Blighting in a sentence

In February, he faced a backlash for laying into ‘savages’, ‘scroats’ and ‘scumbags,’ blighting Stoke-on-Trent.

A councillor is ‘sick to death’ of seeing rubbish blighting town neighbourhoods.

After her selection in November, the Ms Kitchen said: "Residents here are already telling me that they're fed up with the state of the town centre, anti-social behaviour blighting our high streets and the 8am scramble for a GP appointment.

It also found that more than half of phoneboxes are likely to be “blighting” the UK’s streets; in one central London study of 64 phone boxes, 38 were either in disrepair, non-operational, or both.

Laura Thompson, 52, who has lived in the quaint hamlet of Bardfield Saling with her husband Adam, 54, for the last six years, said: 'The Sheikh of Dubai is blighting people's lives across the country.

Police have routinely planted drugs, guns, and other evidence to incriminate innocent people, while police labs have engaged in wholesale fraud blighting tens of thousands of lives.

The anti-graft agency is blighting Nigeria’s democracy.

And Dame Esther Rantzen, who presented the BBC series That's Life! for 21 years, joined in. She believes that by working together, we can put an end to the sight of litter blighting our natural world.

Sentencing Judge Tina Landale told Taylor: 'This is a serious offence because cannabis use is growing in this country blighting people's lives.

And as Aldergrove is Northern Ireland’s main gateway to the outside world, having its largest airline continually operate with significant delays is in effect blighting the airport – and by extension, Northern Ireland’s economy.

In a city beset by utility poles, vaults and advertising kiosks placed in the middle of sidewalks and a proliferation of surface lots blighting downtown, it's a little hard to take these complaints seriously.

The exterior of every premises and structure shall be maintained in good repair, to the end that the premises and each structure thereon will be preserved; adjoining properties protected from blighting influences; and safety and fire hazards eliminated.

The slimes the party encounters are only the first part of what becomes a series of monsters and terrible occurrences that are blighting the Empire and laying it to waste.