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
• As world wars have raged and epidemics have ravaged, as Detroit has become renowned for stoves and then cars and then blight, the American elm's base has spread and its crown has risen.
  — Neal Rubin, Detroit Free Press, 7 July 2022
• Vornado declined to comment about blight in the Penn Station area, citing the lawsuit.
  — Patrick McGeehan Benjamin Norman, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2022

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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
• Tent encampments still blight cities, however, and many voters equate them with crime.
  — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2022
• Not all see the graffiti as simply blight on the urban landscape, however.
  — Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 1 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 6 May 2024