How to Use blight in a Sentence

blight

1 of 2 noun

• Melton said blight is just one aspect of the city.
  — Carole Carlson, Chicago Tribune, 24 Feb. 2026
• 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 jail had been a blight on the city for more than a century.
  — James Verini, New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2026
• The church blight has lingered for years without a fix.
  — George Avalos, Mercury News, 5 Dec. 2025
• Some studied the blight fungus and looked for clues to how it could be stopped.
  — Eric J. Wallace, Outside, 24 Oct. 2025
• Flower blight or petal blight is also caused by a fungal pathogen.
  — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 1 Oct. 2025
• Set in the future, Earth has been struck by a global crop blight.
  — Regina G. Barber, NPR, 9 Sep. 2025
• There are two distinct types of tomato blight—early blight and late blight.
  — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 May 2023
• So if everyone hates the light blight, why do cities keep installing it?
  — Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2026
• Her year and a half on the board has opened her eyes to the weakness of city law in fighting blight.
  — Mercury News Editorial Board, Mercury News, 27 May 2026
• The city, under state law, must bring in a third party to conduct the blight study.
  — cleveland, 8 Feb. 2022
• Heat-loving crops like tomatoes get shielded from blight.
  — Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Kansas City Star, 1 Apr. 2026
• Boxwood blight, a fungus, appears in the form of blotchy, brown leaf spots.
  — Sophie Hartley, IndyStar, 25 Nov. 2025
• Adams pointed to an outbreak of blight among bur oaks across the Midwest.
  — Sarah Kaplan, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Aug. 2022
• Critics say the signs will distract drivers and create more blight.
  — Ryan Fonsecastaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 1 Feb. 2023
• With blight now in the rearview, the businesses have high hopes for a thriving future.
  — Bri Buckley, CBS News, 19 May 2026
• Growing hawthorns far away from apples and pears reduces blight issues.
  — Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 22 Oct. 2025
• 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
• If there are rust spots on the petals, the plant may be infected with Camellia petal blight.
  — Steve Bender, Southern Living, 28 Jan. 2024
• Late-summer diseases include powdery and downy mildew, blight, leaf spot, and root rot.
  — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 15 Aug. 2025
• The idea was to give downtown businesses a boost by removing signs of blight.
  — NBC News, 23 Jan. 2022
• Not every pine that has dead needles is infected with diplodia tip blight.
  — Beth Botts, Chicago Tribune, 4 Sep. 2022
• Attacking dog waste became an attack on blight.
  — Rachel Sugar, Curbed, 8 Apr. 2026
• Now that the blight is widespread, destruction is no longer necessary but there still is no cure.
  — Susan Brownstein, cleveland, 18 July 2023
• Then there are the hallmarks of urban blight — the windowless bars and the bars on the windows.
  — Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 18 Sep. 2025
• Summer jobs for teens, blight reduction, and green spaces have all been linked to lower crime rates.
  — Henry Grabar, The Atlantic, 21 Jan. 2026
• 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
• Few threats are more damaging to a vineyard or citrus grove than a blight of sharpshooters.
  — Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American, 28 Feb. 2023

blight

2 of 2 verb

• Builders blighted the land with malls and parking lots.
• They got rid of all that blighted track land.
  — AFAR Media, 15 May 2026
• For weeks, my small town has been blighted by a thick, toxic smog.
  — Chris Rush, Harper's magazine, 19 Aug. 2019
• We were only allowed to argue if this land was blighted or not.
  — Deborah Laverty, Chicago Tribune, 19 Feb. 2026
• Neither the corner nor the buildings to be torn down are blighted.
  — Joe Soucheray, Twin Cities, 20 Dec. 2025
• The property has been sitting there blighted for a long time.
  — Kyra Senese, chicagotribune.com, 9 Apr. 2018
• The road to recovery has been a long one, blighted by set backs and criticism.
  — Vitas Carosella, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025
• And a country blighted by wanton disorder over the past decade braces for more of the same.
  — Time, 26 July 2023
• Citrus greening disease, which cuts yields and turns fruit bitter, has blighted the crop in past years.
  — Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2017
• 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
• How was this considered blighted?
  — John Mannillo, Twin Cities, 29 Dec. 2025
• Tent encampments still blight cities, however, and many voters equate them with crime.
  — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2022
• Parts of downtown are blighted, as are other nearby areas.
  — Hector Amezcua, Sacbee.com, 4 Dec. 2025
• 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
• Neutrophils are linked to many diseases that blight our population.
  — Mitch Leslie, Science | AAAS, 5 Mar. 2020
• Football has been blighted by end-zone dances by players who are pleased with themselves for scoring touchdowns.
  — George Will, National Review, 30 Oct. 2019
• This year’s Nowruz celebrations have not only been blighted by war.
  — Leila Gharagozlou, CNN Money, 20 Mar. 2026
• 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
• Wind farms are even worse, blighting our natural landscape, slaughtering bats , birds, and maybe even whales.
  — Greg Autry, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2023
• Not all see the graffiti as simply blight on the urban landscape, however.
  — Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 1 Feb. 2024
• His task – to rebuild Hanceville’s force – is a mammoth effort, in a town blighted by betrayal.
  — Rob Picheta, CNN Money, 7 Feb. 2026
• Wilshere's career has been blighted by injuries, but the Englishman has bounced back this season.
  — SI.com, 10 Feb. 2018
• In some parts of the world shopping malls are being blighted as their customers move online and are served from vast warehouses instead.
  — The Economist, 26 Oct. 2017
• The Balkans are blighted by low growth and sky-high youth unemployment, and citizens vote with their feet.
  — The Economist, 13 July 2017
• That pretty much describes the 1970s beach house that used to blight the Wilmette shoreline.
  — Blair Kamin, chicagotribune.com, 31 July 2019
• The beautiful landscape is blighted with oversized parking signs; the parking lots tell their own story.
  — U T Readers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Jan. 2026
• So, who came up with the preposterous idea that Grand and Victoria is blighted?
  — Joe Soucheray, Twin Cities, 20 Dec. 2025
• 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
• The scourge of homelessness, an explosion of homelessness, blighting the city.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 14 May 2023
• The euphoria of scoring three goals in each half was somewhat blighted by the horrific injury to Koné.
  — Mark Hodge, NBC news, 19 June 2026