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
He visited a colony of Catholic lepers alone, his guides dreading the plague spot.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
A dark secret is a plague spot in the heart.
From Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author by Hentz, Caroline Lee
This, he knows too well, is the "plague spot," and if he examine his plants carefully, he will perhaps find that there is scarcely a plant which is not spotted.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 595, May 28, 1887 by Various
