How To Use Blighted In A Sentence

The apple trees were blighted by frost.
Almost all areas are blighted by misbehaving youths at night. Times, Sunday Times
All over Europe, the fringes of suburbia are blighted by the dreary apparatus of industry - undecorated sheds and dour offices in glum lots girdled by sterile acres of parking.
Twitter in an attempt to exert discipline at the end of a year that has been blighted by rebellion within the side and allegations of match-fixing. Times, Sunday Times
She was blighted by respiratory illness and memory blanks. Times, Sunday Times

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She was blighted by respiratory illness and memory blanks. Times, Sunday Times
In Trainspotting, Begbie's blood boils at the backpackers who see the sights of the city centre but are blind to the blighted landscape of its surrounding schemes.
The canola crop, is blighted; there is a physical presence.
The remainder is blighted by alternating self-flagellation, self-justification and unwarranted extrapolation.
Not only is it blighted by foul conditions but it also bears no relation to the original concept of a May Day celebration. Times, Sunday Times
A brain drain blighted the Labour governments of the 1970s, as high earners were driven abroad by penal income-tax rates.
Should they be blighted for life, and have their employment prospects limited? Times, Sunday Times
But now the hoodoo that has blighted City all season has hit again.
Victims often have their lives blighted for good by physical and mental injuries. The Sun
Or seated opposite the neighbour whose leylandii have blighted your rhododendrons for years. Times, Sunday Times
An embarrassing blunder nearly blighted his career before it got off the ground.
He has seen first hand the tragedy of lives blighted by unemployment. The Sun
After a difficult two months, blighted by injuries to her back and thigh, the tall Californian has looked tetchy and out of sorts this week.
The two trees with the smoky trunks were blighted high up, and the withered branches domineered above the leaves, Through the whole building white had turned yellow, yellow nearly black; and since the time when the poor lady died, it had slowly become a dark gap in the long monotonous street. Dombey and Son
The next day, they moved a couple of hundred yards downriver to a blighted spit of land below the Burlington Northern bridge.
She is 22 but her voice is more blighted bud than rose, an emotional instrument that conveys innocence broken on the wheel of restless craving.
Her life was blighted by an unhappy marriage.
Moreover, sometimes an area becomes blighted almost overnight, so that what was a desirable home becomes unsaleable and again the price plummets.
The Open can be blessed or blighted by meteorological conditions. Times, Sunday Times
A player of mercurial brilliance, his career has been blighted by injury. Times, Sunday Times
After another blast of the wretched conditions that have blighted this season's major championships, a motley crew of contenders have lined up at Hazeltine to exploit the uncertainty.
More than that, it has the potential to transform what has become a blighted city. Times, Sunday Times
While he is alive, the shadow that has blighted my life will still be there. The Sun
Civilisation made affluent women sick, while poverty and sin blighted the parturient poor.
The city had larded the blighted 16-acre site with subsidies, but no developer wanted to take on risk of such magnitude in a borough that hadn't seen a new office tower in a quarter-century.
Entire ferns may be blighted by late summer in a wet year.
Their father said if they ever tasted this insipid foreign stuff instead of merely reading about it in those blighted Blyton books, they would realize how amazing was their mother's curry-rice and khichri-saas and pumpkin buryani and dhansak. Archive 2006-06-01
The law may soon come to the aid of householders who claim their lives are blighted by neighbours' high hedges.
According to the rare reports that emerge from inside, the crumbling cities and towns are blighted by poverty and despair. The Sun
blighted urban districts
That stadium was blighted by cost overruns and delays. Times, Sunday Times
Meantime, the young man's life is blighted, his name dishonoured, his family plunged into unspeakable grief. Corporal Cameron of the North West Mounted Police; a tale of the Macleod trail
Residents of a street blighted by a stream of juggernauts have given a slightly disbelieving welcome to Swindon Council's decision to close the road to through traffic.
The Glenpark side are one of several teams whose campaign has thus far been blighted by a total washout.
Or will it trigger a stagflationary wage-price spiral, the likes of which blighted the 1970s? Slippery Slope for EU After Oil Shock
That stadium was blighted by cost overruns and delays. Times, Sunday Times
While he is alive, the shadow that has blighted my life will still be there. The Sun
Their recent lethargy and incompetence have blighted the international game. Times, Sunday Times
For those of us already blighted by insomnia, a supermoon really isn't that super. Times, Sunday Times
It is a street in an expanding urban area which had been blighted by heavy wagons transporting materials and finished products for a large and noisy industrial operation.
France might, for example, have continued with the revanchist attitude to Germany which blighted the continent in the inter-war period.
I had to cast my mind back 30 years to the incident that blighted my life. The Sun
Still scrounging for food and blighted by diseases like kala-azar and tuberculosis, many live as bonded labourers, and face acute food shortage and starvation every year.
Alcohol abuse and alcoholism have blighted generations and all social classes, regardless of gender. Times, Sunday Times
Rice prices are soaring because drought has blighted the Basmati crop.
The Open can be blessed or blighted by meteorological conditions. Times, Sunday Times
He grew up under the old Communist system, in a blighted Czechoslovakia whose ambitions for independence had been crushed beneath Soviet tank tracks.
By law the program is supposed to help blighted areas that wouldn't attract sufficient economic development "without the benefits of tax increment financing" - that is, areas that won't improve unless the city ponies up to get rid of "dilapidation," vacant buildings, and environmental problems and bolster infrastructure. Chicago Reader
Almost all areas are blighted by misbehaving youths at night. Times, Sunday Times
radio, afraid that she might accidently come upon that ranting, hysterical voice which had blighted their lives. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
Here we speak to families who have been blighted by the disease - and come back fighting. The Sun
And a resident who fears his life will be blighted by the development says he has been let down by a faint-hearted planning committee.
He has seen first hand the tragedy of lives blighted by unemployment. The Sun
Panorama's allegations of corruption in horse racing are just another twist in a long line of scandals which have blighted the sport.
What appears to be the routine invasion of the privacy of ordinary people already blighted by tragedy is a particularly ruthless and cold-hearted method of harvesting copy. Murdoch's malign influence must die with the News of the World | Observer editorial
Only when their crop of vines is blighted can they make Sauternes, one of the most glorious sweet wines in the world, which thrives on rot and fungal decay.
If visualisation has been a big part of England's preparations in the recent rain-blighted fortnight, then the sight of a typically flat, dry, grassless pitch will have given many of the squad the heebie-jeebies.
As foul weather blighted Manchester's New Year celebrations, people who had not bought tickets turned up at the hotel's doors.
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His chances have been blighted by a catalogue of injury woes and financial difficulties.
He personally led the last expedition to the Blighted Isle and reclaimed it from the Dark Elves.
The disease blighted oaks and elms.
The Codes might need some streamling or tweaking, but they ALREADY have the tools to address blighted properties. Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » All Your Base Are Belong To Us
peonies can be blighted by the laying on of a finger
He attempted that in 2002 but his preparations had been blighted by injury and he was pulled up after just two flights.
the blighted neighborhood underwent a total makeover
The attacks are the latest in a long list of violent crimes to have blighted Yorkshire in the last month.
The only neighborhood featuring a strip club that I would consider to be even approaching 'blighted' is Victory Drive in Columbus, GA. Sound Politics: Why Is Seattle Such a Wuss About Strip Clubs?
Earlier in the year, there were signs that maybe there was a recovery, but further losses of confidence around US accounting scandals have blighted the green shoots.
Victims often have their lives blighted for good by physical and mental injuries. The Sun
According to the rare reports that emerge from inside, the crumbling cities and towns are blighted by poverty and despair. The Sun
Truancy is a passport to a life blighted by wasted opportunities, unemployment and even crime.
According to the rare reports that emerge from inside, the crumbling cities and towns are blighted by poverty and despair. The Sun
Buncan could not find a spot of mud, a chunk of decaying plaster, or a blighted structure anywhere as they passed through the unbarred gate into the city proper. The Lives of Felix Gunderson
The Open can be blessed or blighted by meteorological conditions. Times, Sunday Times
Moreover, sometimes an area becomes blighted almost overnight, so that what was a desirable home becomes unsaleable and again the price plummets.
Here we speak to families who have been blighted by the disease - and come back fighting. The Sun
She was blighted by respiratory illness and memory blanks. Times, Sunday Times
It begins in a corner of London blighted by poverty and despair. Times, Sunday Times
A player of mercurial brilliance, his career has been blighted by injury. Times, Sunday Times
The moonlight that shone on the dead face seemed to fall on it through that brighter spot in the head of the middle light; it was as if the nebuly coat had blighted the very life out of the man who lay so still upon the floor. The Nebuly Coat
The already blighted city has been hit hard by the current economic crisis, with one in five houses standing empty. Times, Sunday Times
It begins in a corner of London blighted by poverty and despair. Times, Sunday Times
More than that, it has the potential to transform what has become a blighted city. Times, Sunday Times
I had to cast my mind back 30 years to the incident that blighted my life. The Sun
It is small, extremely volatile and blighted by illiquidity. Times, Sunday Times
They have lived many lives together, blighted by a terrible curse. The Sun
For some reason, Marlin continues to use the same old semi-buckhorn rear sight that has blighted its rifles for many decades. Rifle Review: Petzal Tests the Marlin .338 MXLR
Not only is it blighted by foul conditions but it also bears no relation to the original concept of a May Day celebration. Times, Sunday Times
The case was blighted by false information given by officials. Times, Sunday Times
The atmosphere was being poisoned, every green thing blighted, and every stream fouled with chemical fumes and waste.
Your academic career is blighted, your good name is tarnished, you may find it hard to secure a place at any decent establishment elsewhere.
Cheap Chinese steel imports and high energy costs have blighted the industry. The Sun
Even in genuinely “blighted” areas, condemnation is extremely problematic, often leading to the expulsion of poor and minority populations to benefit more influential groups. The Volokh Conspiracy » Is the Debate Over Eminent Domain “Empty and Incoherent”?
They found such seclusion most satisfactory on these turbulent days of movement, except for occasional visits to see that no blighted trooper was trying to beat a fellow for his "possie" in the hold. The Tale of a Trooper
They should not be blighted by the connivings of universities at the sharp end of the marketisation of education. Times, Sunday Times
In this Pythonesque vision, Lady Macbeth is a vampish sexpot, while her husband is a dim-witted cuckold, less blighted by fatal flaws than fatal dorkiness.
His father's life was blighted by trauma he'd suffered during military service in the Second World War.
The already blighted city has been hit hard by the current economic crisis, with one in five houses standing empty. Times, Sunday Times
We have a generation blighted by youth unemployment. The Sun
She was blighted by respiratory illness and memory blanks. Times, Sunday Times
Victims often have their lives blighted for good by physical and mental injuries. The Sun
The case was blighted by false information given by officials. Times, Sunday Times
The blighted designation paves the way for the town to condemn and acquire 29 small businesses including a discount store, a bar-restaurant and a mini mart. Undefined
If the inarches become blighted, they can themselves be inarched, as shown. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 43rd Annual Meeting Rockport, Indiana, August 25, 26 and 27, 1952
Essentially, Tax Increment Financing has historically been used as a way to generate new development in blighted areas, most often in the urban core. Forest City Covington and SunCal Early Favorites for Corporate Welfare IRBIE Awards
The mind-numbing natural disaster which has killed thousands and blighted the lives of millions in South Asia will not fade from our consciousness for some time yet.
She was blighted by respiratory illness and memory blanks. Times, Sunday Times
Marriage problems have also blighted his year and, after many sleepless nights deliberating how to make his four wildcard picks, a task he described as nigh on impossible, next Friday cannot come soon enough for Montgomerie. Latest News - Yahoo!7 News
Should they be blighted for life, and have their employment prospects limited? Times, Sunday Times
It begins in a corner of London blighted by poverty and despair. Times, Sunday Times
For many years he was a compulsive gambler, and a very unsuccessful one at that, and while there is no evidence that his life was overly blighted by the addiction, he did run up fairly substantial debts to several bookmakers in Glasgow.
She laid a malison on my chauffeur's potatoes -- I had one once -- and (as he told me) blighted the year's crop. In a Green Shade A Country Commentary
The name Rea Silvia is ancient, but Rea is only a surname: _rea femmina_ often occurs in Boccaccio, and is used to this day in Tuscany to designate a woman whose reputation is blighted; a priestess Rea is described by Vergil as having been overpowered by Hercules. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01
A broken leg blighted her chances of winning the championship.
Fans' fury as the BBC sacrifices Formula One to save Wimbledon Corporation decides to give up half of their races from 2012 7,000 more jobs cut in MoD war on overspending Defence chiefs axed another 7,000 civilian jobs in a massacre of the so-called brolly brigade Police helicopter noise blights our lives, say West End residents West End residents say their lives are being blighted by the near constant drone of police helicopters MPs at loggerheads over move to cut Olympia Tube services Two London MPs at odds over plans to stop running Tube services to and from Kensington Olympia on weekdays to free up trains, track and... Evening Standard - Home
Although I can imagine it is hard to live life blighted by such small stature, it is his littleness that has actually got him where he is today.
She was blighted by respiratory illness and memory blanks. Times, Sunday Times
A slight man, round-faced with pale blue eyes, he has the usual jutting lower lip and chin of the blighted Hapsburgs. Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer
It was midafternoon, the air blighted of moisture; heat hazes wavered over the placid waters of the Yamuna, and Jai Singh sat under the shade of the tamarind at the very edge of his property, the farman on his lap. Shadow Princess
‘It is a scandal that Scotland's schools are blighted by violence,’ he said.
Over the years some branches of the family have been blighted by a congenital heart defect but Mrs Pike's illness was coincidental, say friends, because she was adopted.
The stack of the blighted rootstock will soon felt together.
But as she explains to Jan Goodwin, her childhood was blighted by polio - an experience that filled her with fighting spirit
Soon the leaves die, turning a dark, blighted gray and drooping limply from the branches like hung corpses.
Our urban areas are squalid and tawdry; what remains of our countryside is blighted by wind farms, phone masts and aircraft noise.
The move was precipitated by a slowdown in the housing market in the company's traditional north-east of Scotland heartland, which has been blighted by uncertainty in the oil industry.
We have a generation blighted by youth unemployment. The Sun
For example, the piece on adultery dealt with the son of an adulterer… and on how much the sins of the father had blighted his life and his relationships with other people.
I had to cast my mind back 30 years to the incident that blighted my life. The Sun
Should they be blighted for life, and have their employment prospects limited? Times, Sunday Times
But Dudgeon's career at Oakwell was blighted by a bout of post-viral syndrome which prevented him from making a League appearance for the Tykes.
She was blighted by respiratory illness and memory blanks. Times, Sunday Times
He continued to tour and record but in recent decades his career was blighted by ill health, which led to long periods away from the limelight. Times, Sunday Times
While he is alive, the shadow that has blighted my life will still be there. The Sun
The tour has been blighted by a string of misfortunes.
Urban blight is cumulative and self-reinforcing; blighted buildings cast a pall on land around them, discourage upkeep, and stifle renewal.
Cloacal exstrophy variants: Can blighted conjoined twinning play a role? Publications of the Urology Division
We may praise God as much for small mercies," said Martin pleasantly, "as for great ones; and trees must not be blighted that were appointed to fruit. Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard
a blighted rose
Bruce Willis has revealed he had to see a therapist when he was younger - to help overcome a speech impediment that could have blighted his acting career..
In a life still blighted by his sick, domineering mother he wears his disappointment like a shabby old anorak. Times, Sunday Times
Although Friday was cloudy and blighted with intermittent rain, the weather proved kind on Saturday with sunshine and warmth drawing crowds to the event.
If we were to concede that an area is indeed blighted, and the state needs a role in fixing the problem, the state could take the land, therefore assembling the parcel into a potentially more valuable one, and then offer it to the highest bidder. The Volokh Conspiracy » Is the Debate Over Eminent Domain “Empty and Incoherent”?
The dry spell blighted the crops.
For want of amusement I decided to have a look-see at what sort of searches were luring you poor blighted souls my way.
Many of those exceptional individuals who retained the ‘photographic’ or eidetic memory that is common in children but rare in adults, have had their lives blighted by their inability to forget unimportant details.
A player of mercurial brilliance, his career has been blighted by injury. Times, Sunday Times
The cold streets will glitter under the bright lights and the holiday chez Blair will be rosy, jolly and self-satisfied, blighted only by the possibility that young Euan might overdo it with the sherry.
‘We are not prepared to live in an area that is blighted by rubbish and dog poo,’ said Coun Ann Scaife.
With their last hope of ever getting back their hard earned money blighted, they abandoned themselves to despair and thoughts of death.
Soft, sloppy goals caused by panicky clearances and unfocused defending have blighted their play.
Life may be regarded as an austere struggle, blighted by fate, where only the rich and the lucky fare well.
This funding will support a continuum of housing strategies, from permanent supportive housing for people with disabilities who have been living on our streets, to educational programs that prepare families to become homeowners, to stepped-up enforcement of housing health and safety codes in blighted neighborhoods. Portland
In 1934 Braddock's once successful boxing career was blighted by broken hands.
Is it any wonder that our town and city centres are blighted with multitudes of empty shops?
Not only is it blighted by foul conditions but it also bears no relation to the original concept of a May Day celebration. Times, Sunday Times
Asylum seekers are being praised for helping to breathe new life into a rundown part of a South Yorkshire town that was once blighted by drugs and vice.
The world is blighted by drought and famine. Times, Sunday Times
Klee was one of the many acclaimed modernist painters whose career was blighted by Nazi disapproval.
Blighted potato haulms can be cut off and burnt, or placed in the rubbish.
But the evidence that the family was blighted already seemed abundantly clear.
It was even supposed that he took bypast circumstances much to heart; and if a childhood passed at the side of a saturnine mother, under foreboding of coming evil, and a manhood drenched and blighted by the pitiless descent of the storm, could painfully impress the mind, his probably was impressed in no golden characters. Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte
Outside the core, it continues to be blighted by an air of neglect.
The already blighted city has been hit hard by the current economic crisis, with one in five houses standing empty. Times, Sunday Times
The case was blighted by false information given by officials. Times, Sunday Times
What they do in "blighted inner city neighborhoods" is displace the people who have historically lived there. Forest City Covington and SunCal Early Favorites for Corporate Welfare IRBIE Awards
The next term will be blighted by all that flows from that.
I can barely think of any main road in our city which is not blighted by accidents and fatalities.
His career has been blighted by injuries.
In his later articles, Brown increasingly referred to the urban problems of slums, blighted areas and suburban sprawl.
Here we speak to families who have been blighted by the disease - and come back fighting. The Sun
Its skyline is blighted by lots of stacks from heavy industry, including oil and nickel refineries.
Beyond the limo's one-way windows, the season's first tropical storm, Allison, was blowing sea-green clouds and rain across a wide street lined with blighted-looking shops and slum dwellings.
Almost all areas are blighted by misbehaving youths at night. Times, Sunday Times
For returning officers across East Lancashire, one of the primary goals of next month's national and county council elections is to restore faith in a process blighted by scandal in recent years.
They even want to cross I-405 into the Lair Hill Historic District, call it "blighted" and extend the campus south and build student housing with all kinds of taxpayer subsidies. The affordable-Pearl-District-liquor-store tax break (Jack Bog's Blog)
There appears to be a visceral force which galvanizes this rash gambler: upon seeing a car far off into the curve-blighted highway, the machismo gene must kick in and a huge invisible weight inexplicably is poured into his right foot, powering the car ahead at great speed. Free riding the roads of Mexico
The former Italy striker, known as ‘The Divine Ponytail’ due to his hairstyle and Buddhist beliefs, has had a career blighted by injury.
He continued to tour and record but in recent decades his career was blighted by ill health, which led to long periods away from the limelight. Times, Sunday Times
Cheap Chinese steel imports and high energy costs have blighted the industry. The Sun
The Open can be blessed or blighted by meteorological conditions. Times, Sunday Times
We have a generation blighted by youth unemployment. The Sun
It took half a century for the inventor of thalidomide, the drug which blighted so many lives, to make its partial apology last week. Times, Sunday Times
The 2300 block of Park Avenue, three blocks north of Temple University, is so blighted it ought to be dynamited.
Ben QuinnLewisham, a suburb of south-east London blighted by serious deprivation and unsympathetic post-war planning which turned much of its centre into a one-way gyratory, experienced a few hours of trouble on Monday although it was quiet after several hours. London riots: conflagration and carnage in the capital and beyond
The atmosphere was being poisoned, every green thing blighted, and every stream fouled with chemical fumes and waste.
He has seen first hand the tragedy of lives blighted by unemployment. The Sun
There would be a brisk exit from the blighted city, with a car towing an assortment of furniture, tools, pets and sometimes children.
More officers on the ground may help curb antisocial behaviour on Saturday nights and in blighted housing estates, but this is a problem with several deep roots – poverty, truancy, failure of parental control, the lack of things to do and chaos and violence in the home. We can't just leave it to the police – we must all tackle antisocial behaviour
He continued to tour and record but in recent decades his career was blighted by ill health, which led to long periods away from the limelight. Times, Sunday Times
More than that, it has the potential to transform what has become a blighted city. Times, Sunday Times
Has cloning destroyed cities or blighted the lives of millions?
A player of mercurial brilliance, his career has been blighted by injury. Times, Sunday Times
He will be able to compete again from December, but his athletics career will be blighted forever more and he knows already that he will never be able to compete at an Olympic Games.

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