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 embrace of short termism plays into the arguments of those who say too much short-term thinking has been a scourge on the economy.
  — James MacKintosh, WSJ, 3 Nov. 2022
• In a year like 2023, when the tick scourge is at or near its worst, every little bit of advice can help spare you—and your pets—from suffering and disease.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 20 June 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024