Sample sentences for BLACK DEATH

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a phrase used in the Middle Ages to describe a plague which is estimated to have killed one to two thirds of Europe's population between 1347 and 1350

Yersinia pestis—Bubonic plague, Black death, pest—is an overwhelming infection by bacteria that produce potent toxins.
Geraldine Brooks -- Year of Wonders

Imagine a virus with the infectiousness of influenza and the mortality rate of the black plague in the Middle Ages—that's what we're talking about."
Richard Preston -- The Hot Zone
Aphra had tried to mask the dead, black Plague flesh with some kind of chalky paste.
Geraldine Brooks -- Year of Wonders
Now mice, however small or harmless, are rats to me—snarling, needle-fanged wharf inhabitants whose fleas carry the black death and whose bite is rabid.
Pat Conroy -- The Water is Wide
This was the same kind of fatality rate as was seen with the black plague during the Middle Ages.
Richard Preston -- The Hot Zone
On the television screen the maps looked as though they were plotting a black plague methodically working its way east.
Ted Dekker -- BoneMan's Daughters
Dr. Isaacson did everything she could to save Mayinga, but she was as helpless before the agent as medieval doctors had been in the face of the black plague.
Richard Preston -- The Hot Zone
To have heard him asking Sondelius about his experience in plague epidemics, one would have believed that Martin found the Black Death delightful.
Sinclair Lewis -- Arrowsmith
I think of smallpox as something out of the Middle Ages, like the Black Plague.
Pat Frank -- Alas, Babylon
I guess I'm the Black Death," he said slowly.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Tender is the Night
Some call him the Killer, some call him Black Death—he has a whole string of names like that.
Hal Borland -- When the Legends Die
She'd rather have the Black Death than be embarrassed.
Kenneth Oppel -- Airborn
You sound like you're down with the Black Death."
Donna Tartt -- The Goldfinch
I don't buy the gold eyeshadow, but I do pick up a bottle of Black Death nail polish.
Laurie Halse Anderson -- Speak
Written by an anonymous mystic, I'm not sure, fourteenth century maybe, whenever the Black Death was—he was writing in the days of the Black Death.
Don DeLillo -- Underworld
The majority of students avoided his sections like the Black Death.
Robert M. Pirsig -- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
But, before leaving the pulpit, he would like to tell them of something he had been reading in an old chronicle of the Black Death at Marseille.
Albert Camus -- The Plague
If it were possible to run from disease spirits, the medieval Europeans would've put on their track shoes and escaped the Black Death.
Rick Riordan -- The Hidden Oracle
Do you think that they, with their Battles, Famine, Black Death and Serfdom, were less enlightened than we are, with our Wars, Blockade, Influenza and Conscription?
T. H. White -- The Once and Future King
Did you know that during Shakespeare's time almost a third of the people who lived in London died one year from something called the Black Plague?" she asked the class.
Sampon Davis, et. al. -- We Beat the Street

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