Sentence examples for blight a from inspiring English sources

Low or negative growth for a decade is enough to blight a whole generation.

Here, along a seamless stretch of small-city blight, a deserted storefront had held its own.

The two new American chestnuts take vastly different routes toward combating the blight, a parasitic fungus.

Late blight, a funguslike pathogen, is creeping into tomato fields early and with unusual vigor.

Chestnut blight, a plant disease caused by the fungus Cryphonectria parasitica (formerly known as Endothia parasitica).

Until that point, fondness for the traditional liturgy could blight a priest's career.

He didn't make it a ruin, an emblem of urban blight, a sign of the times.

David W. Blight, a professor of history at Yale, is writing a biography of Frederick Douglass.

Before Charlottesville, David Blight, a Yale historian, was already planning a conference in November on "American Disunion, Then and Now".

"There is always a politics to public memorialization," said David Blight, a professor of American history at Yale University, who writes frequently about memorials.

"It could continue for a while longer yet," said Warren Blight, a market analyst with Fox-Pitt Kelton in Hong Kong.