How to use "scourge" in a sentence (2025)

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Heartwater is a tick-borne disease, which has been a scourge of South African livestock owners for over a hundred years.
To prevent the highly infectious scourge, Turner is vigilant about daily hoof cleaning and treatment with iodine.
While alcohol is the number one problem, the scourge of drugs is also placing increasing pressure on the centre and its 17 permanent staff.
In response to this serious social scourge the Ministry of Interior has issued an order to stop processing gun licenses.
In this way, public power will be misused and the society will suffer setbacks in fighting the social scourge of corruption.
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.
To be punished by the scourge of the seas was not a particularly happy thought.
The street is the latest in Swindon where normal life has been ruined by the scourge of anti-social behaviour.
If we raise this money now, we will be preventing future generations from suffering this age-old scourge.
Like every city, Sheffield suffers from the scourge of nuisance neighbours, but has taken a leading role in trying to address the problem.
He was largely responsible for the purging of the Moscow region and in 1938 and was transferred to the Ukraine to scourge the party there.
He continued to scourge the defence with two more fine points from play, although there was an element of doubt about the first one.
The plan unveiled yesterday envisions facelifts for nearly 200 stations and an all-out war on the scourge of scratchiti.
When road conditions became worse, juddering was transmitted through the steering column and scuttle shake, that scourge of open-tops, occurred.
The Secretary General has reminded us of the commitment made by our leaders during the Millennium Summit last year to eradicate this scourge.
It is also mercifully free of molehills, which are the scourge of our sandy garden.
It's an attack of poison ivy, teenage angst and the blues all rolled into one unscratchable scourge.
A thick layer of scourge slime ensured that no one was going in or out of the dining room.
Further north the scourge of tsetse fly, vector of the disease nagana, limited the use of cattle as draught.
Could it be that in just two years the scourge of bourgeois values is now entering the American mainstream?
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Examples from Classical Literature

When trachoma, the sickness of the eyes, was known as the scourge of the Sahara.
With some it may seem severe that God should chasten and scourge His children.
I do not know that the American concessionaires are driven by any such scourge.
The scourge had gone down on the night of the 7th, or the morning of the 8th, I never knew which.
He fled in fear the fatal scourge, seeking shelter, a sinful man, and entered in.
Represented as ithyphallic, with two tall plumes on his head, the right arm upraised and bearing a scourge.
Go to, sir, know yourself, or the master of the household shall make you know you are liable to the scourge as a malapert boy.
He used it as a whip with which to scourge any vagrant hopes that dared creep into his heart.
And it is this scourge, caused by the power of the serpent, which occasions the departure for ever from the paradisiacal region.
Here I was prepared to remove the drug scourge forever, and at a piddling cost.
Feeling she must have, and courage, or she would never have dared to have ridded herself of the scourge of her life.
Just about the same time the terrible scourge of rinderpest came down upon the land.
We must end the deadly scourge of domestic violence in our country.
I have a tough hide, that will bear knife or scourge as well as any boar's hide in my herd.
I am inclined to unfrock and scourge them sorely for their leasings.
Yes, stay-at-home mums are the new single mothers, the latest scourge of society, targeted for not being hardworking enough.
I never saw a studding-sail in any of the schooners, the scourge excepted.
Who could tell what new scourge this was that dogdom had to contend with?
Inquiry was made into the origin of the scourge, and by degrees various facts came out which excited public indignation in a high degree.
Nevertheless, the grey wolf, the stockman's scourge, was blamed.
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How to use "scourge" in a sentence (2025)

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