scourges 1 of 2

plural of scourge

scourges

2 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of scourge

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of scourges
Noun
At the film’s outset, Inez kidnaps her young son Terry from foster care shortly after her release from prison, and A Thousand and One chronicles her attempt to parent despite the scourges of abuse, police brutality and systemic racism. Emma Specter, Vogue, 18 Oct. 2025 Individualism, selfishness—these are scourges for your team’s success. Don Yaeger, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025 First each member, in turn, would prostrate himself while the others, marching in a circle, stepped over him and struck him with their scourges. Michael Robbins, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025 The vaccination schedule for infants and children has been updated throughout the years as new shots become available, offering better protection against childhood scourges. Andrea Kane, CNN Money, 19 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for scourges
Noun
  • WASP-39b is about the size of Saturn and whips around its sunlike star once every four days; that broiling orbit heats the planet’s dayside to 1,430 degrees Fahrenheit (776 degrees Celsius).
    Nola Taylor Tillman, Scientific American, 13 Oct. 2025
  • But Siepierski also concluded that the mansion probably was a brothel, based on what the neighbors said and the volume of racy lingerie, high heels, leather, whips and correspondence.
    Frank Witsil, Freep.com, 9 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The Nevermore kids soon encounter their ideal nemeses in a troop of normie paramilitary Boy Scout types who’ve reserved the camp for the same days.
    Judy Berman, Time, 6 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The source of a zombie outbreak can come from anywhere, including ancient curses and meteorites from space.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 17 Oct. 2025
  • That mindset leads to no shortage of delightfully blasé supernatural adventures rife with magic and curses.
    Abby Monteil, Them., 15 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • However, as a geostorm ravages Earth, Athena and Hen’s space mission teeters on the edge.
    Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 23 Oct. 2025
  • As extreme heat ravages New York City this summer, the lives of thousands detained on Rikers Island hang in the balance.
    Darren Mack, New York Daily News, 4 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Incarceration often hides in plain sight.
    PhotoVogue, Vogue, 25 Oct. 2025
  • The scene from Badlands hangs over the songwriting like a dark cloud; Spacek’s bedroom in the scene looks quite a bit like the bedroom in which the young Springsteen hides from his own angry father.
    Sadie Sartini Garner, Pitchfork, 24 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • So there's going to be people, vigilantes, superheroes that are involved in that.
    Mekishana Pierre, Entertainment Weekly, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Armed with clubs and pistols, vigilantes went door to door, herding more than three hundred men, women, and children through the streets and out of town.
    Beth Lew-Williams, New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • With increasing space traffic from various nations and private companies, keeping tabs on potential collisions and threats becomes crucial.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Oct. 2025
  • That marked a significant cooling of tensions, after a recent volley of tariff threats and fresh export curbs threatened to derail the bilateral relationship.
    Bloomberg, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Each participant had lost central vision in one eye due to dry AMD, which destroys light-sensitive macular cells over time.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 20 Oct. 2025
  • An arson fire destroys the 43-year-old Globe Theatre on March 8 (the arsonist was never caught, but a firebug had set several blazes in the park that winter).
    Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Oct. 2025

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“Scourges.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scourges. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.

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