A plague of grasshoppers. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The only fish concoction I avoid like the plague is any piscine soup dish. From Wordnik.com. [notes from the peanut gallery] Reference
Last Man, the plague is specifically constructed as. From Wordnik.com. [Critics on The Last Man, plague, and AIDS] Reference
Where a plague is that lazy shote of a boy? he repeated. From Wordnik.com. [Oldtown Folks] Reference
I KNEW IT! that dam Columbian gave you the frikin plague!. From Wordnik.com. [EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Status Update…] Reference
Report thatbob - Bubonic plague is totally treatable, though!. From Wordnik.com. [The mysteries of rabies Boing Boing] Reference
After all, plague is one of the diseases that can be weaponized. From Wordnik.com. [Medpundit] Reference
And maybe early in the next but not too much cos the plague is scary. From Wordnik.com. [Countdown to Branded By Fire: 5 Days to Go!] Reference
But you'd think we had the plague from the way that people keep avoiding. From Wordnik.com. [Look, He Made A Hat: Sondheim Talks Sondheim] Reference
Global warming, like war, famine, and plague, is not a conspiracy to limit population. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Utah state representative claims climate change is a ‘conspiracy’ aimed at population control.] Reference
At the end, the plague is over, the nightmare has dissipated, the city has returned to health. From Wordnik.com. [Transcending God] Reference
The local officials claim the plague is still raging as a way of controlling access to the city. From Wordnik.com. [Think of the children : Bev Vincent] Reference
The plague is a bot which infests the intestines of the animals and kills them off in thousands. From Wordnik.com. [Janey Canuck in the West] Reference
It was a relevant film for me, a story about the heroin plague that has taken over East Downtown. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2003-09-01] Reference
The story of Professor Moriarty and his connection to London†™ s undead plague is revealed!. From Wordnik.com. [DC Comics for February 2010 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News] Reference
The government tried other things: they quarantined people in plague zones, just like a bad horror movie. From Wordnik.com. [365 tomorrows » 2009 » February : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day] Reference
The Lancet figure of 98k, which weak-kneed folk like to avoid like the plague, is the best estimate we have. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » National Review’s Kurtz: The Goal in Iraq is ‘Proof of Resolve Against Iran’ Not ‘Peace and Democracy’] Reference
The plague is now in progress -- it is useless closing one's eyes to the fact -- the deaths encrease each week. From Wordnik.com. [II.6] Reference
In 1363, one of those contagious diseases, all at that time called the plague, committed cruel ravages in France. From Wordnik.com. [A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 2] Reference
The word plague, now confined to the pestilence, does not express the meaning of the original, and tends to mislead. From Wordnik.com. [Barnes New Testament Notes] Reference
Thinking the inescapable pothole plague is more important than our future quality of life truly is staring at the ground. From Wordnik.com. [A Progressive on the Prairie » Suffering from pothole perspective » Print] Reference
At the start, a nasty plague is turning people into fungus, Hook escapes into a ship and saves some others, abusing them all the way. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-03-01] Reference
The donor of the "plague" - apparently a spelling mistake - is recorded as one PCA de Souza. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
"Why, what the plague is the matter?" rejoined Lydyard. From Wordnik.com. [Old Saint Paul's A Tale of the Plague and the Fire] Reference
"What the plague is the matter?" asked Sir Norman, coming forward. From Wordnik.com. [The Midnight Queen] Reference
Her grandmother says the causes of the plague are a mystery to her. From Wordnik.com. [10 Million Orphans] Reference
The cattle plague, which is creating so much anxiety throughout the. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American, Volume 40, No. 13, March 29, 1879 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures] Reference
Great fears we have that the plague will be a great Bill this weeke. From Wordnik.com. [Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete] Reference
A plague was the one he chose, and it resulted in the loss of 70,000. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
So the plague is a much less deadly weapon because there is a treatment for it. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 15, 2003] Reference
The plague is a cancerous formation of luxury growing out of a root of pauperism. From Wordnik.com. [Moral Philosophy] Reference
One immediate result of the plague was a renewed activity in founding religious houses. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377)] Reference
In 1564, the year of the Poet's birth, a malignant fever, called the plague, invaded Stratford. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England] Reference
By my death I purchase thee -- lo! the instruments of war, fire, the plague are my servitors. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Man] Reference
But because the plague is a disease that still exists in this country, labs have to have samples of it. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 15, 2003] Reference
In Greece, the president has called the plague of forest fires a national catastrophe and a national tragedy. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 28, 2007] Reference
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