How to Use scourge in a Sentence

scourge

noun

• The disease continues to be a scourge in the developing world.
• Yet his body count can’t even come close to the Oxycontin scourge.
  — Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 10 Aug. 2023
• It’s become a scourge, the cause of which seems to defy both rhyme and reason.
  — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2024
• The scourge of fentanyl has claimed the lives of five Bay Area infants or toddlers since 2020.
  — Scooty Nickerson, The Mercury News, 27 Feb. 2024
• The scourge would spread fast, but the progression of illness would be slow and subtle.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 1 Feb. 2024
• Their work, of course, will aim to prevent more loss of life as the US gun violence scourge drags on.
  — Ryan Young, CNN, 31 Mar. 2023
• Which is not to doubt the tenacity of the Swifties eager to tackle the scourge of AI nudes on her behalf.
  — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 25 Jan. 2024
• How the scourge of originalism is taking over the Supreme Court.
  — Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2022
• Retta’s old-school commitments are no match for the new scourge of RST.
  — Noah Berlatsky, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2023
• But even as the state’s landmark law took effect in 2021, the scourge of fentanyl was taking hold.
  — Mike Baker, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2024
• Homelessness is a scourge throughout the country, of course.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 14 May 2023
• On the other hand, this has allowed one scourge to rise above all the others to become the world’s largest cause of death: aging.
  — Andrew Steele, WIRED, 1 Jan. 2023
• Simple, reliable at-home tests might be one of our best weapons to fight the growing scourge.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 16 June 2023
• That could happen if more voters become aware of the scourge of child labor.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2023
• Career politicians of all stripes were the scourge of the 20th century & are doing their best to ruin the 21st so far as well.
  — Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 4 Dec. 2023
• What does victory over this fentanyl scourge and saving lives look like in the next year or two?
  — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 2 July 2023
• But now, a study from the University of Gothenburg adds a new level of urgency to the need to address the scourge.
  — Melissa Breyer, Treehugger, 4 May 2023
• Commuters have abandoned large swaths of a Los Angeles Metro train system plagued by crime and the scourge of drugs.
  — Kenya Romero, Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2023
• At every step, the actions have stirred debate over whether states are doing the right things to address the scourge of school shootings.
  — Andrew Demillo, Chron, 6 Sep. 2022
• How can the town work through its grief and confront a national scourge of gun violence?
  — Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 June 2023
• Companies have battled the scourge of meetings for decades.
  — Mia Gindis, Fortune, 12 July 2023
• Ringing the doorbell there, Carter summoned the commander, who filled in Gandhi on the scourge of fentanyl.
  — Doug Smith, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2023
• The ransomware scourge has hit a computer system at the US Marshals Service.
  — PCMAG, 28 Feb. 2023
• But New York’s history is cyclical, and a generation later, rampant crime is again the talk—and the scourge—of the town.
  — Edward Kosner, WSJ, 21 Nov. 2022
• One airline, though, is attempting to lessen the impact of that scourge on its passengers.
  — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 20 June 2023
• But that feeling quickly went away as doctors had to deal with the scourge itself, and with a public-health failure of actions.
  — Benjamin Mazer, The Atlantic, 17 Aug. 2022
• The roller coaster of weather temperatures this month to start the new year has not been helpful for curving the scourge of cold and cough season.
  — Philip Potempa, Chicago Tribune, 26 Jan. 2024
• The issue now is not the validity of the crackdown or the decision to free Salvadorans from the scourge of the criminal gangs.
  — Rafael Romo, CNN, 11 Mar. 2023
• The superstar has spoken out against this scourge once again, but this time, she’s done so in an unlikely manner.
  — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024
• Meta’s turn away from news and politics is partly to do with the scourge of online disinformation, but also because countries like Australia have started forcing it to pay news publishers for linking to their stories.
  — Alexandra Sternlicht, Fortune, 1 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024