Sentence examples for like a pox from inspiring English sources
Much of the plant's chemical refuse was put into fifty-five-gallon drums, which, Fagin writes, "proliferated like a pox".
But that approach would involve redisturbing all the long-lived nuclear debris, whose numerous graves now mark the Chernobyl fields like a pox.
"The pasture here used to be so green and rich," said Ms. Tse, 46, waving toward a tattered landscape of anemic grasses, weeds and dirt among which dunes have erupted like a pox.
In Park Slope, at 99¢ Plus Bazar, where everything once cost 99 cents, more and more little "1" numerals are appearing on price stickers, spreading from shelf to shelf like a pox.
Type the words into Google with that punch-sink feeling in your stomach, with your heart racing, sweat beading, with tattoos of anchors spreading up your forearms like a pox: "Am … I … a … hipster?" Once you are, there is no going back.
The New Yorker, July 4 , 1931P. 49 The realization, early in May, that if the child Phyllis does not this year spend a couple of rousing months at one of the camps which have broken out like a pox on the New England States, she will be definitely classed as underprivileged.
Comments on Web sites like Facebook about the blackout conveyed a "pox on both your houses" reaction.
