Sentence examples for like a blight from inspiring English sources
"It was like a blight on their record.
"Without Nora, our town square would be like a blight on our town," the mayor said (he calls Boonsboro "Noraville").
As though with the mercury in its sphincter, immoble, by a leaf-coated pond a statue stands white like a blight of winter.
"Our civilisation is passing like a blight, daily growing heavier and more poisonous, over the whole face of the country," Morris wrote.
"They never wanted us here, so they ignored us, to make it make it look like a jungle, like a blight," he said.
Elizabeth, especially, is wrapped in a permanent sadness, which seems to have spread like a blight; her son is the unfortunate Paul, and her husband, a mathematician, is forever on the move, turning up at the family gathering just in time to punch Henri in the face and leave.
The Indians use expressions like "a blighter and a mountebank".
AMP and other initiatives like it are already a blight on the web, and they will be equally bad for email.
But the ripples from his injury compounded the farm's problems, like a crop blight.
For no obvious reason, the round patches of sandy soil interrupt the arid grassland, like a spreading blight on the land.
Paying out in this way seems to support protectionists' contention that trade is a blight on employment like no other.The four authors are aware of both these drawbacks.
