Plague in a sentence as a noun

Avoid ***** like ******* and heroin like the plague.

Am i the only one who thinks that SEO is more a plague then it is a real profession?

Make money, save as much as you can and avoid debt like plague, you already have enough stress in your life.

So, over the years I've played with many things that claim to be "declarative", and here's why I now shy away from them like the plague.

It will trigger media coverage and thousands of phone calls... politicians fear at least one of those two things like the plague.

Plague in a sentence as a verb

Europeans were almost wiped out by the plague and in modern times Africa has been decimated by HIV. These are real problems that the human race has faced and will likely face again, irrespective of lab-created stuff.

It's nice to know the US is trying to fight the worldwide plague of internet censorship and monitoring, DNS spoofing, and unilateral site shutdowns.

When you coddle lazy or bad developers, you end up breeding an entire crop of developers who end up creating terrible legacy systems that will plague us for years to come.

Each time, on getting released, I am reminded that either "the foreigners" or "the Brazilians" are unleashing a biblical plague of bike thefts on Ogaki and that I should be careful to double lock it to avoid becoming the latest victim.

Plague definitions

noun

a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal

See also: pestilence pest pestis

noun

any epidemic disease with a high death rate

See also: pestilence pest

noun

a swarm of insects that attack plants; "a plague of grasshoppers"

See also: infestation

noun

any large scale calamity (especially when thought to be sent by God)

noun

an annoyance; "those children are a damn plague"

verb

cause to suffer a blight; "Too much rain may blight the garden with mold"

See also: blight

verb

annoy continually or chronically; "He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked"; "This man harasses his female co-workers"