plague spot
Example Sentences
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“This is a plague spot, infecting the entire community,” complained William Miller Bowen, a former City Councilman who taught law classes.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 22, 2023
Long before Waksman began his work on soil, scientists had noted that if a diseased body is buried, the point of burial does not become a plague spot.
From Time Magazine Archive
He visited a colony of Catholic lepers alone, his guides dreading the plague spot.
From Time Magazine Archive
You have permitted a General Practice Patrol ship to approach a potentially dangerous plague spot without any notification of higher authorities.
From Star Surgeon by Nourse, Alan Edward
The press, with honorable and noble exceptions, wink at this great plague spot, while loudly crying for laws to correct comparatively harmless evils.
From The Arena Volume 4, No. 24, November, 1891 by Flower, B. O. (Benjamin Orange)
