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349 examples of Plague in a sentence

And the mosquito has killed more humans than wars and plague.
The bubonic plague in Europe, in the Middle Ages, killed one out of four Europeans.
When you read the biblical plague of boils, that was smallpox.
Prospera: I will plague them all, even to roaring.
And besides that, it reminded me of ancient epidemics that were previously completely misunderstood because the science hadn't been there before, epidemics of plague or typhus or leprosy, where the prevalent ideas were that there were bad people or bad humors or bad air, and widows were dragged around the moat, and dungeons were part of the solution.
She says that "there's this plague of sameness which is killing the human joy," and I couldn't agree with her more.
We're out there feeding plague vaccine to ferrets.
Because in the lives of the poor, it just descends like a plague and it destroys everything.
Born Niels Stensen in 1638 Denmark, son of a goldsmith, he was a sickly kid whose school chums died of plague.
In order to create sustainable, long-term economic growth and solve the challenges and social ills that continue to plague the world today, we're going to have to be more broad-minded about what might work.
The virus is contained for now, but unless you can destroy it, the vents will soon open and unleash a deadly airborne plague.
We can map the patterns that occur in living systems, and figure out how to overcome the diseases that plague us.
Here we are using the same word to talk about love that we use to explain a plague of locusts.
Some called it the gay plague.
And if that's not enough, teens who skip out on sleep are at increased risk for a host of physical health problems that plague our country, including obesity, heart disease and diabetes.
It's the most common insect vector of diseases, not just Zika but dengue, Chikungunya, West Nile virus and that ancient plague, yellow fever.
You want to understand the plague and why one plague is bubonic and the other one is a different kind of plague and the other one is a different kind of plague?
Well, here's a map of the plague.
A plague had stricken the city, and he had nothing to treat them.
If I told you that there was a plague that was going to kill 15,000 Americans next year, you might be alarmed if you didn't find out it was the flu.
You know, in Surat after the 1994 plague, citizens there take pride in keeping their city one of the cleanest in the country.
It was likened to the plague.
In her interrogation of these questions, Tan speaks to anxieties that plague many immigrants, who often feel both alienated from their homeland and disconnected from their adopted country.
But look what happened in Europe after the plague: rising wages, land reform, technological innovation, birth of the middle class; and after that, forward-looking social movements like the Renaissance, and later the Enlightenment.
White Europeans were subject to the plague.
And when they were subject to the plague, most people didn't survive, but those who survived had a mutation on the CCR5 receptor.
It is the central psychological plague of humankind in the 21st century.
And the snowman went around murdering people, and avoiding blow dryers like the plague.
Unless you are a fan of Michelle Phiffer you should probably avoid this movie like the plague.
The costume drama scenes in the beginning were the sort of poorly done, stodgy things that used to plague historical drama 25 years ago.
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