plague
noun
an epidemic disease that causes high mortality; pestilence.
will plague
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future tenseof plague.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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We get a taste of these Machiavels, who have none of the misgivings about vengeance that will plague Hamlet.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2026
She said losing her “Mammaw” will plague her for a very long time.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 5, 2022
Now we’re just in the land of “The Walking Dead,” where identical problems will plague characters for a decade, and we’re meant to see the protagonists’ obstinance as ethical rather than idiotic.
From New York Times ● Jul. 11, 2018
For those of us who had hoped to see Guantanamo disappear into history's rearview mirror, the events of this week show that the defining sins of Guantanamo will plague the camp indefinitely.
From Slate ● Jan. 6, 2010
Hodgson will plague you, I fear, with verse;—for my own part I will conclude, with Martial, nil recitabo tibi2; and surely the last inducement, is not the least.
From The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2 by Rowland Edmund Prothero, Baron Ernle
