Sample Sentences for
blight
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    What a terrible blight that would be on the heart of a free, intelligent father!  (source)
    blight = cause of extensive damage
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    A blight seemed to have descended on her.  (source)
    blight = something bad
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    Poor little blighter!  (source)
    blighter = someone who is damaged
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    Well, said Samuel, silence struck the gathering like a blight.  (source)
    blight = something that causes extensive damage
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    That summer, the summer of 1918, was blighted.†  (source)
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    The spent oxygen bottles blighting the South Col have been accumulating since the 1950s, but thanks to an ongoing litter-removal Program instigated in 1994 by Scott Fischer's Sagar matha Environmental Expedition, there are fewer of them up there now than there used to be.†  (source)
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    It was his crooked lower-case 'a' that hung the blighter, Inspector.†  (source)
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    Mars has no insects, parasites, or blights to deal with, and the Hab maintains perfect growing temperature and moisture at all times.†  (source)
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    Tendrils unblighted!†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unblighted means not and reverses the meaning of blighted. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    As I sat nursing these reflections, the casement behind me was banged on to the floor by a blow from the latter individual, and his black countenance looked blightingly through.†  (source)
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    I am going over to Senator Whitworth's house myself and telling him you, Skeeter Phelan, will be a blight on his campaign in Washington.  (source)
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    We've been so busy trying to rewrite our own pasts, we've blighted their present.†  (source)
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    But now that I consider it, you ought to throw them away or destroy them, rather than blighting another.†  (source)
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