How to Use blighted in a Sentence

blighted

adjective

• The Toll: Mayor Joe Hogsett says he's fixed 2,500 blighted homes.
  — James Briggs, Indianapolis Star, 3 July 2019
• That blighted building would be razed to make way for the new apartments.
  — Tom Daykin, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 31 Oct. 2019
• Paul Fireman saw the chance to change the blighted landscape’s legacy, and leave one of his own.
  — David Meeks, USA TODAY, 26 Sep. 2017
• The bottom line is that things are looking up for the blighted landscape that is bond land.
  — Larry Light, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2022
• If that happens, the few places that manage to hold on will be stuck in a blighted and empty mall.
  — Ryan Kost, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Mar. 2021
• How on this blighted earth is the subway still running?
  — Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2024
• Duggan promised to eliminate the city's blighted structures by the end of his term in 2025.
  — Detroit Free Press, 30 Mar. 2023
• At the crux of the lawsuit is a debate over what qualifies as blighted.
  — Shayndi Raice, WSJ, 11 July 2019
• The city bought 10 acres of what had been the site of a drive-in movie theater, a blighted grocery store and the surrounding parking lot.
  — Lynn Thompson, The Seattle Times, 12 Sep. 2017
• This time, the Gills bought and are renovating two blighted Italianates built in the 1860s that stand side-by-side on the east side of Lawrence Street.
  — Kenneth R. Gosselin, courant.com, 11 Oct. 2019
• Amherst will place the homes on vacant lots or sites of blighted properties.
  — Mitchell Parton, Dallas News, 5 May 2023
• There has been research into the effects on home values when there's a blighted house on a block.
  — Lee Schafer, Star Tribune, 30 May 2021
• Her main concern is the vacant and blighted building next to her shop at 3844 Broadway.
  — Carrie Napoleon, Chicago Tribune, 18 Apr. 2023
• In the 2000s, the city sought to aggressively purchase and raze blighted structures.
  — Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 14 July 2024
• In this case a great company wanted to be there and was ready to offer solid jobs in a blighted area, and New York punches the gift horse in the mouth!
  — Wsj Staff, WSJ, 14 Feb. 2019
• An appraisal on file with the city for the development argues the block full or 100-year-old houses is blighted.
  — Allison Kite, kansascity, 10 Apr. 2018
• The two men forced the couple to drive to a blighted area underneath the Franklin Avenue overpass, police said, where Simeon shot Martes once in the head.
  — Marie Simoneaux, NOLA.com, 22 Jan. 2018
• Today, the city’s downtown is a patchwork of blighted storefronts.
  — Debra Kamin, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2023
• The blighted area was in danger of being razed and developed for urban renewal by the City of Ashland in the 1960s.
  — oregonlive, 30 Oct. 2020
• Evict them and the land bank could add to the city's homeless population and its enormous stock of vacant and blighted buildings.
  — Jennifer Dixon, Detroit Free Press, 26 Apr. 2018
• The city razed a number of blighted buildings in the neighborhood in the 1990s in an effort to revitalize the region.
  — Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 20 May 2024
• Across the street was an immense complex ringed by balconies painted a blighted orange and green.
  — Elisabeth Zerofsky, The New Yorker, 12 July 2019
• Even the most blighted terrain can recover and return to wilderness in time.
  — Jonathon Keats, Discover Magazine, 2 Oct. 2020
• Back home, there were blighted starts and an ectopic pregnancy.
  — Matthew Klam, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2020
• Police Chief James Craig believes the women could have been lured into blighted houses, raped and killed.
  — Fox News, 8 June 2019
• His sister, Nancy, set off to see what had happened at the blighted house on the outskirts of Montgomery, Alabama.
  — Umar Farooq, ProPublica, 28 Dec. 2023
• In 2014, Schreiber built a new headquarters on the site of a former shopping mall that had become a blighted property, a block from the Fox River.
  — Rick Barrett, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 Oct. 2017
• Nearly 50 years ago, the Lauderhill Point apartments were built to bring safe, affordable housing to a blighted stretch of what is now Lauderhill.
  — Andrew Boryga, sun-sentinel.com, 23 Nov. 2020
• Cleaning up these blighted areas is a crucial step toward making San Jose a more vibrant and thriving city.
  — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 23 Sep. 2024
• The big picture: The solar program is an effort by the city to clean up blighted areas and offset municipal greenhouse gas emissions.
  — Annalise Frank, Axios, 24 July 2024

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024