8 sentences with 'plague'
Example sentences and phrases with the word plague and other words derived from it.
• « The most devastating was the famous "Black Death". It came in two forms: bubonic plague and pneumonic plague. »
• « Judah was spared in part because of a plague that struck the Assyrian army, but still ended up a tributary of the Assyrians, paying annual tribute and answering to an Assyrian official. »
• « In 542, during the Italian campaign, a horrible plague (the "Plague of Justinian") killed half the population of Constantinople and a third of the population of the empire as a whole. This had an obvious impact on military recruitment and morale. »
• « The plague devastated the affected areas, none more so than in Europe. This devastation was largely due to the vulnerability of the European population to the disease, thanks to both poor harvests and a lack of medical know-how. »
• « When the plague came in 1348, generations of people were malnourished and therefore more susceptible to infection. »
• « Disease had always been the greatest threat to humanity before the 19th century - of the "four horsemen of the apocalypse", it was plague that traditionally delivered the most bodies to death. »