Sentence examples for the blights of from inspiring English sources

That, for purely financial reasons, he never went to university was one of the blights of his life.

In "The Savage Nation," he celebrates the death of an unnamed "beatnik" poet — in fact, it's Gregory Corso — whom he calls "one of the blights of the human race".

The result is a perfectly preserved town free of the blights of modern development: climb the 366 steps to the top of the belfry in the airy main square and, as its 47 bells chime, you can look down on a charming clutter of ancient roofs, turrets and towers - and no high rises.

The blights of urban poverty, surging crime rates, illegal immigration and homosexuality had yet to be invented.

It's the blight of England fans.

The region has, slowly, recovered from the blight of 1997-98.

The right of return would be better named the blight of return.

Even the sick have been healed; their disease was caused by the blight of dictatorship.

It's the blight of social media," she hisses when I raise the subject.

But the thing guaranteed to incense them more than anything else is the blight of the persistent, uninvited garden pest.

High-rise building, which fell out of favour after the blight of brutalist 1960s council estates, is seeing a revival.