Sentence examples for coming scourge from inspiring English sources
It was 1996, and on the Eastern Shore of Maryland everyone — farmers, gardeners, even people who simply cared deeply for their pansies and peonies — feared the coming scourge, a repetition of the eighth plague of Exodus, when God sent locusts to "cover the face of the earth".
Then you have the ideological fanatics like CNBC's Larry Kudlow, whose rah-rah mantra is "drill, drill, drill" as the antidote to the doubling of oil prices and the coming scourge of inflation.
When that was stripped away, out came a scourge of "ethnic cleansing" of Bosnian and Kosovar Muslims by Orthodox Serbs.
With that, comes the scourge of drugs and guns and gangs.
Calling marijuana a "scourge coming to America," Howard helped lead the movement against the drug in Montana.
The scourge came upon us rather quietly.
As Cyril Connolly put it: "Decay along with me, the worst is yet to be". Postlethwaite is a powerful presence – the violent Scouse father in Terence Davies's Distant Voices, Still Lives, the earthly spokesman of the unspeakable Keyser Soze in The Usual Suspects, the Yorkshire socialist come south to scourge the lily-livered London liberals in Brassed Off.
Or: North Korea deployed a brain-damaging chemical weapon that made everyone in the United States, or at least everyone in L.A., an idiot, except for a few people who were on a boat the day the scourge came, but the idiots, who are otherwise remarkably sweet, round up and kill those people, out of fear.
Now, I'm saddened to say that chubby puppies are no longer alone when it comes to the scourge of animal kingdom obesity.
This fall, Governor Jerry Brown signed into law a new statute that should be a game-changer when it comes to the scourge of wage theft in the nation's largest state.
Obviously, such a sensible path is way too much to be hoped for because what remains of the political Left has thrown in the towel on the Warfare State and foreign military adventurism; when it comes to the scourge of killing and violence, it has effectively retreated to its feckless campaign against guns to rally the troops and raise the political loot.
