How to Use blight in a Sentence

blight

1 of 2 noun

• By the 1960s, the blight had spread across the country.
  — Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson, Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2022
• This does not mean you shouldn’t be concerned about the blight.
  — Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 27 Aug. 2023
• My jasmine has some kind of blight that seems to be killing it.
  — oregonlive, 9 Jan. 2022
• The city, under state law, must bring in a third party to conduct the blight study.
  — cleveland, 8 Feb. 2022
• Adams pointed to an outbreak of blight among bur oaks across the Midwest.
  — Sarah Kaplan, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Aug. 2022
• If there are rust spots on the petals, the plant may be infected with Camellia petal blight.
  — Steve Bender, Southern Living, 28 Jan. 2024
• Twig blight can make the branches of the camellia necrotic and turn leaves from green to pale yellow.
  — Steve Bender, Southern Living, 28 Jan. 2024
• Since its establishment in 1979, the Khomeinist regime has been a curse on Iran and a blight on the world.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 20 Oct. 2022
• There are two distinct types of tomato blight—early blight and late blight.
  — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 May 2023
• Watch for aphids and early blight (Alternaria) on the potato leaves.
  — Jodi Bay, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Feb. 2023
• But in ‘95, there was an oleander blight and the disease spread quickly.
  — Sacramento Bee, 30 Jan. 2024
• The idea was to give downtown businesses a boost by removing signs of blight.
  — NBC News, 23 Jan. 2022
• Critics say the signs will distract drivers and create more blight.
  — Ryan Fonsecastaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 1 Feb. 2023
• To Jung, the assault on the Capitol was a blight on American democracy.
  — Greg Jaffe, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Jan. 2023
• Early blight affects the leaves and stems only, so the tomato fruits will be healthy and delicious.
  — Susan Brownstein, cleveland, 21 July 2022
• Fungal infections like these and blight infect the soil and destroy the tuber.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 15 June 2023
• The key is to lift the plant off the ground and encourage air circulation; the closer to the soil, the more likely the plant will be exposed to blight, rot, bugs—and, um, in NYC, rats.
  — Natasha Li Pickowicz, Bon Appétit, 3 Nov. 2022
• Fire blight resistant cultivars are the best way to prevent the disease.
  — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 June 2022
• Now that the blight is widespread, destruction is no longer necessary but there still is no cure.
  — Susan Brownstein, cleveland, 18 July 2023
• Removing all blight in the next four years has also been a promise the mayor made since winning his third term.
  — Dana Afana, Detroit Free Press, 10 Mar. 2022
• While vacant Kmarts can become a blight, many of them have been redeveloped in some way.
  — Sean McDonnell, cleveland, 31 Jan. 2022
• The campuses, often wrapped in scaffolding and chain link, can look like blight on a massive scale.
  — Curbed, 9 Jan. 2024
• There had been a blight on the farms in recent years, and from the resulting malnutrition, the mothers could not produce milk to feed their babes.
  — Ottessa Moshfegh, Harper’s Magazine , 25 May 2022
• Those glittering blue eyes of his seem incongruous with the shabbiness and blight of the movie’s high-risk, low-rent pool hall scene.
  — Wesley Morris, New York Times, 1 Dec. 2022
• The shoot blight fungus overwinters in diseased stems and twigs, so it can be pruned out to reduce new infections.
  — oregonlive, 28 May 2022
• Throughout the story, beetles tunnel through the woodwork; blight fells the trees; a catamount, referenced in rumor or song, stalks the patch.
  — Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2023
• His team would also need help to spread blight-resistant chestnuts across hundreds of miles of mountains.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 30 Aug. 2022
• Few threats are more damaging to a vineyard or citrus grove than a blight of sharpshooters.
  — Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American, 28 Feb. 2023
• But where others saw blight, Christian Strobel saw promise.
  — Sacramento Bee, 30 Jan. 2024
• Other members of the fungi family tree are less desirable and act as disease-causing pathogens that can disrupt ecosystems and blight human and animal health.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN, 2 Mar. 2024

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blight

2 of 2 verb

• Builders blighted the land with malls and parking lots.
• The project’s critics say the elevated 1.5-mile train line isn’t worth the cost and will blight the area.
  — Paul Berger, WSJ, 17 June 2021
• For weeks, my small town has been blighted by a thick, toxic smog.
  — Chris Rush, Harper's magazine, 19 Aug. 2019
• The one catalpa tree is either blighted or a late bloomer.
  — Lee Durkee, Harper's Magazine, 30 Mar. 2020
• And a country blighted by wanton disorder over the past decade braces for more of the same.
  — Time, 26 July 2023
• The bridge will replace a dark, low overpass over the boulevard that has been blamed for contributing to blight in the area.
  — Andres Viglucci, miamiherald, 12 May 2017
• And just the other side of Central Parkway was blighted.
  — Polly Campbell, Cincinnati.com, 30 June 2017
• One of the several dozen items on the agenda was the town’s blighted property list.
  — Emily Brindley, courant.com, 26 Sep. 2019
• That pretty much describes the 1970s beach house that used to blight the Wilmette shoreline.
  — Blair Kamin, chicagotribune.com, 31 July 2019
• The property has been sitting there blighted for a long time.
  — Kyra Senese, chicagotribune.com, 9 Apr. 2018
• Even the 21-7 victory over Pittsburgh was blighted by the brawl and the 6-game suspension to Myles Garrett.
  — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 8 Dec. 2019
• Those changes were a big upgrade from the surface parking lots that used to blight the ballpark’s western flank.
  — Blair Kamin, chicagotribune.com, 6 Apr. 2018
• Nor are you obligated to blight your own life in order to make hers less awful.
  — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2022
• The second was to open it in a neighborhood that was blighted, that did not see a lot of private investment.
  — Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 28 Aug. 2023
• Other parts of the state — and nation — were also blighted by hazardous AQI levels.
  — Alexandra E. Petri, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2023
• Woods has changed the face of golf since his breakthrough Masters win in 1997, but injuries and off-course problems have blighted the latter years of his career.
  — Jill Martin and Rosa Flores, CNN, 30 May 2017
• On the scale of people whose existence will be blighted by the Trump presidency, Clinton is nowhere near the top.
  — Michelle Goldberg, Slate Magazine, 7 Apr. 2017
• Citrus greening disease, which cuts yields and turns fruit bitter, has blighted the crop in past years.
  — Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2017
• But Larry's work in the neighborhood where Sharon grew up, which had been blighted by riots, was far from complete.
  — Erin Kelly, CBS News, 25 July 2019
• The hoped-for result is an almost-American chestnut that won’t succumb to blight.
  — Stephanie Pain, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Sep. 2020
• Two serious knee injuries have blighted his time in Italy.
  — Ciaran Fahey, chicagotribune.com, 10 June 2018
• The Teapot Dome scandal, named for the site in Wyoming, would forever blight Harding’s reputation.
  — Greg Daugherty, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Aug. 2023
• Dirt patches blight the sides of the spiraling Exelon Observatory on the trail's west end.
  — Blair Kamin, chicagotribune.com, 6 June 2017
• Wilshere's career has been blighted by injuries, but the Englishman has bounced back this season.
  — SI.com, 10 Feb. 2018
• Tiger Woods has changed the face of golf since his breakthrough Masters win in 1997, but injuries and off-course problems have blighted the latter years of his career.
  — CNN, 17 Oct. 2017
• In girlhood, then, Ruthie is not blighted by compassion.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Feb. 2022
• The Balkans are blighted by low growth and sky-high youth unemployment, and citizens vote with their feet.
  — The Economist, 13 July 2017
• The positive vibes weren’t washed away by the Sweden defeat, but those nagging fears that have blighted past campaigns were allowed to creep in again.
  — Martin Rogers, USA TODAY, 27 June 2018
• Not all see the graffiti as simply blight on the urban landscape, however.
  — Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 1 Feb. 2024
• These are the tiny, unseen agonies blighting ordinary, painful lives, as Putin’s war enters its third year.
  — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 23 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024