching, as corpses were bought and sold for scientific research.Alcoholism became a scourge in the Irish enclave of St Giles to the north.
The most surprising part of "A Health Danger From a Needle Becomes a Scourge Behind Bars" (front page, Aug. 6) was the idea that most inmates contracted hepatitis C through intravenous drug use before they entered prison.
I spent over 40 years working in large organizations, and at first I found the performance reviews an annoyance; over the years they became a scourge.
