Plague has 1 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable.
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| 1. | In "A Journal of the Plague Year," a 1772 fictionalized account of London's Great Plague of 1665, Daniel Defoe notes that people were quick to turn to quacks and peddlers offering "Sovereign cordials against the corruption of the air." | |
| 2. | Plague doctors treated victims of the bubonic plague. | |
| 3. | “Plague caused a shock to the economy of the Italian peninsula that might have been key in starting its relative decline compared with the emerging northern European countries,” noted Italian historian Guido Alfani in an academic paper on the impact of the 17th century plague. | |
| 4. | Rats carry the plague. | |
| 5. | More often than not, famine is accompanied by plague. | |
| 6. | The plague occurred that year. | |
| 7. | So far no less than 100 people have died of the plague. | |
| 8. | Thousands of people died during the plague. | |
| 9. | I'm the type that avoids risk like the plague. | |
| 10. | A worldwide plague of theft emptied museums. |