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
They were quite proud of it, and seemed to consider it rather as an acquisition than a plague spot.
From Greenwich Village by Cram, Allan G. (Allan Gilbert)
The mill is also on deeded land, and together they are a plague spot.
From The Forester's Daughter A Romance of the Bear-Tooth Range by Garland, Hamlin
