scourge

How To Use scourge In A Sentence

• The rage and the disappointment of the admiral were beyond all bounds; what to him was the value of the capture of Aisa, of the Turkish alcaid, of the ten thousand of the baser sort; nay, what to him was the value of "Africa" itself when once again like a mocking spirit Dragut had glided beyond the sea horizon to devastate, to plunder, and to slay once more, the scourge and the menace of Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean
• Washington, who believed liquor a particular scourge among blacks, sent felicitations. LAST CALL
• No longer the torch-bearer of iconoclasm, the scourge of intellectual hypocrisy, I had become instead mere target practice for Banner Wavers Anonymous.
• Its only scourge - heavy lorries - rumbling through its streets, polluting the environment and damaging historic buildings.
• It is a scourge to a sinful land; as once it was for the destruction of the whole world, so it is now often for the correction or discipline of some parts of it, by hindering seedness and harvest, raising the waters, and damaging the fruits. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
• With new efforts to try to manage this killer disease it is important that nations begin tackling some of the problems that fuel the scourge.
• If we raise this money now, we will be preventing future generations from suffering this age-old scourge.
• In countries afflicted by epidemics and pandemics like malaria and tuberculosis, growth and development will be threatened until these scourges can be contained.
• This must change if we are to tackle this scourge on our streets. The Sun
• After the scourge of war came the scourge of disease.