Sentence examples for plague ran from inspiring English sources

Vampire myths link the monsters with contagions, and the plague ran rampant in Venice in 1576, killing as many as 50,000 people, nearly a third of the city, including famed Renaissance artist Titian.

A plague runs through the world, killing every male mammal, mysteriously and all at once — except for Yorick (and his capuchin monkey, Ampersand).

Here again Mr. Kushner's subject is the anxiety of tumultuous change, the kind that traumatizes and disorients a nation at those times when a plague runs amok, terrorists attack or a president is shot.

(In 1995, a woman in California came down with the plague after she ran over a squirrel with her power mower).

But the problems plaguing us run deeper.

Dr. Thompson went to an orthopedist about five years ago for knee pain that plagued him whenever he ran.

Still, it was awkward for Romney to play on the birther conspiracies that have plagued Barack Obama since he ran for president in 2008 and persisted even after he released his "long-form" birth certificate in 2011.

Alcoholism would be a running plague.

A boy and a girl, who meet in a field during a plague of doves, run away from home and for six years find refuge with a mannish pig rustler and her notorious husband.

His old habits continued to plague him, however, as he ran so far out that he had to make up too much ground in the stretch and lost by six lengths.

There have been others, too, most recently Nicholas de Jongh, whose play about the homophobic 1950s, Plague Over England (pictured above), ran in the West End; meanwhile, Dominic Cavendish produced a fine adaptation of George Orwell's Coming Up for Air.