blighting

Example Sentences

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Slavery shaped the Americas for four centuries, blighting the entire hemisphere.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 4, 2026

The 76-year-old retired state employee, former gun store owner and avid elk hunter from La Grande, Oregon, is on a mission to keep turbines and transmission towers from blighting the rural landscape.

From Salon • Aug. 17, 2025

Responding to the data, policing minister Dame Diana Johnson said the government "will not tolerate the criminality blighting our communities".

From BBC • Apr. 24, 2025

Next time you feel like littering, think of the bird you may harm and the beauty you are blighting.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 25, 2023

And whether from its fumes or from the blighting of our hopes, my husband began to suffer again from rheumatism, and at the same time the old bouts of fever began.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya