blackleg

How To Use blackleg In A Sentence

• In response to his letter, I wholeheartedly disagree with his comments about ‘scabs’, ‘non-strikers’ and ‘blacklegs’.
• 'Whom, when we sporting gentlemen are absent, you call blacklegs, rooks, Grecians, and other pleasant epithets. The Adventures of Hugh Trevor
• She repeated, as if she answered an objector: "A sort of blacklegging. Ann Veronica: A Modern Love Story
• They blacklegged in the last strike.
• After the wet start, and now an increasingly wet end to the season, blackleg is being found more widely, and as soils approach field capacity more rots will appear.
• His fire crews are at one another's throats because of one man blacklegging in the firemen's strike and another not blacklegging?
• The virtual elimination of diseases such as pulpy kidney, blackleg, braxy and lamb dysentery back in the 1940's is a prime example of the pioneering work that was carried out at our research institute.
• They sang the Red Flag and the Marseillaise, followed by three cheers for the social revolution and three boos for royalty and blacklegs.
• The party blacklegged on the 1980 general strike, which was broken by the government.
• The disease, a bacterial infection transmitted to humans by the bite of infected blacklegged or deer ticks, can spread to joints, the heart and the nervous system, the Centers for Disease Prevention and Control says. USATODAY.com News - Top Stories