Scourge has 1 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable.
| # | Sentence | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Empowered, informed citizens are the scourge of any tyrant. | |
| 2. | In our fight against drug abuse we shall be committing a serious mistake if we begin to admit that it is a 'lost war' and that, for hypocritically economically-based questions, it is not worthwhile investing enough money to deal with the size of this scourge. | |
| 3. | As far as I understand despite my limited knowledge, here in Venezuela we must adapt to the prevailing mentality and social order. Therefore, an individual must live among opportunism, poverty, manipulation and superficiality. It might be a very characteristic Latino idiosyncrasy to behave as in the book "Chronicle of a Death Foretold" by Gabriel García Márquez when it comes to dealing with delicate situations. Everybody knows what's happening, but nobody raises his voice and even if somebody did, nobody would support him. Only enlightenment through education could end the ignorance that is a scourge on our people, from which many other problems arise. However, it's unlikely to expect a government to propose to spread values that threaten its own interests, because it's better for them to keep society ignorant in order to manipulate it with ease. | |
| 4. | They heard that a Seven-Headed Dragon was ravaging the neighbouring kingdom, and that the king had promised his daughter's hand to anyone that would free the land from this scourge. | |
| 5. | Algeria should eradicate the terrorism scourge. | |
| 6. | Algeria is now free of the terrorist scourge. | |
| 7. | In Algerian schools, children are taught how to cut the throat of a sheep and how to wash the dead. Of course no mixing between boys and girls is allowed. The Kabyles have been fighting this scourge for a long time but without any success. |