PLAGUE in a Sentence

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47 example sentences for PLAGUE, such as:

1. Famine plagued a score of nations.
2. Please one's eye and plague one's heart.
3. The population was decimated by a plague.
4. We can all plague and punish one another.
5. The city is under threat from a plague of rats.

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 Meanings and Examples of PLAGUE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
plague
 n.  epidemic disease with a high death rate; annoyance
Classic Sentence: (32 in 3 pages)
1  Scarlett thought despairingly that a plague of locusts would be more welcome.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
2  Even the Yankees admitted that it was a plague spot and should be wiped out, but they took no steps in this direction.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
3  Carol crept to her room, sat with hands curled tight together as she listened to a plague of voices.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
4  It may well be conceived, what an unsavory odor such a mass must exhale; worse than an Assyrian city in the plague, when the living are incompetent to bury the departed.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 91. The Pequod Meets The Rose-Bud.
5  Some thinking they would catch the plague, dipped oakum in coal-tar, and at intervals held it to their nostrils.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 91. The Pequod Meets The Rose-Bud.
6  I don't know, I'm sure, except for a plague; they are the plague of my life.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
7  Scarcely was I sold, than the plague which had made the tour of Africa, Asia, and Europe, broke out with great malignancy in Algiers.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XII
8  "To plague us to death," answered Martin.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XXI
9  Their putrescence is evident, their stagnation is unhealthy, their fermentation infects people with fever, and etiolates them; their multiplication becomes a plague of Egypt.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—ON WHAT CONDITIONS ONE CAN RESPECT THE PAST
10  For the Gillenormands, Pontmercy was a man afflicted with the plague.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—ONE OF THE RED SPECTRES OF THAT EPOCH
11  The insurgents become noxious, infected with the plague.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XX—THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE N...
12  I don't mean to plague you and will bear it like a man, but I do wish it was all settled.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
13  We can all plague and punish one another.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
14  Linton had slid from his seat on to the hearthstone, and lay writhing in the mere perverseness of an indulged plague of a child, determined to be as grievous and harassing as it can.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
15  You have politics, of course; and it would be too bad to plague you with the names of people and parties that fill up my time.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
Example Sentence:
1  I love you like a god of plague and why I treat you like a lover.
2  Please one's eye and plague one's heart.
3  I'm not a fan of parties - in fact I avoid them like the plague.
4  The plague was greatly feared in the Middle Ages.
5  The population was decimated by a plague.
6  The city is under threat from a plague of rats.
7  This research tells us the ravages of the plague that swept through Europe in the mid 14th century.
8  They feared the plague and regarded it as a deadly scourge.
9  His administration was plagued by one petty scandal after another, cumulatively very damaging.
10  He is plagued by demons which go back to his traumatic childhood.
11  The town has been plagued by armed thugs who have looted food supplies and terrorized the population.
12  Famine plagued a score of nations.
13  If you're plagued by indigestion, take garlic supplements after lunch and after dinner.
14  About the claim that plagued the palace, there was a categorical denial, alongside a string of reasons why her story did not add up.
15  Financial problems have been plaguing their new business partners.