Sentence examples for blight us from inspiring English sources

Why, oh why then, with a bit of scheduling space freed up for non-culinary purposes, would the sofa gods blight us all by tossing two more cooking shows into the mix?

The Mackenzie River and the Great Slave Lake figure in the tales of Jack London but, the modern world being the modern world, Yellowknife now stars in one of the endless plagues of reality TV shows that now blight us - Ice Road Truckers.

I'm glad that the direct dictatorship that blighted us all is gone.

But all condescension aside, why have the showbiz gods blighted us with this dude for over a decade now?

Young black children still take their own lives in shocking numbers: a blight on us all.

Bowers' reference to the internment camps is in contrast to that of Governor Jay Inslee of Washington, who on Wednesday morning cited them as a blight in US history in an interview with NPR's Steve Inskeep.

The movie, Mr. Blight said, shows us Lincoln the great abolitionist, rather than the "much messier" and more conflicted pre-1863 Lincoln who believed, among other things, that African-Americans should ultimately be "repatriated" to Africa.

Additionally, the comparative sequence analyses for the chestnut blight QTLs enabled us to define in high resolution the degree of gene preservation within the two chestnut QTLs that were previously found to overlap with mapped QTLs for powdery mildew resistance in peach, as reported by [ 8], suggesting that these regions might be important in generalized resistance to fungal pathogens.

Rabbits are another rural problem, but a blight for those of us who have them.

"It has really helped us limit blight, and rebuilt some of our poorest neighborhoods," Mayor Pawlowski said.

Such an exercise in hedonism seems hardly worth noting, except, oddly, that it produced "menacing results... all around," as if it were hippies who brought us urban blight, racial unrest, Vietnam and Watergate.