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Example sentences for "plagued"

Lexicographically close words:
plagiarized; plagiary; plagioclase; plagis; plague; plagues; plaguey; plaguily; plaguing; plaguy
  1. Very well, then, the desert is good fer nuthin' else but mineral wealth, and Providence made it so plagued hard ter git at so that everyone couldn't git rich at oncet.

  2. People plagued and teased him, but that was in a way good for him, as he was so anxious to become rich.

  3. They will have to live in poor old cottages and wear old, patched clothes; the others will always be plagued and worried, and dragged down and humbled by poverty.

  4. He went there several times in our absence, and saw how pitifully and miserably the poor woman was plagued and tormented by the evil spirit.

  5. The economy continues to have a high unemployment rate of 30% because of an overdependence on the weather-plagued banana crop as a major export earner.

  6. No other sector has experienced such growth, especially not that of the agricultural sector, which is plagued by erratic rainfall and poor soils.

  7. The economy has been plagued by high rates of unemployment since the late 1970s.

  8. Having thrown the newspapers aside with a disdainful gesture, he rose and stretched himself, growling the while like a plagued lion.

  9. She was well aware of this; however, she liked to tease them in return for the manner in which they themselves plagued her.

  10. Really, I don't know why I should have been plagued with such a charge.

  11. Is it my fault that I am plagued with a stepdaughter of so extraordinary a temperament?

  12. You have not been plagued with apparitions, General?

  13. Again, another lady, apparently in vigorous health, and belonging to a vigorous family, told me that during some past months she had been plagued by voices.

  14. One statesman has assured me that a certain hesitation in utterance which he has at times, is due to his being plagued by the image of his manuscript speech with its original erasures and corrections.

  15. I was plagued to death by the people, and I vowed I would not take it out again be the weather what it might.

  16. For myself I was much plagued by the women, who all admire my beard; not, certainly, my red nose, which is terribly scorched and peeled by the sun.

  17. The poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, Haiti has been plagued by political violence for most of its history.

  18. Togo has come under fire from international organizations for human rights abuses and is plagued by political unrest.

  19. This makes Tyburn the Metropolitan, and other petty Gallowses, have so many hangers on; and this is the cause so many such Citizens sons are plagued after their fathers deaths, as their fathers when living have plagued others.

  20. Which first ill lucke will I recite, then iudge you plaine, If loue plagued me not now rightly this yeare to goe againe.

  21. At what time this aforesaide money was payde, and the hostages giuen for the ransome of the King, I haue an olde historie which saith, that the aforesaid Duke of Austridge was shortly after plagued by God; with 5.

  22. Then again he would be plagued with despair, at some impertinence or coquetry of his mistress.

  23. Nevertheless, following decades of mismanagement and statist policies, the economy in the late 1980s was plagued with huge external debts and recurring bouts of hyperinflation.

  24. The sector is plagued by erratic rainfall and poor soils.

  25. But when one is absent-minded and distracted, it is intensely annoying to be plagued with endless questions and changes of mood about mere nothings.

  26. I repeat that I have never been plagued by visions, but actual objects sometimes seem to me to assume a human shape in a grandiose style.

  27. They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued like other men.

  28. I sent Moses also and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt, according to that which I did among them: and afterward I brought you out.

  29. And the LORD plagued the people, because they made the calf, which Aaron made.

  30. And the LORD plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai Abram's wife.

  31. But your father is a great scholar, and must not be plagued with such matters.

  32. But then, if she saw she had pleased you too much, the little witch was never easy till she had plagued you again.

  33. I could have allowed them to set Clod in the Tree, to have scared the Sportsmen, plagued the Justice, and employed honest Teague with his holy Water.

  34. I'm tired of huntin' spirits, and I dunno but what we'd better move traps and leave this plagued place to 'em.

  35. These plagued Injins sometimes live in one place and sometimes in another, you know, and it may be that a notion has just entered their heads to come and live in these parts.

  36. But I have long thought Mr. Bertram one of the worst subjects to work on, in any little manoeuvre against common sense, that a woman could be plagued with.

  37. He went away to his regiment two days ago, and I trust I shall never be plagued with him again.

  38. Was she as much plagued as herself to get tolerable servants?

  39. They are not in trouble as other men, neither are they plagued like other men" (Psa.

  40. Thou also shalt be counted holy unto God, through Christ, if thou be of an upright conversation; though plagued every day with the working of thine own corruption.

  41. They are not in trouble as other men, neither are they plagued like other men.

  42. There is a man that is plagued with many sins, perhaps because he embraceth one: well, let him turn that one out of doors, and that is the way to be rid of the rest.

  43. Besides, some are more plagued with the sense of the greatness of their sins than others are; the devil having placed or fixed the great sting there.

  44. They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued like other men" (Psa 73:9).

  45. His imagination plagued him with a sense of guilt, which his master's watchfulness of him increased.

  46. An idea that his daughters had possibly sent her to herald one of the renowned physicians of London, concerning whom he was perpetually being plagued by them, or to lead him to one, flashed through Mr. Pole.

  47. Nick can't think of anything but eating; and those plagued old wings he misplaced somewhere just before we started on this run.

  48. It will take a practical machinist to overhaul the plagued contraption.

  49. That would keep me from being present when that plagued will is read, and I'd lose my share of uncle's money.

  50. I warned George that sooner or later it would shake the plagued boat to pieces," declared Herb.

  51. Just you drop that plagued cook book overboard the first chance you get, and take a few lessons from Josh.

  52. Bridget plagued Leslie, but Leslie would not injure Bridget,--no, not for the world.

  53. Once when he was gayer than his wont, and plagued her with his jesting petting, she took up the scissors and cut off a lock of his hair.

  54. I render perfect justice to the President, that hitherto he has not plagued us; but we have also abstained from all interference.

  55. We are very much plagued by our Treaty with France.


  56. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "plagued" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.