Use "blighted" in a sentence
blighted example sentences
blighted
1. dilapidated and failing, locked into the decline that blighted so
2. Lives blighted by either crime happening to them or being perpetrated by them
3. sort of thing that cheers an already blighted soul
4. Blighted wheat, overshadowed by the height of the cedars, whose shadows are long, whose roots grow wide
5. Then, with grief in his eyes and voice, he said to me very distinctly, “I blighted every life I touched
6. with intermittent dozing blighted by terrible dreams that left her
7. But the happy occasion was soon blighted with the news that Bernadette had found a lump in her breast and that on examination it was found to be cancerous
8. “Read the Grimoire of the Blighted Void and you will learn why there are no more dragons
9. the occupation of this blighted kingdom
10. These blighted should indeed be
11. undeveloped rather than blighted
12. ‘Members of the United Nations stood for a minute’s silence at their headquarters in New York as a mark of respect for an iconic African leader, whose humility and honesty remain a guiding light for contemporary leaders on a continent still blighted by the tribalism and internecine strife that he stood against
13. If that is his greatest gift to it, the nation, it was bought at the cost of millions of blighted lives
14. much less of the blighted blood
15. It’s high time that America invest its money for high returns instead of throwing it away in crime centers and blighted neighborhoods
16. has blighted the old, weed-free, fertile fields of my mind
17. More than half of the homes in blighted neighborhoods had
18. She did not agree when he alluded to the waiter as blighted
19. This food is aimed for the thousands of Greek families blighted by the genocidal policies of the memorandum,” the party’s spokesman told the BBC reporter, alluding to the loan agreement Athens had sighed with international creditors
20. Anembryonic pregnancy also known as blighted ovum, it happens when a
21. Until Telly moved into his double bed with Sheri and Sam"s cot went into the empty, third room of our second floor lest she blighted the reunion
22. Sanitizing the region you live in: turning it into a sanitized desert, a dead blighted destroyed area where all living things have been killed, an antiseptic insane desolation of all Nature
23. It is time to blow the lid off all of the lies that blighted living humans have lived under, and in
24. "The haven I was looking for has been blighted
25. went across the blighted lands, they grew and
26. The blighted lands were blighted no more for love had
27. are relative, and if my childhood was not totally blighted, it was at least different
28. radiations that have blighted my sisters across the other planets
29. He sat by a newly-lighted wood fire (the blighted and unfruitful year was prematurely cold), and on his honest and courageous face there was a deeper shade than the pendent lamp could throw, or any object in the room distortedly reflect--a shade of horror
30. The stately residence of Monseigneur was altogether blighted and deserted
31. Laurence struck while the iron was hot, and before the blighted being recovered spirit enough to rebel, they were off
32. He felt that his blighted affections were quite dead now, and though he should never cease to be a faithful mourner, there was no occasion to wear his weeds ostentatiously
33. He had only been waiting till the aforesaid blighted affections were decently interred
34. "All, all is against me; she has blighted my single consolation
35. "Or," said Estella,—"which is a nearer case,—if you had taught her, from the dawn of her intelligence, with your utmost energy and might, that there was such a thing as daylight, but that it was made to be her enemy and destroyer, and she must always turn against it, for it had blighted you and would else blight her;—if you had done this, and then, for a purpose, had wanted her to take naturally to the daylight and she could not do it, you would have been disappointed and angry?"
36. She presently rose from her seat, and looked about the blighted room for the means of writing
37. But as before the lightning the serried stormclouds, heavy with preponderant excess of moisture, in swollen masses turgidly distended, compass earth and sky in one vast slumber, impending above parched field and drowsy oxen and blighted growth of shrub and verdure till in an instant a flash rives their centres and with the reverberation of the thunder the cloudburst pours its torrent, so and not otherwise was the transformation, violent and instantaneous, upon the utterance of the word
38. His colleagues looked at him, and doubtless pitied his prospects, blighted under the perfumed breath of a woman
39. Hester gazed after him a little while, looking with a half-fantastic curiosity to see whether the tender grass of early spring would not be blighted beneath him, and show the wavering track of his footsteps, sere and brown, across its cheerful verdure
40. If he made the wrong decision, Caris’ s new cloth-manufacturing enterprise would be blighted, her father
41. Aloysius Lana would be found lying dead in his study, and there would be an end of an unfortunate fellow, and of a blighted career
42. Thereafter the machine produced THE FOOL LEAPS FROM THE CLIFF, BUT THE WINTER LAKE BELOW IS FROZEN, followed by the even more ominous THE ORCHARD OF BLIGHTED TREES PRODUCES POISONOUS FRUIT
43. In all her sheltered life she had some romantic sorrow had blighted his life and made him hard and bitter, and she felt never seen evil and could scarcely credit its existence, and when gossip whispered things about Rhett and the girl in Charleston she was shocked and unbelieving
44. Why had it been kept from him? (And by whom, really? Mercer couldn’t claim not to have noticed the elasticity of his lover’s funds, funds as deep as underground springs, and possibly as inexhaustible, or not to have gotten the distinct feeling at times that William had settled in the blighted old factory building in the West Forties not out of poverty, but out of spite
45. She was still going over to NYU to use the darkroom, academic standing be damned, and watching those proofs dry—train-trestle murals, charred mailboxes, knotted Chucks festooning the blighted elms—she tried to convince herself he was right
46. But he was in gloomy rebellion against the fact that his quick apprehensiveness foreshadowed to him, and when his eyes fell on Rosamond's blighted face it seemed to him that he was the more pitiable of the two; for pain must enter into its glorified life of memory before it can turn into compassion
47. If they had been at all visibly blighted or battered, she would doubtless have grown, on tracing it back, haggard enough to match them; as matters stood, however, I could feel her, when she surveyed them, with her large white arms folded and the habit of serenity in all her look, thank the Lord's mercy that if they were ruined the pieces would still serve
48. blighted as it was by many sorrows
49. Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Federal Reserve, blamed a corporate culture blighted by “infectious greed” for the breakdown in investor confidence
50. The problem wasn’t confined to the West: Excessive drinking blighted the whole country